Commercial Palm Oil Production in Southeast Asia Violating Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: New Survey

photo: Forest Peoples Programme Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying rainforests as it rapidly expands. A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme details the damage…

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Even Logged Rainforest Holds High Biodiversity Levels & Is Worth Protecting: Study

Logged forest on left, unlogged forest on right… photo: Wakx via flickr Conventional political wisdom on rainforest degradation is that once you’ve logged an area once, or even twice, removing the largest most valuable trees, the forest becomes degraded to the point that biodiversity losses make it not worth protecting

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The Green School Showcases Bamboo Construction in Indonesia

Read the rest of The Green School Showcases Bamboo Construction in Indonesia http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Aga Khan , Aga Khan Awards , Aga Khan Awards for Architecture , Bali , bamboo , Bambu , Eco Architecture , eco design , eco school , Green Building , green design , green materials , indonesia , renewable materials , school , Sustainable Building , sustainable school , The Green School

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Indonesia to Add 4000 MW of Geothermal Power by 2014… And Add Another 10 GW of Coal by 2012

Geothermal doesn’t draw power directly from volcanoes, but Indonesia’s volcanic activity is just a sign of the underlying potential waiting to be tapped. Photo: flydime via flickr. Indonesia may not be tapping into much of its superior http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_powergeothermal power potential at the moment, that’s about to change.

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For Sale: Naming Rights to Newly Discovered Species

Once biologists started figuring out that their discoveries could get a lot of attention riding the coattails of a famous namesake, they began to get quite creative with taxonomy . As a result, there’s a myriad of new species named after fictional characters, actors, musicians, and politicians–from the Calponia harrisonfordi ant and the Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi spider, to a species of orange-colored … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Eco-Certified Paper Razing Sumatran Orangutans’ Rainforest Homes, Displacing Indigenous Peoples

Logging in Indonesia. Photo by David Gilbert/Rainforest Action Network via FERN .

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US Federal Judge Awards Compensation For Chinese Drywall-Caused, Wiring, HVAC, Appliance Damages

Stack of Chinese-made drywall. Image credit:Sarasota FL HeraldTribune A Federal judge has ruled that seven Virginia homeowners made legitimate damage claims regarding corrosion of metal items in the home and personal inconvenience caused by use of contaminated Chinese-made drywall to repair hurricane damage.

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EU May Classify Palm Oil Plantations as ‘Forests’ in Sustainable Biofuels Scheme

Oil palm fruit; photo: fitri agung via flickr. A leaked draft version of a European Commission report on implementation of EU sustainable biofuels plans would permit classification of palm oil plantations as intact forest, EU Observer reports. The document says that while conversion of for..

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Oil palm fruit; photo: fitri agung via flickr. A leaked draft version of a European Commission report on implementation of EU sustainable biofuels plans would permit classification of palm oil plantations as intact forest, EU Observer reports.

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