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We're also cutting a Forest Service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival.
WHITEHOUSE: Budgeting for a New Era of Responsibility
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His challenge was to confront an entire economic system based on exploiting the forest for its animals.
BBC: Saluting 'local heroes of conservation'
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"In international debates about climate change, for example, we will know how much forest we have and what state it is in (...), we'll discover species, and gain knowledge about species becoming extinct, as well as information about the distribution of the forest and its potential economic use", Ms Teixeira said.
BBC: Brazil to survey Amazon rainforest
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Those who believe the Olympics can bring lasting change to a city -- beyond the spike in economic activity during the event -- are often misguided, suggested economist Rob Baade of Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois.
CNN: Olympic 'nopes' beat out hope in Chicago
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"As you see forest loss continue, as you see the depletion of rivers, you are undercutting the foundation for economic development in those countries, " he said.
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