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The Real Cost of Smoking (Smoking Cessation #1)   video
Environment  (tags: smoking, quit, cigarette, smoke, cough, throat, cancer, lung, marlboro, ash, doctor, asthma, cold, addiction, nicotine, tobacco, medicine, health, beauty, fitness, home, advice, pollution, suffering )

Gregory
- 396 days ago - youtube.com
Need another reason to quit smoking? Smoking causes one out of five deaths in America. Once you understand the real costs of smoking, you'll be ready to put down that cigarette! If you cannot breath nothing else matters!
One Forest One Chance   video
Environment  (tags: forests, habitat, nature, trees, wildlife )

Chris
- 391 days ago - youtube.com
We have until 19 March 2009 to save this froest from being logged - find out how you can help save it!!
First RSPO-Certified ("Eco-Friendly") Palm Oil Shipment to Arrive in Europe
Environment  (tags: )

June
- 401 days ago - news.mongabay.com
The first shipment of palm oil certified under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is expected to arrive in Europe Tuesday, but an environmental group is already criticizing the
Greenpeace Says Blocks Palm Oil Ships in Indonesia
Environment  (tags: environment, habitatdestruction, humans, forests, world, trees, nature )

Cal
- 402 days ago - reuters.com
Greenpeace has blocked three tankers due to transport crude palm oil to China and Europe from leaving an Indonesian port in a bid to highlight deforestation caused by the cash crop, the environmental group said
County Supervisor Tells Marines to Save Off-Road Mecca, Ruin Wilderness
Environment  (tags: environment, habitatdestruction, protection, wilderness, ORVs, Marines, California )

Hammy
- 404 days ago - biologicaldiversity.org
If San Bernardino County Supervisor Brad Mitzelfeld has his way, the military's planned expansion of its base in Twentynine Palms, Calif. will completely avoid an off-road vehicle recreation area in favor of dooming two wilderness areas critical . . . .
Stop Palm Oil This Halloween!
Environment  (tags: forests, destruction, politics )

Daniel
- 433 days ago - ga3.org
Too many companies still use palm oil, which is responsible for destruction of our tropical rainforests. Sign up for your warning stickers for Halloween today.
Palm Oil Industry Relies on Greenwashing to Mislead Consumer
Environment  (tags: environment, deforestation, greenwashing, palm oil, Palm Oil Plantations Destroying Rainfore )

Rhett
- 435 days ago - news.mongabay.com
The Malaysian palm oil industry is relying on marketing tactics that mislead the public about its environmental performance rather than taking effective steps to become "greener" alleges a new report from the environmental group Friends of the Earth.
Oil Palm Plantations Are No Substitute For Tropical Rainforests
Environment  (tags: oil palms, plantations, climate-change, rainforest, biodiversity, environment )

Ingrid
- 455 days ago - terradaily.com
The continued expansion of oil palm plantations will worsen the dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, unless rainforests are better protected, warn scientists in the most comprehensive review of the subject to date.
Environmentalists Target Snack Food Makers Over Palm Oil Use - Aug. 21, 2008
Environment  (tags: Sustainabililty, business, food, deforestation )

Marizela
- 472 days ago - money.cnn.com
What do Oreo cookies made by Nabisco (KFT, Fortune 500), Cheez-It crackers from Kellogg's (K, Fortune 500) or General Mills' (GIS, Fortune 500) Fiber One Chewy Bars have to do with global warming and the destruction of tropical rainforests? A lot, say env
Rainforest Action Network: Warning! Product May Contain Rainforest Destruction
Environment  (tags: Orangutan, Palm Oil Plantations Destroying Rainfore, CO2emissions, conservation, ecosystems, environment, animals, habitatdestruction, Sustainabililty, suffering, trees, wildlife, pollution, habitat, globalwarming, forests, endangered )

Julie
- 473 days ago - ran.org
Rainforest Action Network urges 100's of companies to stop using Palm Oil. --a loss of more than 2.5 million acres per year into the tropical forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. *Also, please visit: TheProblemWithPalmOil.org
 
 
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