Environment and the Climate Crisis

The Problem With Palm Oil: Global Issue, Local Solution?

June 9th, 2010  |  by karen  |  published in Environment and the Climate Crisis, Transnational Corporations

Activists from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) explain the devastating impact of palm oil production on the world’s last remaining rainforests. We follow the story from Indonesia to our local supermarkets and learn how local companies are implicated in rainforest destruction and what local consumers can do to stop it. (May)

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