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IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Tomorrow's Amazon In the far western Amazonian state of Acre, a group of idealists is inventing a pragmatic, hard-nosed way to protect the rainforest.
IDB America January 2006	We Are Trying to Make Dreams Happen The governor of Brazil's Amazonian state of Acre is a passionate advocate of the rain forest and his people's economic future. Here's an interview with Jorge Viana on his government's innovative approach to preserving the rain forest.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Machines in the Garden A state in Brazil's Amazon enlists laboratories and industrial parks to help protect its forests.
IDB America September 2004 David Atkinson	The Legacy of Chico Mendes How the tragedy of Brazilian rain forest activist Chico Mendes changed the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and altered the course of history
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton	Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Contraception Goes Organic Brazilian officials are hopeful that a commercial product such as condoms -- sold with their all-natural cachet -- will give the standing Amazonian rainforest additional value and boost incomes for the families that make their living from it.
Smithsonian March 2007 Joshua Hammer	Rain Forest Rebel In the Amazon, researchers document the way the native people have joined forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Rain Forest Protagonist Local people first saw a new reserve in Brazil's rainforest as a threat, but are now optimistic that the change will help them preserve their way of life while offering some economic stability.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	New Amazonians Latin America is attempting to create a relationship between man and nature that includes the history, heritage and views of local people.
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton	Brazil's Other Forest Still brimming with biological diversity, the Atlantic Forest needs allies.
IDB America November 2005 Roger Hamilton	Bridging the Last Frontier A vast network of bridges, roads, ports and other investments is about to revolutionize trade and tourism among the 12 South American nations
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	Pathways to survival The tiny world of a little Brazilian monkey gets bigger---and just in time.
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	`Mico' Mystique Why some of Brazil's big landowners are helping to protect a tiny primate.
Financial Advisor September 2011 Ellie Winninghoff	Go Hug A Forest Impact investors can foster change while earning handsome returns in one of the only asset classes where there's real growth.
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Mark L. Clifford	Rainforest Rescue Can sustainable logging succeed? A group experiment in Indonesia could show Big Timber the way.
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton	Environmentally friendly cattle? A new system for raising cattle is now being introduced in Guatemala as a way for farmers to earn more from their land and at the same time protect the environment.
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	Winning Hearts and Minds Conservationists and small farmers in Brazil had to get to know each other before they could work together to help save the fate of a little indigenous monkey.
IDB America February 2002 Roger Hamilton	Jump-starting ecotourism in the Brazilian Amazon Nine Amazonian states join to prove that natural ecosystems can be good economics...
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton	On the Trail of the Peripatetic Pathogen Disease microbes make common cause between farmers and conservationists in far western Sao Paulo State, Brazil.
IDB America December 2003 Roger Hamilton	The biowealth of nations An eminent scientist argues that the information contained in biodiversity is one of a country's greatest assets.
Mother Jones June 2000 Ted Williams	False Forests What's green, full of trees, and worse than a clearcut? Vast pine farms, which are rapidly replacing the woods with a new kind of Southern plantation.
Smithsonian August 2006 Michael Tennesen	Uphill Battle As the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Chico Mendes: Amazon Journey In tiny forest communities in the far western corner of the Brazilian Amazon, conversations often begin and end with the rubber tapper who rallied local communities and world opinion to the cause of protecting tropical forests and their inhabitants.
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Mark Hertsgaard	The California chainsaw massacre Clear-cutting is tearing up forests in the nation's most environmentally aware state, and opponents blame the timber industry's ties to Gov. Gray Davis.
Outside August 2005 Peter Stark	The Tree Slayer What does a naive environmentalist discover when he buys his own forest? He's got to log it to save it.
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Alexandra Wolfe	Next Life: Scouring the Forest for the Trees Private equity player Harald Orneberg sold his fund, then headed for Brazil to form The Forest Co. and grow (money on) trees.
IDB America March 2005 Charo Quesada	A New Gateway for Development On the shores of the Uruguay River, a specialized port anticipates the growth of a renewable and sustainable forest industry.
