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Palm oil companies, NGOs endorse new deforestation-limiting toolkit
2015-04-07 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Forests not only house many of the world's species, but also much of its carbon. Now, a toolkit has been developed by a group of companies and organizations with the aim of helping other companies and NGOs identify High Carbon Stock (HCS) forests. The toolkit was endorsed last week by major NGOs and plantation companies in Singapore. Today, there is more CO2 in the atmosphere than at any other time in human history, contributing to a plethora of global changes from rising and acidifying seas to...
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Aceh's purge of illegal oil palm at 3,000 hectares and counting
2015-04-06 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A joint effort to eradicate illegal oil palm in an area of Indonesia's Aceh province that was devastated by flash flooding in 2006 has dismantled 3,000 hectares worth of plantations and counting. The plantations lie within the protected Leuser Ecosystem (KEL), the last place on earth where the Sumatran rhino, elephant, tiger and orangutan coexist in the wild. "This is being done to protect the people of Aceh Tamiang from ecological disaster," said Rudi Putra, head of HAkA, a local NGO. In...
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Grassroots effort working to link patchwork of sidewalks along Old Palm Valley Road
2015-04-03 18:58:27| Agriculture - Topix.net
Photos by Amanda.Williamson@jacksonville.com Brian and Julie Anderson stand along Old Palm Valley Road, where Julie almost lost her life in a February 2014 hit-and-run accident. Julie Anderson said the accident, which left her with a broken neck, has fueled her desire to get sidewalks placed along the dangerous roadway.
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Another giant palm oil buyer commits to stopping deforestation
2015-04-03 04:23:44| Agriculture - Topix.net
In 2014, we saw a major increase in the number of companies committing to de-forestation free products and the trend is continuing this year. Archer Daniels Midland Co.
Fortune 50 firm could create 500 jobs in Palm Beach Gardens
2015-04-02 14:43:53| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
A division of Fortune 50 company United Technologies Corp . could create nearly 500 jobs in a major Palm Beach Gardens facility, but first its proposed site must be released from a restriction for biotech uses.
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