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Corruption in Peru Aids Cutting of Rain Forest
2013-10-19 03:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Afraid the police would tip off suspects, Francisco Berrospi kept local officers in the dark when he headed into the rain forest as a prosecutor to investigate illegal logging. Sometimes it hardly seemed to matter, though. Even when he managed to seize trucks, chain saws or illegally harvested trees, judges would often force him to give them back, he said. Bribes were so common, he said, that one anticorruption official openly encouraged him to take them. The power of the logging industry here...
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Sahara Forest Project: From vision to reality
2013-10-14 16:39:00| Power Technology
The Sahara Forest Project is a new environmental solution designed to utilize saltwater and CO2 to produce food, water and energy in desert areas.
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Why Forest City Published Its First Corporate Social Responsibility Report
2013-10-14 15:40:00| National Real Estate Investor
"Buildings account for 68 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption, 12 percent of water use and 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency," says Joyce Mihalik, director of energy management at Forest City Enterprises. She says Forest City "recognized years ago that as managers, owners and developers of retail, office and apartments, we could reduce our contribution to these numbers, while simultaneously creating vibrant communities and benefiting our bottom line." read more
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The Sahara Forest Project from the industrial to the ecological age
2013-10-14 01:00:00| Power Technology
The Sahara Forest Project in Qatar exploits abundant sea water to produce electricity and grow fresh crops using a synergy of technologies. As the project reaches its ninth month of operation, what clues does it give us about ecological innovation an
PRESS RELEASE: Plaza College Relocates Campus to Forest Hills Tower; Readies for 100-Year Anniversary
2013-10-07 16:44:00| National Real Estate Investor
Russ Colchamiro In the first major transaction of its new floor-by-floor leasing program at Forest Hills Tower, Muss Development LLC has signed Plaza College to a long-term, 40,000-square-foot lease to serve as its main campus. read more
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