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EIA Provides Testimony is the U.S House of Representatives - Legal Timber Protection Act.
This video introduces the global crisis of illegal logging and explains how a landmark new U.S law will combat the problem. By changing incentives in the market to verify the origins of plant products, and creating transparency in the supply chain by requiring a new import declaration, this law is s ...
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The Lacey Act - closing down the illegal wood trade
This video introduces the global crisis of illegal logging and explains how a landmark new U.S law will combat the problem. The recent(May 2008) passage of an amendment to the Lacey Act,a 100 year old anti-trafficking statute, makes the import,sale and transport of illegal sourced timber,wood produc ...
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One Planet Food
Food is now cheap in this country, but at what cost? If everyone in the world ate and lived as we do, we'd need the resources of three planets not one. Three young secret agents are briefed by "The Boss" to investigate the impact of food and farming on the environment. Their assignments take them to ...
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Celebrating the soya moratorium
The announcement of the extension of a moratorium on soya expansion provides hope for the Amazon rainforest.
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Investigating Indonesia's Final Forest Frontier
A report from the Greenpeace forest campaign team onboard the Esperanza in Papua. The area is rapidly becoming Indonesia's new battleground for palm oil.
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Timberland Earthkeepers
Timberland Earthkeepers are waterproof and lightweight - yet don't compromise the environment having 70% recycled lining and 30% recycled sole.
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Papua - Indonesia's Last Forest Frontier
Papua is home to Indonesia's last remaining pristine forest. These areas are now under increasing threat from the encroaching palm oil industry.
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Development Marketplace 2008
The World Bank and its partners have awarded more than US$4 million dollars to over 20 innovative agricultural projects from around the globe. The funding was provided through Development Marketplace - a competitive grant program that identifies and funds innovative, early-stage development projects ...
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GM Crops Won't Tackle Global Food Crisis
Clare Oxborrow, GM campaigner at Friends of the Earth discusses the Government's plans to relax restrictions on GM crops to tackle the worsening food crisis. She is worried that the Government has been mislead over the benefits by the GM industry, when in actual fact GM fact don't increase yields, a ...
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Eco Debt - West Dorset. Part 5
A community farming group talk about how they are increasing the sustainability of their farms and why selling to the local community is so important.
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Fairtrade Cotton in Cameroon
This short film shows the impact that Fairtrade is having on cotton farmers in several villages in Cameroon.
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Eco-Debt West Dorset. Part 4
A community farm group talks about how they are increasing the sustainability of their farm. By reducing their Ecological Footprint, they are easing the pressure on the Earth's natural systems and finding healthier and happier ways to live.
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Sustainable Development - The Miller Way
The US beer maker Miller have a goal of zero waste in their breweries and are currently recycling 99.9% of all packaging waste. Environmental initiatives have also led to big reductions in energy and water use.
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Focus on Jatropha - Sustainable Biofuel
Jatropha curcas has the potential to become one of the world's key energy crops. Grown on marginal land unsuitable for food crops, jatropha provides a ready source of high quality bio-diesel.
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Shoppers Gone Mad - Max Havelaar Fairtrade
Shoppers throw their products in their basket while filmed by security cams. Think this is the only way to make your shopping interesting? Go Fairtrade!!
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Cloud Forests
Tropical montane cloud forests are a rare type of evergreen mountain forest found in tropical areas where local climatic conditions cause cloud and mist to be regularly in contact with the forest vegetation. These forests support ecosystems of distinctive floristic and structural form and contain a ...
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Divine Inspiration - Empowerment for Women
Comfort Kumeah lives in the small town of Mem in the Ashanti region of Ghana. She is a member of Kuapa Kokoo cocoa growers' cooperative and was recently elected the national secretary.
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Bio-Fuel Dilemma
How do you balance the competing global demands for green fuel and cheap food? Features UK transport secretary Ruth Kelly and the IMF's Simon Johnson.
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J Sainsbury - From field to fork
How the environment and the consumer both benefit from sourcing with integrity from the watercress beds of the Hampshire countryside.
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SAB Miller - Sustainable development in Honduras
A documentary showing how the company works with the people of Honduras to tackle deforestation and protect water resources.
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