May 2011

Semana del 22/5/11

Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Con toda la discusión acerca de la necesidad de fuentes seguras y renovables de energía, no es lo obvio realmente que debemos utilizar mucho menos energía que lo que hacemos? ¿No ayudaría implementar más reglamentos de conservación (como no dejar prendidas las luces de edificios toda la noche)?

Querido DiálogoEcológico: Oí a alguien decir que legalizar la marihuana—como los californianos consideraron hacerlo el año pasado—beneficiaría el ambiente. ¿Cómo sería eso?

Dolphin Health After Oil Spill

Dear EarthTalk: How are wild dolphins faring on the high seas? Recent reports of dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico may well be due to last year’s BP oil spill, but I imagine there are many threats to dolphins from pollution, human overfishing and other causes.

Amtrak, Meet Thomas

Photos by David Adams Does the Toy Juggernaut Bode Well for the Future of Rail? May 7 was National Train Day, an Amtrak-sponsored holiday on which rail enthusiasts gather to geek out on signals and switches, club cars and coal tenders. My three-year old son Simon has more than a passing fondness for railroads, inspired […]

The True Price of Gold

The rising price of gold has led to a 600% increase in deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon to make way for gold mining.

Semana del 15/5/11

Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuán sana es la soja? Oí que, a pesar de su imagen sana, la mayoría de las sojas se cultivan con sustancias químicas como otras cosechas e incluso son modificadas genéticamente.

Querido DiálogoEcológico: Nuestra comunidad está hablando de “adelgazar” las manadas locales de venados. Francamente pienso que son los seres humanos los que están superpoblados, ocupando hasta la última pulgada de hábitat. ¿Qué sucede cuándo al final urbanizamos todo? ¡Pow! ¿Allí vaya el último ciervo?

Energy Conservation

Dear EarthTalk: With all the talk of the need for safe, renewable energy sources, isn’t the elephant in the room really that we should use far less energy than we do? Wouldn’t more rules about conservation (like not leaving commercial building lights on all night) make the challenges easier?

Our Choice

An app for Al Gore’s book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis represents a digital leap forward in interactive book publishing, with audio, video, maps, charts and photos. Al Gore’s newest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, now available for download on iTunes, is leagues beyond your typical […]

A Wake-Up Story

A short video from the nonprofit Healthy Child Healthy World lays out the problem of chemical contamination in our homes and products.A short video from the nonprofit Healthy Child Healthy World does a masterful job of simply laying out the problem of chemical contamination in our homes and products. It begins with the idea of […]

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