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TAKE ACTION TO STOP THE BELO MONTE DAM
Belo Monte Dam is by no means an inevitability, despite what the Brazilian government and the companies promoting the dam would like you to believe.
Please donate to our campign to stop one of the most destruction projects in the history of the planet, the Belo Monte Dam in Brazil. It would flood and devastate a huge area of rainforest, kill off hundreds of rainforest species and greatly reduce biodiversity, cause large numbers of species of fish to die off, and displace over 20,000 indigenous people while threatening their survival. The dam would be the third-largest hydroelectric project in the world and would require diverting nearly the entire flow of the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon River, through two artificial canals, leaving indigenous communities along a 65-mile stretch of the Xingu without water, fish, or a means of river transport. James Cameron, the director of Avatar, has joined several Brazilian and international environmental and human rights organizations and Indian nations in opposing this dam. Please donate to stop this terrible environmental catastrophe today. Please be as genenrous as possible, but remember that any amount helps.
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The Belo Monte Dam would cause severe impacts to indigenous villages and areas considered of extreme importance for conservation of biodiversity, as well as irreversible impacts to the Xingu´s fish stocks. ...

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LEARNING FROM CHINA
Why the Western Economic Model Will Not Work for the World - Lester R. Brown
Could the American dream in China become a nightmare for the world? For China's 1.3 billion people, the American dream is fast becoming the Chinese dream. Already millions of Chinese are living like Americans— eating more meat, driving cars, traveling abroad, and otherwise spending their fast-rising incomes much as Americans do. Although these U.S.-style consumers are only a small fraction of the population, China's claims on the earth's resources are already becoming highly visible...

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THE SHORT PATH TO OIL INDEPENDENCE
Gas-Electric Hybrids and Wind Power Offer Winning Combination
Lester R. Brown
With the price of oil above $50 a barrel, with political instability in the Middle East on the rise, and with little slack in the world oil economy, we need a new energy strategy. Fortunately, the outline of a new strategy is emerging with two new technologies. These technologies—gas-electric hybrid engines and advanced-design wind turbines—offer a way to wean ourselves from imported oil...

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THE RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT GUIDE
Putting People and the Planet Ahead of Corporate Profits Rainforest Action Network
Multinational mega-banks, with their global reach and lack of environmental and social standards, fund a wide array of unsavory projects and companies. These banks often profit from the exploitation of vulnerable communities and endangered ecosystems across the globe, yet they fail to inform their customers that some of their hard-earned savings or credit card balance is quietly being used to destroy indigenous cultures, fuel global warming, or wipe out endangered species. Clearly, most of these customers, if they knew that their money was being used to fund such destruction, would be outraged! ... This Responsible Investment Guide is one resource available to consumers, citizens, and activists who are concerned about how their money is being used by private financial institutions...

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The World Rainforest Fund, founded by the distinguished evolutionary biologist David Seaborg, is a leading non-profit environmental group, working to promote biodiversity, save endangered species from extinction, prevent global warming, and protect delicate ecosystems from destruction. Science demonstrates that through photosynthesis plants play a vital role in converting carbon dioxide to oxygen. So conservation of both tropical and temperate rainforests is essential if we are to avoid the greenhouse effect, which has already caused severe droughts and had a devastating effect on the earth's atmosphere. But we need your help. Please donate to the World Rainforest Fund in order to save trees and wildlife habitats from clearcutting, and to promote public awareness of ecology and the inter-relationship of all forms of life on this planet.
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