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FOOD BEVERAGES AND HEALTH PRODUCTS
ETHANOL AND OTHER BIOFUELS
TREE-FREE PAPER AND CERTIFIED WOOD
Food Beverages and Health Products
Healthy Rainforests Mean Healthy Products
(And Vice Verse)
Just Some of the Natural Foods, Beverages, and Health Products RainTrust Will Help Bring to the Global Marketplace.
Brazil Nuts & Cashews
Organic Coffee & Coffee Products
Spring Water & "Enhanced" Bottled Water
Cocoa & Chocolate
Tropical Juices
Energy Drinks
Honey
Hearts of Palm
Medicinal Plants
Tropical Fruits, including Acai (the Super Antioxidant, Protein Fruit)
Healing Herbs & Medicinal Plants
They're Good for the Planet...and Good For You!
 
Healthy Rainforest Facts:
- At least 80% of the developed world's diet originated in the tropical rainforest. Its gifts to the world include 3000 fruits like avocados, coconuts, figs, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, bananas, guava, pineapples, and mangoes. Not to mention acai, the antioxidant "super fruit."
- 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, yet less than 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources.
- Of the 3000 plants the U.S. National Cancer Institute has identified as active against cancer cells, 70% are found in the rainforest.
- 25% of the active ingredients in today's cancer-fighting drugs come from organisms found only in the rainforest.
Ethanol and Other Biofeuls
Biofuels from the Rainforest
Alternative Sources of Energy that Could Power the Fight Against Global Warming.
Ethanol Biodiesel Biomass
Rainforests may also hold the key to providing the world with clean energy sources through the production of highly-efficient biofuels, including ethanol, biodiesel, and biomass.
With their year-round growing season, tropical rainforests have a valuable competitive advantage over the colder parts of the rest of the world. Brazil already produces approximately 4 billion gallons of ethanol a year from sugarcane, representing over 37% of the world's total. Because parts of the sugarcane plant are used both to fertilize the fields and to fire up the distilleries, ethanol made from sugarcane uses much less fossil fuel to produce ethanol than corn from Europe and America.
 
Another rainforest-grown biofuel source with significant potential is the fatty oil from kernels of the babassu nuts, which is similar to coconut oil. With further research and development, babassu biofuel may also have global applications as an alternative to petroleum.
The Raintrust Foundation will be supporting research and development of biofuels that can be extracted in an ecologically-sound manner, to help alleviate global fuel shortages while conserving the environment and improving the livelihoods of rainforest inhabitants.
Tree-Free Paper and Certified Wood
Reducing Forest Destruction By Increasing the Use of Tree-Free Paper and Certified Wood Products
One of the most obvious ways to protect our rainforests is by reducing the number of trees that are destroyed to feed our insatiable demand for lumber and paper products.
The RainTrust Foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and production of FSC Certified Wood products as well as tree-free paper made from renewable natural fibers. We support only low-impact, certified logging practices, in full accordance with the strict guidelines of The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), managing the forests under our protection in a socially and ecologically responsible way.
Paper Doesn't Only Grow on Trees
At least one out of every three trees harvested today ends up as pulp for making paper. Even majestic 1,000-year old trees can be sliced, shredded, pulverized, bleached, and pressed into flat sheets of paper.
To help meet that demand in a much more forest-friendly manner, RainTrust will train and support local rainforest people to develop a wide-range of 100% natural, "tree-free" paper products made from agricultural products like waste straw, kenaf, hemp, and the non-edible parts of pineapple plants. Some may even be made with traditional, hand-made Japanese "washi" techniques. And not a single tree will be cut down to produce them.
Reducing Forest Destruction By Increasing the Use of Tree-Free Paper and Certified Wood Products
One of the most obvious ways to protect our rainforests is by reducing the number of trees that are destroyed to feed our insatiable demand for lumber and paper products.
The RainTrust Foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and production of FSC Certified Wood products as well as tree-free paper made from renewable natural fibers. We support only low-impact, certified logging practices, in full accordance with the strict guidelines of The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), managing the forests under our protection in a socially and ecologically responsible way.
  
Paper Doesn't Only Grow on Trees
At least one out of every three trees harvested today ends up as pulp for making paper. Even majestic 1,000-year old trees can be sliced, shredded, pulverized, bleached, and pressed into flat sheets of paper.
To help meet that demand in a much more forest-friendly manner, RainTrust will train and support local rainforest people to develop a wide-range of 100% natural, "tree-free" paper products made from agricultural products like waste straw, kenaf, hemp, and the non-edible parts of pineapple plants. Some may even be made with traditional, hand-made Japanese "washi" techniques. And not a single tree will be cut down to produce them.
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