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"In 1997, we saw the devastating effect of forest fires in indonesia, exacerbated by the Pacific's El Nino warming effect. According to the World Wildlife Fund, more forests were burned around the world in 1997 than in any other year in recorded history. At least 12 million acres of forest and scrub ?an area nearly the size of England —burned in indonesia and Brazil, along with vast areas of Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Peru, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, and the Congo." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Initially discovered at the deserted Water Palace of indonesia, an erstwhile harem, the keppel was once used as an aphrodisiac by the sultans and their odalisques. It was also rumored to make excrement and urine smell like violets. Whitman decided to test this hypothesis: "I got paper cups and every hour I'd do a little thing in a paper cup and smell it?hell, it never smelled like perfume the way they say. To read their versions, they say that if you eat a couple of keppel apples, every time you pee you can fill up a couple of perfume bottles—well, it ain't so." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The porch was furnished with exotic teak furniture from indonesia. They fell in love with it. Within six months they took a trip to indonesia and brought back a variety of teak furniture. What they didn't keep, they quickly sold to friends and neighbors. They loved the furniture and liked the idea that, by importing and selling it, they could support a local economy making natural products half a world away. They started buying trailers of furniture, selling it at home and garden shows." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"The products themselves continue to be manufactured entirely in East and South-East Asia (specifically, in China, indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand). In marketing terms, however, Haw Par Healthcare Limited fairly successfully makes the best of both worlds, East and West. Its corporate literature asserts: 'Tiger Balm is not an ancient Chinese concoction, but a modern efficacious medication." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "In 1662 at the Dutch settlement in Batavia (nowJakarta, indonesia), the minister Hermann Busschof took to his bed: 'I laboured under an extraordinary pain in both my knees and feet, not knowing whither to turn my self for pain, having used in vain all those means by which I had formerly found some ease.'1 Busschofs extended attack drove him to desperate measures. After six weeks of agony and sleeplessness, Busschof was persuaded 'to suffer an Indian Doctress to come to me, (whom my wife commonly employed for the curing of our slaves...)'." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Voon tells me that this haze sticks around for months at a time, the result of forest fires in indonesia. The devastation of these ancient forests has tragic consequences. Nomadic tribes, like the Penan, who used to survive on wild tree fruits can no longer maintain their traditional lifestyles. As their feeding spots have vanished, Malaysian officials have focused on assimilating them. Abdul Raham Yakub, a former chief minister of Sarawak, has said, "I would rather see them eating McDonald's hamburgers than the unmentionables they eat in thejungle." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Turkey aim Thailand mm Korea, Republic of _ Philippines ?Indonesia mm Poland mm Iran, Islamic Republic of ?Spain _ Nigeria Canada _ United Kingdom _ i_i_I_i_i_ 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Billions of ID and millions of people with diabetes Figure 11: Annual health expenditure for diabetes (international dollars) compared to people with diabetes in the twenty-five countries with the largest numbers of people with diabetes in 2007 Government budgets worldwide will face the immense strain of diabetes care on disability payments, pensions, social and medical service, and revenue loss." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"After bidding farewell to Shunyam Nirav, I catch a flight to indonesia. Fruits play an important role in the sacred life of Bali, a predominantly Hindu island in an otherwise mainly Islamic archipelago. Shrines abound, plants are dwelling places for supernatural forces and the landscape sparkles with divine potential. The Balinese live equally in two worlds: sekala, the seen physical world; and niskala, the invisible spirit world. Fruits, in Balinese ritual, inhabit a zone that is somewhere between the two." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"China, India, indonesia, and Bangladesh make up two-thirds of the world's rice production. The United States ranks eleventh in production but is a major exporter. In the U.S., the top rice producers include Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Why Should I Eat Brown Rice? Rice is often the first solid food offered to an infant. It is the least allergenic grain and that is why it is often recommended as a first introductory food." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"England —burned in indonesia and Brazil, along with vast areas of Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Peru, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, and the Congo. Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud, head of the fund's forest program and one of the report's authors, said, "1997 will be remembered as the year the world caught fire." No one really knows what the long-term effects will be. The rainforests are an important organ of the biosphere and exert a considerable influence on the earth's climate. Moreover, the destroyed areas cannot easily be reclaimed." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The principle producer of cloves is Zanzibar in East Africa. indonesia, Sumatra, Jamaica, West Indies, and Brazil are the world's other top producers. Why Should I Eat Clove? Cloves contain manganese, vitamins C and K, magnesium, calcium, and fiber. Cloves also contain eugenol, a substance helpful for relieving pain, killing bacteria, and reducing inflammation. Home Remedies Make a paste from one-quarter teaspoon clove powder and one teaspoon cinnamon oil. Apply this to the forehead for headaches or to any other painful area." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Chinese cinnamon (cassia) is mainly grown in China, Vietnam, and indonesia. Why Should I Eat Cinnamon? Cinnamon is a source of manganese, iron, calcium, and fiber and contains cinnamaldehyde, cinnamyl acetate, and cinnamyl alcohol, substances that work as antioxidants in the body. Cinnamaldehyde reduces stickiness of platelets. Home Remedies The Chinese have believed that consuming cinnamon will improve your complexion and give you a youthful appearance." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"The flesh serves many functions: in Malaysia, it is blended into face-whitening creams; in Pakistan, it is used as an aphrodesiac; in indonesia, it is added to cough syrups. One Middle Eastern businessman pays Island Scent to ship loads of shells to El Paso, Texas, where they are then smuggled underground into Mexico to be inlaid with Arabic designs, motifs and letters. Called kashkuls, they are sold to homeowners and mosques in Kuwait and Iran. "Coco-de-mers have long been used in rituals by Persian fakirs and Indian mendicants," explains Kantilal Jivan Shah." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Bjerknes's hypothesis began with the assumption that the normal sea surface temperature gradient between the relatively cold eastern equatorial Pacific and the huge pool of warm water in the western Pacific as far west as indonesia causes a huge east-west circulation cell on about the plane of the equator. Dry air sinks gently over the cold eastern Pacific. Then it flows westward along the equator as part of the southeast trade wind system. The western "push" that drives this movement comes from atmospheric pressure that is higher in the east and lower in the west." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Then, one day, the clouds open with scattered showers, then a deluge of rain, as the monsoon bursts over Southeast Asia and indonesia. Life-bringing moisture waters the fields and fills irrigation canals for another year. The upward-rising warm air creates a vacuum, which draws in cooler air from the east to replace it. The northeast trades strengthen in response, pushing yet more warm water to the west." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Clear skies and little evaporation bring searing droughts to Australia and indonesia while rain clouds form over the Galapagos Islands and the arid Peruvian coast. A hundred years' rain can fall in a few days. In 1982-1983 the Galapagos Islands received 2,770 millimeters of rain, almost six times the normal amount. The number of flightless cormorants fell by 45 percent, while 78 percent of the rare Galapagos penguins perished." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Between April and June 1815, Mount Tambora, a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in indonesia, erupted massively. The explosion was heard in Sumatra, sixteen hundred kilometers away. Only twenty-six of the island's twelve thousand people survived. Ash clouds fell in Java, over five hundred kilometers away. Tambora was the largest volcanic eruption in modern times. The exploding volcano pumped into the atmosphere ten times the amount of ash pro- duced by the notorious Krakatoa." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The largest producing countries are Cote dTvoire, Ghana, and indonesia. The Criollo variety is found in Ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Sri Lanka. Forastero, which means "foreigner" in Spanish, is now the predominant variety cultivated in Africa. Trinitario is grown mainly in Trinidad. Why Should I Eat Cocoa? Cocoa beans contain minerals such as magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, potassium, and manganese. They also contain vitamins A, Bl, B2, B3, C, E, and pantothenic acid." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"The hijacked ship would then be wired with explosives and directed toward other vessels, a port, or a narrow and congested waterway around indonesia. ?On December 20, 2004, Spanish media reported that North African terrorists associated with al Qaeda planned to conduct suicide boat attacks on supertankers bound for the Canary Islands. ?On January 12, 2005, a duffel bag filled with several pounds of explosives was found a few hundred meters from Europe's largest port in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The bag reportedly did not contain a detonation device." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Habitat: Indigenous to the forests of indonesia and the Malaysian peninsula. Cultivated mainly on Java, in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Production: Curcuma is cultivated and harvested in the second year of growth. After the rhizome has been washed, the main thick root is isolated, cut and dried at a temperature of 50°C." