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You use office paper made only from plantation timber for all that printing you’re doing, so you’re not supporting the destruction of native forests, right? Unfortunately, probably wrong. The latest revelations from a Greenpeace-funded investigation appear to show logging of endangered Indonesian rainforest ramin trees – to be pulped and turned into paper. Ramin (Gonystylus […]
July 17, 2011
I’d missed the news that Australia government is halfway through voting on legislation to have palm oil included on food ingredient labels. While googling for my last post I looked up palm oil and orangutans. I think my first real exposure to this issue was this eye-opening episode of Foreign Correspondent back in 2006, which is still […]
July 17, 2011
Greenpeace has been out destroying what was left of their credibility. Here in Australia their anti-GM campaigning has gone quiet the past few years, but it was back with a vengeance last week with the destruction of a field of wheat at CSIRO. I was happy to see our disgust (my friends and I had […]
March 12, 2012
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