How Chocolate Can Save the Planet (NPR) Chocolate is a wonderful thing, but how can it help combat global climate change? Cacao trees -- the source of chocolate -- grow well in rainforests, and rainforests store carbon. So researchers are working to help preserve the forest and to grow more chocolate....more...The greening of Thanksgiving (The News & Observer) As Thanksgiving nears, all the shopping, decorating and cooking is bound, as always, to generate lots of leftovers and tons of trash....more... The Green vs. the Brown Amazon (New York Review of Books) An article by John Terborgh from The New York Review of Books, November 22, 2007...more... |