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"On top of that, this goal has been put forward at a time when religious Educating girls and empowering women is critical to creating strong communities, Jakarta, indonesia. fundamentalists are increasingly trying to restrict women's freedom. Nevertheless, efforts are in motion. The World Food Program provides students in developing nations where chronic hunger is a problem with one meal per day at school—and provides one way to get girls into the classroom. In families for whom food is scarce, the best is usually saved for the primary breadwinner—generally the father—and the sons." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "In Kenya, vij'iji. In indonesia, permukiman liar or kampung liar. In French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean, bidonvilles. They are the most dynamic parts of the fastest-growing cities in the world—self-built, self-designed, and self-motivated. They are squatter neighborhoods: shanty-town communities created when people take over land they don't own. In English, many call them slums. And, frozen in time, the word fits. Take a snapshot in any of the world's shantytowns and you'll capture degraded and dilapidated communities." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Within six months they took a trip to indonesia and brought back a variety of teak furniture. What they didn't keep, they quickly sold to friends and neighbors. They loved the furniture and liked the idea that, by importing and selling it, they could support a local economy making natural products half a world away. They started buying trailers of furniture, selling it at home and garden shows. One thing led to another and soon they had eight teak furniture stores along the east coast of the United States. Sarah and Jesse weren't happy with how the business was going." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.) "Their manufacturer in indonesia was always late delivering furniture. They frequently sent shipments that were short of merchandise, and what did come was often damaged. Sarah had to refund people's money and they were losing customers because promises couldn't be kept. Jesse told me they struggled to pay their bills and he often woke up in the middle of the night, worrying. I heard Jesse admit that he thought all this was normal. "It's impossible to get good help, suppliers can't be trusted, and so you deal with it the best you can." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.) "Richter scale cracked open the seabed off Indonesia's Sumatra Island. What followed was a giant tsunami causing a great loss of life, not only in the beach communities near the epicenter of the earthquake, but also in coastal villages up to 1,500 miles away. One video, shot by a tourist standing on the balcony of his hotel, showed a massive wave crashing through the trees at the edge of a resort beach while a small group of people a hundred yards inland were standing around the pool, chatting and sipping their beverages, completely unaware of what was about to happen." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"After the 2004 tsunami, two MapAid volunteers provided GIS training to a group of students at the University of Syiah Kuala in Bande Aceh, indonesia. Additionally, the organization provided data-collection equipment that had been retrofitted to withstand the region's high temperatures and humidity, jc & as Strong Angel mmmm In May 2000 a refugee camp materialized on a barren lava bed on the Big Island of Hawaii." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Found today in other tropical regions such as indonesia, Australia and west Africa. Production: Azedrach bark, leaves and seeds are the trunk and branch bark, leaves and seeds of Azadirachta indica or of the closely related variety (in the literature often given as a synonym) of Melia azedarach." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"These illegal loggers are like terrorists," said Nabiel Makarim, the former environment minister of indonesia, referring to massive unlawful clear-cutting that has turned seasonal rains into deadly flash floods and landslides, displacing thousands, and creating a humanitarian crisis.23 "It is difficult to combat illegal logging because we must face financial backers and their shameless protectors." Makarim confessed to the Jakarta Post that the government "does not have a clue" how to combat rampant illegal logging." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Can you really imagine that such an organization does not know whether or not its workforce in indonesia or Silicon Valley has greater risks of breast cancer and leukemia? Can you believe that Pratt & Whitney—one of the largest and most profitable makers of airplane engines in the world—does not know whether or not its workers have higher rates of brain cancer than the general population? According to the company's website, Pratt & Whitney engines power nearly half of the world's commercial fleet." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"In the past, this fluke was limited to Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. However, with worldwide travel and the importation of contaminated foods and animals, this intestinal fluke is now infecting people worldwide and is spreading rapidly." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

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