palm oil

The Sumatran Orangutan is critically endangered and the Bornean Orangutan's population is just 14% of 50 years ago. Their habitat is increasingly under threat due to illegal logging, forest fires, mining and most critically convertion of forest to palm oil plantations. Find out what you can do to help save the Orangutan!

The goal of the Dove Self Esteem Fund is to change “the current, narrow definition of beauty.” As much as I agree with this goal, there is a downside. Unilever imports palm oil from Indonesia, where rainforests and tropical peatlands are destroyed.

Where the EU once rushed-in to embrace biofuel as the answer to CO2 emmissions, they are now stopping in their tracks and rethinking the situation.

Biofuel was once seen as an easy alternative to producing greener vehicles, it was thought that simply fuelling the same old vehicles with “greener” fuel would be the answer...

Neste Oil plans to invest approximately US$ 813 million in building a plant in Singapore to produce NExBTL Renewable Diesel. The plant will be the largest facility producing diesel fuel from renewable feedstocks anywhere.

Cosmetics company Lush has created a palm oil free soap, Greenwash. They are hoping to phase out use of palm oil in their soaps over the next year.

Events in Indonesia have stepped up apace, and the Rainbow Warrior is currently blockading a tanker in the port of Dumai in Sumatra.

It is estimated that orangutans could be extinct in the wild within 12 years - and your choice of bread, chips, lipstick or soap is the cause. The rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra and elsewhere are being cleared to make way for plantations growing palm oil, a cheap ubiquitous ingredient in many foods and cosmetics, and a major bio-diesel crop.