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.
The chief executives of 10 major U.S. corporations have joined together to call for immediate federal action to combat human-induced global warming, saying that voluntary efforts are inadequate to do the job.
The President would like to see the U.S. producing and using 35 billion gallons of so-called alternative fuels by 2017. But environmentalists are very unhappy with the Bush plan which would require putting an additional 129,000 square miles of farmland —an area the size of Kansas and Iowa—into corn production.
California artist Charles Carter literally returned to nature, shunning modern conveniences for years while living in a tipi to find the solitude and sanctuary that became his muse. His jewelry and paintings reflect the primitive spirit of the land.
Trees are important tools in the fight to stave off global warming, because they absorb and store the key greenhouse gas emitted by our cars and power plants, carbon dioxide (CO2), before it has a chance to reach the upper atmosphere where it can help trap heat around the Earth’s surface.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Los animales usados en las salas de clase para disección, ¿son salvajes? Y si lo son, ¿no pone esto en peligro a sus poblaciones? ¿Existen otros problemas relacionados con la disección en las escuelas?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuáles son los pros y contras de la acuacultura marina, de cultivar peces oceánicos en vez de cazarlos en su medio natural?
