Indonesia's government is supporting a new initiative to increase palm oil plantations to provide palm oil for biofuel. See the following article:
http://www.ecoearth.info/alerts/send.asp?id=indonesia_peatland
A related article about paying countries to protect rainforests:
http://www.ecoearth.info/alerts/send.asp?id=climate_rainforest
Oil for ape scandal - research report
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/oil_for_ape_full.pdf
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October's NatGeo has a big article about biofuels. Looks like making fuel from algae (of all things) would be a HUGE advancement, especially since algae actually USES CO2 to grow. one of the first companies working with/creating it, Greenfuel, is based right here in Arizona!
here's an article with Jane Goodall about biofuels.
it's hard to know what to do anymore...
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