Currently there are no federal laws or regulations in the U.S. specifically aimed at getting fast food chains to reduce, reuse or recycle their waste. Businesses of all kinds must always obey local laws pertaining to what must be recycled versus what can be discarded.
<U>Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Son los recientes ciclones y sequías en Australia y otroas partes más evidencia del calentamiento global?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Productos lácteos como el yogurt siempre parecen venir en envases de baja reciclabilidad (con etiqueta #5, que nuestra municipalidad no acepta). ¿Por qué no se hacen estos contenedores más reciclables? ¿Es que no existe otro tipo de envase que sea más ecológico para este uso?
There are many eco-benefits to replacing oil with bio-fuels like ethanol and biodiesel. For one, since such fuels are derived from agricultural crops, they are inherently renewable—a°nd our own farmers typically produce them domestically
Four Greenpeace activists locked themselves together in the Canadian headquarters of Kimberly-Clark last week, demanding that the U.S.-based paper company stop using virgin pulp from Canada’s boreal forests in its popular products.
The troubled Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is set to expire in 2012. With American sentiment for action on global warming building rapidly, environmentalists are focusing on drafting a follow-up agreement on which even holdouts like the U.S. and Australia can agree.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last December that the agency will likely approve the sale of cloned foods this year. The FDA’s action flies in the face of widespread scientific concern about the risks of food from clones, and ignores the animal cruelty and troubling ethical concerns that the cloning process brings. What’s worse, the FDA indicates that it will not require labeling on cloned food, so consumers will have no way to avoid these experimental foods.
The natural gas-powered Honda Civic topped the Greenest Vehicles of 2007 list released last week by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). Second and third spots went to Toyota’s hybrid Prius and Honda’s Civic Hybrid.
Illegal logging across parts of Southeast Asia, including in national parks, is decimating wildlife populations. The orangutan is at particular risk. According to a recent report by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), 98 percent of remaining forests on Sumatra and Borneo could be gone by 2022, with serious consequences for local people and wildlife.
The natural alliance between religious and secular environmentalists is happening in thousands of local contexts where secularists and people of faith work together to resist climate change, toxic waste disposal and destructive economic "development." Facing the same environmental crisis that their secular counterparts do, people of faith have been changing their basic attitudes towards nature and seeing the moral connections between our treatment of nature and our treatment of people.
Are the recent cyclones and droughts in Australia and elsewhere more evidence of global warming?
