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Gone Today, Here Tomorrow: How One Brazilian City Is Rescuing the Amazon

By Brian Winter, Luisa Leme

Why saving the Amazon is good for business, as well as the environment—a video by Americas Quarterly.

It's 2015, so we all know by now that protecting the rain forest is good for the environment. But it turns out it's good for business too, as this video shows.

The staff of Americas Quarterly traveled to Paragominas, Brazil and spent a few days talking to people about why a policy of "zero deforestation" has worked there. Our guide was Beto Veríssimo, the co-founder of Imazon, who wrote a ...

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