Fighting for A Sustainable Planet: News and Resources

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's investments in Monsanto and Cargill have come under heavy criticism. Is it time for the foundation to come clean on its visions for agriculture in developing countries?

Via Maria Nunzia

(Reuters) - DuPont Co will pay Monsanto Co at least $1.75 billion in a new licensing deal and both companies have agreed to dissolve their bitter legal battles over rights to technology for genetically...

Via Maria Nunzia

Her name is Green, she is alone in a world that doesn't belong to her. She is a female orang-utan, victim of deforestation and resource exploitation.
This film is an emotional journey with Green's final days. It is a visual ride presenting the treasures of rainforest biodiversity and the devastating impacts of logging and land clearing for palm oil plantations.
The film "Green" is a 48 min long documentary on the Indonesian rainforest, deforestation and orangutan extinction. It is a silent film (without narration) which addresses itself both to the Indonesians and the consumers of wood/paper/palm oil around the world. This film is now available for free download on the website: http://greenfilm.free.fr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J57ZRSjpzQA

 

PALM OIL ECOCIDE - THE DEFORESTATION HOLOCAUST: Fast-Tracking Our Own Extinction http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1510545458/fast-tracking-our-own-extinction-the-deforestation-holocaust-

 

TEN NEWS "PALM OIL ECOCIDE"  TV AUSTRALIA VIDEO: http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1561454232/palm-oil-ecocide-ten-news-australia-video

 

THE YEAR IN RAINFORESTS - Mongabay - December 31, 2012 http://news.mongabay.com/2012/1231-year-in-rainforests-2012.html

 

NEW STUDY SLAMS INDONESIA'S FOREST PROTECTION - ONLY 4% OF FOREST WILL BE INTACT http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4470&Itemid=214

 

WILDLIFE IN THE TROPICS PLUMMETS BY OVER 60 PERCENT http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0515-hance-living-planet-report-tropics.html

 

HALF OF TROPICAL FORESTS PARKS LOSING BIODIVERSITY http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0725-hance-tropical-parks-biodiversity.html

 

  

Via pdjmoo

People are made to live totally dependent on technology and professional consumption, ignorant of how to grow their own food and recycle energy sources (Global news: Cabiokid: Sanctuary of sustainability - Rappler

Eco-footprinting.... starts from a series of simple premises:

    * People remain integral components of the ecosystems that sustain them;

    * Most human impacts on ecosystems are associated with energy and material extraction and consumption (all economic activity has material consequences);

    * Many energy and material flows are readily measurable and can be converted to corresponding productive or assimilative ecosystems areas;

    * There is a finite area of productive land and water ecosystems on Earth.

Editor’s Note:  Gary Cohen is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth.

The natural gas mining method known as hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" is another major source of water usage and a serious source of contamination. There are several ways of disposing of the water used in the process.

Via Maria Nunzia

The world faces decades of turbulent weather even if it takes drastic action to tackle climate change, the Government's chief scientific adviser said today in a final stark warning as he prepares to step down.

Via SustainOurEarth, pdjmoo

A new smart material called a MOF (metal organic framework) has the ability to adsorb carbon dioxide and release it when exposed to sunlight thus creating a new breakthrough in a way to recycle CO2 emissions using renewable energy.

A new smart material called a MOF (metal organic framework) has the ability to adsorb carbon dioxide and release it when exposed to sunlight thus creating a new breakthrough in a way to recycle CO2 emissions using renewable energy. - See more at: http://blog.cleantechies.com/2013/02/26/capturing-carbon-dioxide-with-a-solar-sponge/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cleantechies+%28CleanTechies+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader#sthash.JO5scbcM.dpuf

Via Hans De Keulenaer, Ian Lin

Photo via Shutterstock Just about anyone who grew up in the eastern United States will recall the beautiful black and brown Monarch butterflies that migrate en masse from Mexico to breed and feed in the US and Canada, before returning to slumber in a central Mexican forest. But this year their numbers have dropped by 59 percent, according to the latest WWF-led annual census of the insects. In part, this has to do with the loss of milkweed that butterflies require for food and to breed, which has declined in parts of the United States where genetically modified soybean and corn crops are grown. But that’s not the only reason, according to the experts. (more)

Read more: GMOs and Illegal Logging Halve Mexican Monarch Butterfly Population | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building