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Forest City padlocks Whim's doors
2014-06-28 09:18:39| Real Estate - Topix.net
Forest City Enterprises, the Station Square owner, padlocked the doors of the club Thursday after Common Pleas Judge Joseph James ruled that it had followed proper procedure in terminating Whim's lease in the East Warehouse.
14 Million Soccer Fields Of Amazonian Rain Forest Saved From Clearcutting
2014-06-26 11:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CleanTechnica: A research study published in Science this month (June 2014) found that a 70% decline in Brazilian Amazon deforestation could be an indication that effective management of the expanding agricultural sector is possible. One of the leading organizations behind the study was the Earth Innovation Institute in San Francisco, CA. (There were seven others that contributed to the research as well, like Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Bairro Fátima.) Some key points from the study paper: 86,000...
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No REDD+ Program Is an Island: Integrating Gender Into Forest Conservation Efforts
2014-06-25 05:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Security Beat: Since 2005, the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program (REDD+) has functioned as a mechanism to financially incentivize the preservation of forestlands in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But beyond its original use, some organizations have also started exploring ways it can help with other development initiatives, like womens empowerment. [Video Below] Last month, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and USAID held a multi-day workshop...
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Tasmanian forest ruling: Abbott government says jobs will be lost
2014-06-24 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Abbott government has reacted defiantly to a stinging UN rebuke to its plan to remove world heritage protection from Tasmanian forest, claiming the rejection will result in job losses in the state. Unescos world heritage committee took just eight minutes to reject the Coalitions request to strip 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forest from the internationally protected area at a meeting in Qatar on Monday night. Portugals delegate to the committee said the governments justifications for...
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Wilmar to investigate palm oil company destroying orangutan forest
2014-06-24 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A Wilmar supplier is allegedly destroying orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, potentially putting it in breach of the plantation giant's zero deforestation policy, reports Greenomics. According to analysis of satellite data by Greenomics, PT Sumatera Jaya Agro Lestari (SJAL) has cleared an area of forest that is classified as orangutan habitat. Greenomics says the clearing has occurred since Wilmar's zero deforestation commitment went into effect. The allegations are corroborated by Global...
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