Rainforest and Palm Oil

• Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Deforestation Free Vegetable Oils – current news
  • Recipes for Success: Solutions for Deforestation-Free Vegetable Oils (pdf)
  • Scientists and NGOs: Deforestation and Degradation Responsible for Approximately 15 Percent of Global Warming Emissions, Nov. 6, 2009.
• United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service
  Oil Seeds: World Markets and Trade
  Statistics on world-wide production and trade in vegetable oil crops.
• The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) EurekAlert news service
  Oil Palm Surging Source of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, April 2012.
• Mongabay.com
  Palm Oil – extensive commentary on palm oil and deforestation issues (2006, updated in 2008).
• DeforestACTION
  dfa.tigweb.org – Youth education program on rainforest issues.
• Wikipedia
  • Greenhouse gas emissions
  • Palm Kernel Oil and Palm Oil
  • Rainforest
  • Vegetable fats and oils
• World Wildlife Fund
  Indigenous People and Communal Lands: [Part A] [Part B]
• Dollars & Sense
  • Oil-Palm Plantations on Afro-Colombian Lands (D&S, July-Aug. 2007, pp. 28-34).
  • Oil-Palm Plantations on Afro-Colombian Lands: An Exchange (D&S, Nov.-Dec. 2007, pp. 6-7).

Liza Heavener in Borneo
Liza has been part of a young adult work group in the rainforest of Borneo in Fall 2011 and Spring 2012.

• DeforestACTION is the sponsoring organization for the work group.
  Earth Watchers is the rainforest student monitoring project
• Heels to Boots – Liza’s Borneo blog
  
• Liza Heavener – Going ‘Off the Grid’ – Eastern Mennonite University.

Other Resources

• Energy Alternatives
• Earthkeeping