IDB America May 2003 Roger Hamilton	Want power? Plant trees! In the mountains of Honduras, environmental protection and energy generation go hand in hand.
Foundation News & Commentary Mar/Apr 2006 Sherri Alms	A Win/Win Proposition The Blandin Foundation championed inclusivity across sectors to promote healthy forests and communities -- and along the way won the 2006 Paul Ylvisaker Award for Public Policy Engagement.
Geotimes August 2003 Greg Peterson	Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests.
Outside June 2003 Douglas Gantenbein	We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods.
Reason June 2009 Ronald Bailey	Reforestation Rain forests are returning, but it's economic growth, not environmental activism, that's responsible.
IDB America Roger Hamilton	Passions and profits For many, the real bottom line in ecotourism is conservation.
Outside March 2005 Bruce Barcott	As a Matter of Fact, Money Does Grow on Trees With an anti-environmental backlash inflicting one defeat after another on conservationists, a band of maverick economists is riding to the rescue with a startling revelation about the true value of our natural resources: Follow the money, and you end up in a very green place.
This Old House C.J. Hughes	Buying 'Green' Flooring Join the ranks of consumers who are driving the market for "sustainable" products by following these 10 options for the eco-minded remodeler.
Financial Advisor November 2009 Thomas J. Straka	Does Your Client Own Timberland? - Part I Over ten million individuals and families own timberland. Is it a neglected aspect of your client's portfolio?
Popular Mechanics May 2007 Simon Cooper	Global Timber Smugglers--and How You Can Stop Them This multibillion-dollar black market business occurs in more than 70 countries, and contributes to the annual destruction of more than 32 million wooded acres. Here is a Guilt-Free Wood Buyer's Guide and Tips to Buy Safe Wood.
Salon.com March 6, 2002 Jennifer Hile	Hangin' with the 'tans in Borneo Deep in the Indonesian rain forest, our reporter braves tribal war to discover why orangutans may be driven to extinction by America's love for pool cues...
Smithsonian November 2005 Elizabeth Royte	35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin This ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation.
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	The Message of a Little Monkey In Rio de Janeiro and across the globe, natural ecosystems are being altered and simplified to serve burgeoning human demands. If the golden lion tamarin escapes extinction, the world will be a little more habitable for the rest of us.
TIME Asia June 20, 2011 Brendan Brady	Battle of the Jungle Sorng Rukavorn is one of 13 community forests in Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province -- spread over a total of 68,000 hectares -- being registered with climate-change groups as a bank of carbon credits.
Smithsonian April 2004 Russ Rymer	Saving the Music Tree Artists and instrument makers have banded together to rescue Brazil's imperiled pernambuco, the source of bows for violins, violas and cellos.
High on Adventure August 2002 Habeeb Salloum	Walking the Canopy of the World's Oldest Rainforest The 130 million-year-old virgin Taman Negara forest spreads across the formidable Titiwangsa Mountain Range in northeastern Malaysia.
Scientific American September 2009 Madhusree Mukerjee	Conflicted Conservation: When Restoration Efforts Are Pitted against Human Rights Saving Earth might mean trampling indigenous societies
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IDB America August 2004 Roger Hamilton	Education for a New Amazon An innovative High School course prepares Peruvian students for big changes coming their way as they witness firsthand the transformation of their frontier jungle town into one of the crossroads of a continent.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2011 Brian Orelli	Timber! Clinical Data Falls. Forest Labs cuts down Clinical Data. Clinical Data announced today that it agreed to be purchased by Forest Labs for $30 per share.
IndustryWeek July 1, 2004 Tonya Vinas	Boise Challenges Suppliers While supply-chain optimization hasn't generally focused on environmental responsibility, it does at paper, office supply and construction materials manufacturer Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Idaho.
Geotimes February 2005 Sara Pratt	Cicadas Speed Forest Growth The trillions of decomposing insects on forest floors across the eastern U.S. serve to fertilize the forests where they died.
Scientific American September 2008 Charles Q. Choi	Drug Traffickers and Other Outlaws Endanger Forest Preservation Efforts Illegal ranching and illicit activities hamper forest conservation efforts.