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Amazon Heartthrob

Matt — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:28:33 +0000

Greenopia made a list of ”10 Green Guys We Love” and Doug made the list amongst the likes of Jack Johnson, Adrian Grenier and uh, me. Check it out…

The Amazon Rainforest is More Important than Electric Cars

Matt — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:07:09 +0000

Someone should contact Neil Young and tell him to stop making albums about electric cars and start writing songs about the Amazon. While I write this in jest, the boringness of someone pulling your ear about the devastation of deforestation should still be as important as talking about topics such as the duel between San Francisco and Portland for electric car supremacy...

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40% of Amazon Will Disappear Despite Climate Change Efforts

Matt — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:49:10 +0000

Fourty percent or more of the Amazon rainforest will be “decimated” by the middle of the next century even if we cut all CO2 emissions by 2050, said the UK Met Office. The finding was presented this past month in Copenhagen, which is preparing to host the UN Climate Change Conference in December.

Human-driven deforestation (measured by a net decrease in tree density) will occur even in the absence of a 3° Celsius or more increase in global, average temperature, which is what many scientists believe to be necessary for rain forest loss to pass a “tipping point”…

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Amazon Rainforest Will Suffer Catastrophic Damage, Even in Best Case Scenario

Matt — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:45:39 +0000

The damage will be so severe that it will cause irreversible changes to the world’s weather patterns, which is expected to bring more storms, floods and heat waves to Britain.

Up to 40 per cent of the rainforest will be lost if temperature rises are restricted to 2C, which most climatologists regard as the least that can be expected by 2050…

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Amazon News: MTV Cuts Down Rainforest for Reality TV Show

Matt — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:56:01 +0000

The television show, which premieres on September 17^th, took over the neighboring, inhabited island in militant style by hiring the local police to prevent residents from accessing a public beach. As it turned out, according to local witnesses, MTV had cleared a small patch of rainforest to build a tiki-hut structure near the beach, developed an access road through the forest, and installed generators and lighting on the beach.

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Cattle Pastures in Deforested Amazon Now the Size of Iceland

Matt — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:48:25 +0000

The largest rainforest in the world is being chopped down almost entirely for a single purpose: beef. That’s right, one of the biggest, most beautifully diverse ecosystems on the planet is being traded in—for hamburgers. According to a report from Mongabay, a full 80 percent of the land cleared by Amazon deforestation from 1996-2006 has been used to create cattle pastures.

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