How To Use Babassu In A Sentence
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In the northeastern region of Brazil, near the Amazon, indigenous women harvest nuts from babassu palms.
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Since then, the MIQCB has successfully pushed for passage of several municipal laws that have guaranteed the quebradeiras access to babassu palm trees on both public and privately-owned land.
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I was interested to see that Virgin Atlantic flew a 747 from London's Heathrow Airport to Amsterdam, fueled partly by coconuts and Brazilian babassu nuts.
READING AND DANCING BETWEEN THE LINES
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Some 400,000 women and their families living on the eastern edge of the Amazon jungle depend on the babassu palm (Orbignya phalerata) for a livelihood.
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The shampoo cleanses fine hair with organic coconut and babassu oils and contains calendula, honey and marshmallow to give life to limp strands.
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I've never seen a babassu nut, but it's amazing that it helped power an airplane the size of a 747.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Then exchange sensual massages with exotic babassu oil from the Amazon - tinged with essential oils of orange, sandalwood and frankincense.
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Virgin Atlantic in 2008 became the first airline to fly with biofuel—in that instance derived from coconut and babassu palm oil that was used in a 20% mix in one of the Boeing 747's four fuel tanks.
Virgin Australia Researching Eucalyptus Leaves As Jet Fuel
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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.
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The movement is fighting for the conservation of threatened groves of babassu palm.
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The rubs harness the soothing properties of babassu oil (harvested from the Amazonian babassu palm) and essential oils.
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People and the Palm Forest: Biology and utilization of babassu palms in Maranhão, Brazil.
Maranhão Babaçu forests
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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
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Other airlines have already tested algae and oil from the jatropha plant and the babassu nut.
CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2009
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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.
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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
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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?