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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. |
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 Roger Hamilton |
Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest. |
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 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 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. |
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 June 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Brazil's Other Forest Still brimming with biological diversity, the Atlantic Forest needs allies. |
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 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. |
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 April 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Pathways to survival The tiny world of a little Brazilian monkey gets bigger---and just in time. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek February 11, 2010 Charlie Rose |
Eike Batista: Rich Man. Richest Man? On his way to becoming the richest man in the world, Eike Batista got his start in gold at age 23. |
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. |
IDB America February 2002 Roger Hamilton |
Wild nightlife in the Amazon The mineral pond is where the action is... |
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Melanie Waddell |
State Sues Reserve Funds for Fraud The Massachusetts Securities Division charges Reserve Management Company with making numerous false and misleading statements. |
The Motley Fool October 18, 2006 Brian Lawler |
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees Underappreciated Forest Labs continues its trend of strong growth. Trading at roughly 20 times its forward earnings guidance even with a much higher level of R&D spending, here is a company that investors shouldn't lose sight of amidst the rest of the trees. |