Today’s Solutions: December 15, 2025

In this year’s Organic Top 20, we feature Treetap’s Wild Rubber Handbags and Oro Verde’s Green Gold – two products that help conserve the Amazone rainforest. Find out how these companies are creating products focusing on social environmental sustainability. Read exclusive excerpts from the book Amazon Your Business by Dutch conservationist Meindert Brouwer here.

| April 2008 issue

Book: Amazon Your Business / Opportunities and solutions in the rainforestAmazon Your Business is the first ever guide to sustainable Amazon products from the rainforests and rivers of all Amazon countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname.

Click here to buy this book: www.amazonyourbusiness.nl.

Amazon Your Business / Opportunities and solutions in the rainforest
a Meindert Brouwer publication designed by Studio Olykan, Amsterdam.
Photography Green Gold Story: Ronald de Hommel.

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