Can Protected Areas Combat the Sixth Mass Extinction?

Posted August 12, 2011 in The Understory

Our planet is currently facing one of the most destructive extinction events in the history of the earth, with an estimated loss of 30,000 species per year, known as the…

What is Sustainable Palm Oil? Part Three

Posted August 5, 2011 in The Understory

This is the third and final installment in a series of posts that endeavors to answer a simple question: What is sustainable palm oil? The answer, of course, is anything…

Palm Oil’s Effects On Communities Around The World

Posted October 21, 2010 in The Understory

Did you see The New York Times Op-Ed on Saturday titled “The World Bank’s Palm Oil Mistake“? I sure did. The author, Thompson Ayodele, provided a narrow perspective on the…

Palm Oil Key Focus at General Mills Shareholder Meeting

Posted September 30, 2010 in The Understory

Yesterday marked a huge shift in the U.S. food industry – it’s now official that the world’s sixth largest food company is taking concrete action to address their controversial sourcing…

The Power of Film: Indonesian Deforestation Exposed

Posted July 30, 2010 in The Understory

Between major environmental campaigns, international policy negotiations, and increasingly critical threats to biodiversity and local communities, the issue of Indonesian rainforest destruction is gaining much needed recognition as a critical…

Nestle Rejects Rainforest-Destroying Palm Oil: Who’s Next?

Posted May 20, 2010 in The Understory

This week the leading consumer food company Nestle announced new policies to eliminate palm oil connected with the increasingly dire status of broad swaths of the world’s rainforests. The expansion…

Indigenous prisoners of conscience

Posted March 20, 2008 in The Understory

Earlier this week 6 political leaders of the Indigenous Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation were sentenced to 6 months in jail for refusing to allow mining and exploration on their…