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To become less damaging, target non-forest lands for palm oil, says book
2014-10-16 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Palm oil production has been spectacularly profitable but ecologically disastrous across Southeast Asia, consuming millions of hectares of indigenous lands, rainforests, and peatlands in recent decades. That paradox has made the crop highly controversial despite its importance in providing a high-yielding source of vegetable oil. A new book, published freely online by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), weighs in on the debate and concludes - like many before it - that the problem...
Western Digital My Book Duo (8TB)
2014-10-14 23:02:32| PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
The spacious 8GB Western Digital My Book Duo desktop-class external hard drive comes with two drive assemblies, for either extra room or added safety for your backups.
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Review: Book looks at costs of pork production
2014-10-13 21:18:25| Food - Topix.net
When the recession took hold six years ago and consumers stopped eating high on the hog, the giant meatpacker Hormel Foods began ratcheting up production to meet a surge in demand for Spam, its low-cost processed pork product in the familiar blue tins. Taking a leaf from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," the century-old expose of the meatpacking industry, author Ted Genoways details the impact of the production speedup on workers at the company's Midwest plants, the damage to water and soil, and the immigration-related conflicts that have arisen in towns where the industry holds sway.
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Does Changing Everything Need Everyone? Thoughts on Naomi Kleins new climate change book
2014-10-11 17:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
COIN: This week COIN hosted Naomi Klein one of the most influential leftwing voices of our time in Oxford as she launched her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. Having read the book, and listened to her speak, I offer here some personal reflections on why I found the ambition of the book (to radically curb the excesses of extractivist growth-based capitalism) compelling, but the means by which these ends could be achieved disappointingly lacking in inspiration. Klein...
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'Cereal Wars' book dishes on food lobbying - Burger King crowns ...
2014-10-11 14:41:46| Agriculture - Topix.net
'CEREAL WARS' BOOK DISHES ON FOOD LOBBYING: "The two issues which ensure continued employment for food lobbyists are the sugar program and advertising to children," writes George Franklin, former lobbyist for Kellogg Company, in his new self-published book "Raisin Bran and Other Cereal Wars: 30 Years of Lobbying for the Most Famous Tiger in the World." "Regardless of which sides you are on, these two issues continue to be gifts that keep giving and have put lots of lobbyists' kids through college."
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