Semana de 02/12/07

b>Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Adónde va toda la basura médica de laboratorios, de las oficinas de doctores y de los hospitales? ¿Sencillamente se mete a un barril y se entierra? ¿La descargan en los océanos? Con toda la basura que se genera probablemente sería interesante saber adónde van todos esos frascos llenos de sangre y de otras materias.

Querido DiálogoEcológico: El impacto de toda la pavimentación que se lleva a cabo para los nuevos caminos y estacionamientos debe ser considerable. Con excepción de la canción de Joni Mitchell "Pavimentaron el paraíso y pusieron un parque de estacionamiento", qué más involucra esta actividad que algún día podría convertirse en pesadilla ?

I’m in the market for new furniture

Upgrading to greener furniture is one of the healthiest things you can do for your family and the planet. Pictured here is an all-natural Alfred Loveseat from Furnature

The Blue Movement

E Magazine has a conversation with Wallace J. Nichols, who’s dedicated his life to bringing sea turtles back from the brink.

Canada Saves the Forest

Canada’s federal government last week announced that it is setting aside some 25.5 million acres of boreal forest and tundra in its remote Northwest Territories province as conservation land off-limits to development and resource extraction.

Still Seeking: Sustainable Palm Oil

The world’s major palm oil producers last week announced that they have created a new certification process to ensure ongoing sustainable production and the protection of the world’s remaining tropical rainforests.

Many foods like tuna and pet foods that formerly were sold

Food pouches, which are made from a combination of food-grade aluminum foil, plastic and adhesives, do appear to have some front-end environmental advantages over the cans they are increasingly replacing on supermarket shelves. However, they are not as easily recycled.

COMMENTARY: Have Yourself a Lead-Free Little Christmas…

There is a Grinch out there, trying to steal Christmas, and he lives in the People’s Republic of China. While Dr. Seuss" Grinch stole all the toys, this new Grinch has merely contaminated them. Though China isn’t diabolically plotting to rip out the heart of American culture, its unfettered capitalism has turned our marketplace into something akin to the lawless Wild West.

Gore Joins Top Shelf Venture Capital Firm

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the Silicon Valley venture capital firm famous for bankrolling such high-tech success stories as Sun Microsystems, Compaq Computer and Google, trotted out Al Gore as its newest partner.

More Bad News for Bears

The international non-profit World Conservation Union/IUCN added Asia’s sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), to its Red List of the planet’s most endangered species. Researchers estimate that only about 10,000 individual sun bears, the smallest of the world’s eight bear species, remain across the its Southeast Asian range from India to Indonesia.

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