babassu

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• The movement is fighting for the conservation of threatened groves of babassu palm.
• On Sunday, Virgin Airlines flew a jumbo jet from London to Amsterdam powered in part by coconuts ( "a biofuel mixture of coconut and babassu oil" to be more precise). Andrew Winston: Virgin Air Flying on Fumes?
• Mrs. Lopes rallied the women to stand in the path of a bulldozer bearing down on their babassu palm forest. At Brazil's Museum of the Person, 10,000 Voices Tell a Nation's Story
• One partnership is with the Maranhao tribe of northeast Brazil, who harvest babassu nuts (from Amazonian palm trees), which are used as a cleansing agent in some Aveda shampoos.
• Other airlines have already tested algae and oil from the jatropha plant and the babassu nut. CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2009
• The plane's one engine flew successfully using fuel derived from a mixture of Brazilian babassu nuts and coconuts. Stefanie Michaels: Virgin America Joins EPA Climate Leaders Program
• People and the Palm Forest: Biology and utilization of babassu palms in Maranhão, Brazil. Maranhão Babaçu forests
• The rubs harness the soothing properties of babassu oil (harvested from the Amazonian babassu palm) and essential oils.
• In the northeastern region of Brazil, near the Amazon, indigenous women harvest nuts from babassu palms.
• The babassu palm, which grows in the Brazilian Amazon, is harvested sustainably to provide a natural oil for use in Aveda hair conditioners and as a cleansing ingredient in shampoos.