Palm oil deal 'a threat to the rainforest' (www.independent.co.uk)

Hundreds of millions of tonnes of palm oil look set to be pumped into Britain's vehicles despite scientific evidence showing that chopping down rainforests to make way for plantations exacerbates... More

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Submitted about 4 hours ago by sphillips on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Tax Cuts HURT Small And Medium Businesses (www.seeingtheforest.com)

Cutting corporate taxes really only helps the Wal-Marts - the very companies that are crushing local and regional small and medium businesses. Taxes are on profits. Small businesses are struggling.... More

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Submitted about 4 hours ago by DaveJ on Economy | 0 Comments |

It is not just about saving the cuddly and exotic - it is about natural capital (www.publicservice.co.uk)

Dr Robert Bloomfield, co-ordinator, International Year of Biodiversity UK, outlines why the loss of habitats is causing a ecological, but also a financial disaster that is orders of magnitude greater... More

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Submitted about 4 hours ago by sphillips on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Panel on Climate Faces Challenges (online.wsj.com)

The Nobel-prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change faces new challenges following a call for an investigation of its conduct and for its chairman to resign amid continuing criticism of... More

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My Big Fat Greek Bailout (www.banksterusa.org)

While Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was on the talk shows reassuring America that the economy is healing, developments in Europe threatened to cut the legs out from under a U.S. recovery.

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Submitted about 3 hours ago by gregplaysdrums on Economy | 0 Comments |

Amazon rainforest will bear cost of biofuel policies in Brazil (news.mongabay.com)

Business-as-usual agricultural expansion to meet biofuel production targets for 2020 will take a heavy toll on Brazil's Amazon rainforest in coming years, undermining the potential emissions savings... More

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Submitted 37 minutes ago by sphillips on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Smarter Farming Key to Saving Amazon Rainforest (www.washingtonpost.com)

Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender. At the government-run... More

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Submitted about 23 hours ago by codydamon on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

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Submitted 1 day ago by sandyronzon | 0 Comments |

Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge (www.nytimes.com)

Billions of dollars were at stake when 21 executives of Goldman Sachs and the American International Group convened a conference call on Jan. 28, 2008, to try to resolve a rancorous dispute that had... More

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Submitted about 23 hours ago by gregplaysdrums on Economy | 0 Comments |

Bad Credit Loans Instant Decision (www.instantapprovalbadcreditloans.me.uk)

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