http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/3551 Comments for "AmazonLife - Natural Latex" en http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/3551 <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-6"><table class="actable" width="470px" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr><td class="actable-left" width="175px" valign="top"> <div class="flexinode-textfield-23"> <strong>Managing Organization: </strong> AmazonLife<br /><br /> </div> <div class="flexinode-image-32"><br /> <img alt="AmazonLife - Natural Latex" src="http://www.nextbillion.net/files/AmazonLife_logo.jpg" /><br /><br /> </div> <div class="flexinode-textfield-38"> <strong>Activity URL: </strong> <dd><a href="http://www.amazonlife.com.br/store/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.amazonlife.com.br/store/</a></dd><br /><br /> </div> <td width="295px" valign="top" align="left"> <div class="flexinode-textarea-22"> <strong>Activity Description: </strong> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.amazonlife.com.br/store/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.amazonlife.com/store/images/img03.jpg" border="0" width="168" height="110" align="right" />AmazonLife</a> harnesses the power of business to produce Haute Couture products that support local communities and conserve the environment. In the early 1990s, João Augusto Fortes and Beatriz Saldanha, cofounders of Brazil’s first eco-product store <a href="http://www.tve.org/ho/doc.cfm?aid=1349" target="_blank">EcoMercado</a>, found value in a natural rubber material extracted from the Amazon region of Acre. Rubber production worldwide was shifting from natural latex to oil-based chemicals and from small scale rubber tapping to large plantations. This forced many rubber tappers to shift to commodities markets such as timber and cattle, causing vast degradation of the forests.<br class="clear" /></div> </td> </tr> </table> </div><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/3551">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/3551#comment Agriculture Activity Business Development Activity Consumer Products Activity Miscellaneous Activity Active Brazil Consumer For-profit Activity Private Investment Funded Latin America Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:11:32 -0500 Seema Patel 3551 at http://www.nextbillion.net