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Increasing productivity to combat deforestation in the Amazon
In year 2009 the brazilian tropical forest experienced the lowest deforestion rate of the last 21 years, with ‘only’ 7,464 square km being deforested (more than the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo). Currently land use change (whose main driver is [...]
Biodiesel from waste water
Some time ago here on Sustentator we talked about a way to treat waste water with micro-algae, and how these micro-algae then could be used for different things, such as biodiesel, for example. This is a project from the Universidad [...]
Deforestation of the Amazon at its lowest level in 20 years
The Brazilian government announced last week that the number of deforested trees in the Amazon over the past year is less than the amounts recorded in the last 20 years. This year, the deforested area was 45% smaller than [...]
Marriott and its “Spirit to preserve” environmental strategy
Marriott International owns more than 3,000 hotels in the US, and works in 66 countries around the world. It is one of the leading companies in the hotel industry. For a while now it has been carrying out a strong [...]
Biofuel: friend or foe?
Biofuels have gone from being called the “great green hope” to being considered an ecological problem. Why? The reason is that industrialized countries are only interested in biofuels because they are cheaper, and to them it doesn’t matter where these [...]
