On AlterNet: deforestation

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "deforestation"

The Dark Side of Chocolate: What Our Love Affair With Cocoa Means for the World

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. February 6, 2012.

In addition to labor issues, chocolate plantations can be responsible for deforestation. But it can also be empowering to farmers and relatively healthy for the environment.

Worst Food Additive Ever? It's in Half of All Foods We Eat and Its Production Destroys Rainforests and Enslaves Children

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. October 24, 2011.

The production of this ingredient causes jaw-dropping amounts of deforestation (and with it, carbon emissions) and human rights abuses.

Is REDD the New Green? Why a Much-Hyped Carbon Offset Program May Do More Harm Than Good

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. December 9, 2010.

There's a real division, not only between rich countries who are very much for this and others, but also in the progressive community.

Walmart, KFC, Burger King Paper Purchases Destroying Indonesia's Rainforests

Matthew McDermott, TreeHugger. July 6, 2010.

A new report from Greenpeace points the finger at the international companies responsible for Indonesian deforestation, and the international brands aiding and abetting them.

Your Money or Your Life: Why Work Yourself to Death?

Vicki Robin, Penguin Books. June 19, 2010.

Our affluent life-styles are having an increasingly devastating effect on our planet. We need to start answering for them.

How the Palm Oil Trade Causes a Food Chain of Destruction

Charlie Cray, CorpWatch. May 24, 2010.

Food giant ADM's forays into new global agricultural markets bring charges of forced child labor and rampant deforestation.

Brazil Announces Plan For Sustainable Palm Oil

Stephen Messenger, TreeHugger. May 7, 2010.

It would expand its palm oil cultivation into previously deforested regions, promising a sustainable alternative to the destructive methods practiced in other parts of the world.

Wal-Mart's Crimes Against Forests

Al Norman, Huffington Post. December 19, 2007.

A new study says Wal-Mart's "good wood" procurement policy is just more corporate greenwashing.

The World's Growing Number of Smokers

Bryan Farrell, In These Times. October 4, 2007.

Big Tobacco won't stop until it's infiltrated every possible market.