Kids” shoes are a quickly expanding market and companies with a green perspective are now jumping into the race with mini versions of everything from flip-flops to slippers to heeled dress shoes. While green kids” shoes from makers like Simple, which offers organic cotton EcoSneaks with car tire soles
During the school week, Sam Allen will sometimes skip his classes at Connecticut’s Weston High School and walk to the elementary or middle school down the street. One morning in February, he made his way into Weston Elementary School struggling with a green bag and six poster boards all while listening to music on his iPhone and answering calls. When he reached the second floor, he introduced himself to a class of fourth-graders and proceeded to tell them how they can help to save the planet.
During the school week, Sam Allen will sometimes skip his classes at Connecticut’s Weston High School and walk to the elementary or middle school down the street. One morning in February, he made his way into Weston Elementary School struggling with a green bag and six poster boards all while listening to music on his iPhone and answering calls. When he reached the second floor, he introduced himself to a class of fourth-graders and proceeded to tell them how they can help to save the planet.
Last week, the federal government announced it had come to terms with four Indian tribes, agreeing to pay some $900 million to spur the recovery of endangered wild salmon runs across the Pacific Northwest.
The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) reported that 1.8 million acres of private land within 55 existing U.S. national parks—so-called "in-holdings"—are on the National Park Service’s "wish list."
Whether wildlife officials in a given region consider a dead beached whale a biohazard or not is local decision, but nevertheless experts agree that only trained professionals should go anywhere near a dead wild animal to prevent the spread of bacterial infection alone
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cómo puedo descubrir qué mariscos debo evitar si me preocupa la disminución de mi impacto sobre el ambiente y evitar consumir agentes contaminadores malsanos?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Por qué se dice que ésas comunidades tipo "nuevo urbanismo" que están surgiendo alrededor de los E.E.U.U. son más respetuosas del medio ambiente que las urbanizaciones suburbanas tradicionales?
The husband-and-wife team of town planners Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are typically credited as the founders of new urbanism, a style of community design that embraces mixed use (commercial and residential) development in pedestrian-friendly and green space-rich neighborhoods—much like the old neighborhoods many baby-boomers remember before suburban sprawl made us all slaves to our cars.
The International Elephant Foundation, a nonprofit corporation working to support the long-term survival of elephants, has announced a slew of new conservation initiatives. This year, 15 projects will be aimed at habitat protection, anti-poaching, ecotourism, environmental education, veterinary medicine and the reduction of human-elephant conflict.
Last week, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that the Bush administration was waiving compliance with some 30 environmental and land management laws to expedite the completion of a 470-mile-long fence along the U.S./Mexico border to keep illegal immigration in check.
