I have heard that wind power turbines kill a lot of birds, including migrating flocks, and that some people oppose wind power for that reason. If this is true, to what degree do they harm birds and what is being done about it?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué países que firmaron el Protocolo de Kioto, que estableció metas para reducir las emisiones que agudizan el calentamiento global, han cumplido o sobrepasado sus compromisos? Y ¿cuáles están fallando y por qué?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: He visto advertencias en las bolsas de carbón de parrilla que indicaban que se liberan materias carcinógenas cuando se queman las briquetas. ¿Es sano respirar dentro de la zona de olores de una parrillada al carbón?
Interest in cleaner and greener auto technology is exploding. From fuel cells to plug-in hybrids, the industry is showing more research and development zeal than at any time since the halcyon days of 1900, when gasoline, steam and electric vehicles (EVs) were competing in the marketplace.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Dónde puedo encontrar alternativas no contaminantes a los "riñoncitos de poliestireno" utilizados para empaquetar artículos frágiles?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuestan más construir y operar los edificios con diversas características "ecológicas" que los tradicionales?
As of the end of 2006, 169 countries had signed onto the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement forged in Kyoto, Japan in 1997 calling on the world”s industrialized nations to reduce emissions of so-called “greenhouse gases” thought to be contributing to global warming.
I am forever changed. It started in Guayaquil, Ecuador—the first stop on my journey to the Galapagos Islands on a study tour with 19 other teachers participating in the Toyota International Teacher Program. My question about cleanliness at one of the city’s renovated parks was answered with, "First you must change the people in their hearts and their minds. Then they will take care of what you can change with money." This profound statement was delivered on top of a double-decker tour bus by a guide whose name and face have already been lost to me, but I remember his words every day.
Environmentalists are livid about a recent policy re-interpretation by the Bush administration which grants endangered species protection to listed plants and animals only where they are struggling to survive and not in areas where their populations are healthy or have already died out.
Environmentalists are livid about a recent policy re-interpretation by the Bush administration which grants endangered species protection to listed plants and animals only where they are struggling to survive and not in areas where their populations are healthy or have already died out.
It is difficult to do an apples-to-apples cost comparison of a “green” structure against one that is not due to differences in design, materials and other factors, including the location.
Those little white polystyrene-foam packaging peanuts are nearly ubiquitous in our pack-and-ship culture, but they are no good for the environment, let alone human health. The basic building block of polystyrene is the non-recyclable chemical compound styrene
