Posted on November 16, 2018
This week’s Earth Watch guest is Jeff Conant of Friends of the Earth (FOA). Conant and Sojourner Truth host Margaret Prescod discuss the greenwashing of the palm oil industry. Friends of the Earth and World Rainforest Movement co-authored… Read More
Category: Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Featured, Social Media News Tags: FOA, Friends Of The Earth, Greenwashing, Jeff Conant, palm oil, World Rainforest Movement, WRM
Posted on November 9, 2018
This week’s Earth Watch guest on the Sojourner Truth Radio Show was Dr. Rachel Smolker with Biofuelwatch, who discussed this week’s Bioeconomy Day of Action. Smolker is a co-director of Biofuelwatch, and an organizer with Energy Justice Network. She has… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Featured, Social Media News Tags: Bioenergy, Biofuelwatch, caravan, palm oil, rachel smolker
Posted on June 14, 2018
This week, Global Justice Ecology Project executive director Anne Petermann’s regular Earth Minute segment on the Sojourner Truth radio show focused on an open letter sent from 89 organizations from 34 countries to end plans promoting biofuels and carbon offsets… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Social Media News Tags: air travel, airplane, biofuel, earth minute, kpfk, palm oil, sojourner truth
Posted on March 8, 2018
See more on women and plantations in the WRM Bulletin. On 8 March, International Women’s Day, hundreds of organizations and individuals demand an end to the violence against women living in and around large-scale oil palm plantations expansion…. Read More
Posted on October 11, 2017
An in-depth report released by Biofuelwatch last week shows that feedstocks (raw materials used to produce biofuel) other than palm oil cannot be converted to aviation fuels on a large scale either because of technical obstacles, or for… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Social Media News Tags: biofuel, Biofuelwatch, Global Forest Coalition, palm oil, Paris Agreement
Posted on August 15, 2016
The latest confirmation of what we know and have known for a very long time. Via ScienceDaily.com: As more of Southeast Asia’s natural forests are cleared and converted into plantations for growing oil palm, rubber and other tree crops,… Read More
Category: Featured, Social Media News Tags: endangerment, gibbon, palm oil, species
Posted on July 21, 2016
Originally published at Rainforest Rescue. Sign the petition here The Leuser Ecosystem protected area (KEL, Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser) on the island of Sumatra is one of the largest and most important nature reserves in Indonesia. KEL is named… Read More
Posted on April 28, 2016
Six people were sentenced to several months in prison in a protracted show trial in Sierra Leone for protesting the loss of their land and livelihoods to Socfin, a multinational palm oil company. Tell the Sierra Leonean authorities to stop trampling the… Read More
Posted on April 15, 2016
Via Rainforest-Rescue.org: Indonesian activists are sounding the alarm: “The only group that will benefit from this policy are private palm oil companies,” explains Zenzi Suhadi, a campaigner for the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi). “With this biofuel… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Social Media News Tags: biofuel, carbon emissions, Indonesia, palm oil
Posted on July 7, 2015
Growing oil palm plantations in Central America for the production of so-called “renewable” Biodiesel and other “eco-friendly” products has caused massive social and ecological destruction, as the following two articles from UpsideDownWorld.org explain. Miguel Facusse, who recently died,… Read More
Category: Social Media News, Uncategorized Tags: biodiesel, central america, guatemalan river, miguel facusse, palm oil
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