With some 30 to 50 million Americans suffering from various degrees of lactose intolerance, and an estimated three million of us now eating animal-free (vegan) diets for humane, environmental and/or health reasons, the production of alternatives to dairy products has started to become big business.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué es "turismo basado en comunidad" y cómo pretende éste salvaguardar lugares prístinos?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuantas veces necesito realmente cambiar el aceite de mi coche? ¿La creencia popular sostiene que debe hacerse cada 3.000 millas para prevenir desgaste del motor, pero no es el cambio de aceite tan frecuente derrochador e innecesario? También, ¿cuál es el "aceite más ecológico" y más duradero que debo utilizar?
T. Boone Pickens has a lot to say about energy conservation these days. Jay Hakes, former head of the Energy Information Administration, weighs in on the American oil tycoon’s "mighty big solutions to some mighty big problems."
Researchers with the nonprofit Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced last week that they had discovered some 125,000 western lowland gorillas in the Republic of Congo.
The State of Alaska filed suit in federal court last week seeking to overturn the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s decision to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Community based tourism refers to situations in which local people—usually those that are poor or economically marginalized in very rural parts of the world—open up their homes and communities to visitors seeking sustainably achieved cultural, educational or recreational travel experiences.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Quisiera saber como la "tarifa de peaje de congestión" usada en algunas ciudades alrededor del mundo reduce el tráfico y promueve el transporte colectivo favorable al medio ambiente?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: He leído que las botellas plásticas presentan riesgos al ser reutilizadas repetidamente pues ciertos productos químicos dañosos pueden filtrarse en el contenido. Me pregunto si las mismas cuestiones plagan el Tupperware y otros envases similares de almacenaje plásticos de alimento.
A leading environmental group has found that 2007 was the second worst year in recent history for beach closures due to high pollution levels.
Both houses of Congress last week agreed on compromise legislation to ban certain toxic chemicals known as phthalates from products intended for use by children.
Before Feb. 16, 2005, Irvine, Calif. was just the first city to curbside recycle. And the first city in the world to ban CFC"s. But with a donated 1,347 acres of open land through the sale of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, Irvine will now have the first great national park of the 21st century.
