January 2012
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Donations Stop Oil Drilling In a National Park in... →
The main goal of the Yasuni ITT Initiative is to stop the exploitation of the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador, 722 square miles of Amazonian rainforest. The initiative met its first goal to raise $100 million by December 30, 2011. In 2007, Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, agreed to stop extracting oil from Yasuni if half of the $7.6 billion in revenue the oil would have generated could be...
Dupont Building Innovations Achieves Zero Landfill... →
Dupont Building Innovations, Dupont’s building unit, achieved zero landfill status, the company announced on January 11, 2012. The company managed to send nothing to landfills by reducing, reusing and recycling manufacturing byproducts and waste at its manufacturing sites globally.