Word: rainforests
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...that one effective way to halt destructive practices is to take on the institutions that bankroll them. "The private financial sector more than any other has the ability to begin the ecological U-turn modern society so desperately needs," says Ilyse Hogue, director of the global-finance campaign at Rainforest Action Network (RAN), which led the fight against JPMorgan Chase. Yet even as they have publicly confronted big financial institutions, green groups--many of which belong to a loose collection of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) known as BankTrack--have privately collaborated with banks to jointly tackle environmental and social concerns...
...that one effective way to halt destructive practices is to take on the institutions that bankroll them. "The private financial sector, more than any other, has the ability to begin the ecological U-turn modern society so desperately needs," says Ilyse Hogue, director of the global finance campaign at Rainforest Action Network (ran), which led the fight against JPMorgan Chase. Yet even as they have publicly confronted big financial institutions, green groups - many of whom belong to a loose collection of nongovernmental organizations known as BankTrack - have also privately collaborated with banks to jointly tackle environmental and social concerns...
Iguazu Falls, as Eleanor Roosevelt famously observed, "make the Niagara look like a kitchen faucet." This may be an exaggeration but not by much?after all, the Iguazu Falls are four times wider than Ontario's most famous body of water. Located amid lush rainforest at the border of Brazil and Argentina, they present one of the best (and most deafening) opportunities you will ever have for an encounter with the unbridled power of nature. The Brazilian side has the panoramas, while the Argentinean side offers proximity to the falls themselves. But viewing from both sides is necessary to complete...
Iguazu Falls, as Eleanor Roosevelt famously observed, "make the Niagara look like a kitchen faucet." This may be an exaggeration but not by much?after all, the Iguazu Falls are four times wider than Ontario's most famous body of water. Located amid lush rainforest at the border of Brazil and Argentina, they present one of the best (and most deafening) opportunities you will ever have for an encounter with the unbridled power of nature...
...creation. Nossiter doesn't do Michael Moore-style voice-overs. Instead he uncorks his views through his characters' stubborn devotion to wine. The 21/4-hour film is a willful distillation of some 500 hours of rushes shot over a period of four years in vineyards located everywhere from the Brazilian rainforest to Sardinia to deepest Burgundy. In France, where Mondovino opened Nov. 3, the film has received mostly positive reviews and lots of buzz among wine lovers. It comes out in the U.K. next week, and in the U.S., Italy and Germany next spring. Nossiter is working his material into...