Women of ancient cultures couldn’t buy feminine hygiene products at the supermarket or drugstore chain, so they improvised, fashioning them instead out of various natural and biodegradable materials—from papyrus and wool to grasses and vegetable fibers. Modern women, however, have relied on a variety of disposable products that create significant after-use waste and can also be dangerous to their health.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cómo puedo aprender a construir una "casa ecológica"? Mi esposa y yo tenemos un terreno en Delaware y nos gustaría construir una casa ecológica en el sitio de acuerdo a las últimas técnicas disponibles.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Me estoy mudando en ocho semanas y estoy tratando de encontrar algunas sugerencias "verdes" para hacer mi muda tan amiga al ambiente como sea posible. ¿Sugerencias?
Moving may be inherently unfriendly to the environment given that carting stuff around means expending lots of fuel and emitting a lot of pollutants, but there are ways to “relocate responsibly.”
A study released last week in the peer-reviewed journal Science shows that humans have domesticated the planet to such an extent that little true wilderness remains.
Conservationists from two nonprofits, the World Wide Fund for Nature and Conservation International, announced last week the recent discovery of a population of at least 116 highly endangered gray-shanked douc monkeys in a remote part of Vietnam.
Forget about listening into the conch shell to hear the sounds of the ocean, right now one of the best ways to learn about current news in the marine world is by tuning into Blue Frontier Campaign’s Blue Notes.
There are many ideas as to what constitutes an “eco-home,” depending upon how pure one wants to be. But certain common elements—such as energy efficiency, responsible materials sourcing and minimal landscape disruption
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuál es la situación con los esfuerzos de protección de tortugas marinas? ¿No es verdad que muchas de ellas mueren en las redes a la deriva y están actualmente al borde de la extinción?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuánta polución generan las motocicletas? ¿Se están haciendo esfuerzos para hacerles más respetuosas del medioambiente?
Just this past May, as part of a larger effort to make New York the “greenest major metropolis on the planet,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an ambitious plan to switch over the city’s 13,000-vehicle taxi cab fleet from gas guzzling traditional cars to (comparatively) fuel-sipping gasoline-electric hybrids.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made it official last week: the bald eagle is no longer listed as threatened under the nation’s landmark Endangered Species Act (ESA).
