Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué significa que un edificio tenga "certificación LEED"? ¿Es que quiere decir que es un edificio "verde"?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué es una "isla de calor urbana"? Y ¿tiene algo que ver con el Calentamiento Global?
Why aren’t dairy containers more recyclable? And isn’t there a more eco-friendly container these companies could use?
The day after President Bush’s State of the Union Address, Greenpeace released the findings of its “energy revolution” report, debunking the President’s proposals for “clean coal” & “safe nuclear power” and a heavy reliance on ethanol.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held hearings to look into allegations that climate scientists at seven federal agencies were subjected to political pressure in order to play down the threat of global warming. Scientists said their reports on climate had been edited to suit political purposes and that references to "climate change" or "global warming" had been removed.
The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, a collaboration between the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and Pew Oceans Commission, last week issued its U.S. Ocean Policy Report Card for 2006. The United States received an overall grade of C- on efforts to protect the nation’s ocean waters and marine ecosystems, a minor improvement over last year’s D+.
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC”s) national program for certifying environmentally sustainable design, construction and resource use practices for the American building industry.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué árboles a plantar son mejores para combatir el calentamiento global?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Figura le educación ambientalista en forma prominente en las salas de clases en estos días? Quiero decir por ello no solamente cuestiones de ciencia sino una comprensión de los problemas claves y el deber de custodia ecológica.
An urban heat island is a metropolitan area that is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas. Unlike global warming, which entails a worldwide rise in temperatures, heat islands occur at the local level.
Considered the most destructive fishing technology ever devised, commercial “drift netting” involves vertically suspending near-transparent nylon nets in ocean waters with floats attached to the top and weights fixed to the bottom.
Environmental education has long struggled for legitimacy alongside more traditional disciplines within the liberal arts and sciences. But “environmental literacy” studies in the late 1980s revealed that schoolchildren lacked basic knowledge about the natural environment.
