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Companies hire local communities to evade palm oil restrictions in Indonesia
2014-10-04 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: As more palm oil companies are held accountable for deforestation in Indonesia, a growing number are hiring local communities to do their dirty work. According to the Oil Palm Farmers Union (SPKS), companies promise to buy mature fruits at attractive rates from smallholders and local villages who agree to clear and plant in protected forest areas. Through these agreements, companies distance themselves from the process, leaving the locals to bear responsibility for the destruction. Mansuetus Darto,...
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Communities Across the Globe Join USGBCs Green Apple Day of Service
2014-09-30 07:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
INEOS to share 2.5bn of Shale gas profits with communities in UK
2014-09-29 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
INEOS intends to give 6% of its revenues from Shale gas to communities who live above its Shale gas operations in the UK.
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Drought Has 14 Communities on the Brink of Waterlessness in California
2014-09-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Under the blistering Central Valley sun, Filiberta Sanchez and her toddler granddaughter strolled down a Parkwood sidewalk lined with yellow weeds, dying grass and trees more fit for kindling than shade. "It was very pretty here, very pretty," said Sanchez, 56, as little Jenny crunched a fistful of parched dirt and pine needles she grabbed from the ground. "Now everything's dry." Parkwood's last well dried up in July. County officials, after much hand-wringing, made a deal with the city of...
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Tool to help communities stay environmentally, socially 'healthy'
2014-09-26 01:07:35| Agriculture - Topix.net
A new way to measure the 'health' of poor regional communities has been developed by geographers who aim to improve the wellbeing of people by guiding sustainable development practices to help avoid social and environmental collapse. The researchers have pioneered a methodology that examines the balance between factors such as; standards of living, natural resources, agriculture, industry and the economy.
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