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Semana de 31/12/06

Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Me estoy mudando a un apartamento recién pintado y me gustaría saber si sería una buena idea repintar las murallas con pintura no tóxica para "cubrir" los materiales tóxicos ya empotrados ahí. ¿Es demasiado tarde, en su opinión?

Querido DiálogoEcológico: He oído el término "cinturones verdes" en relación a las barreras naturales costeras de la India., Malasia y Sri Lanka que protegieron a algunas personas durante lo peor del maremoto en el Oceáno Indico. ¿Pero qué son los "cinturones verdes" en las áreas urbanas?

Court Challenge Reverses EPA’s Weakening of Smog Rules

A coalition of environmental groups and individual states cheered last week when a federal appeals court overturned a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to weaken limits on smog pollution generated by large power plants and factories in urban areas across the country.

White House Calls for Threatened Listing for Polar Bears

In what many environmentalists consider an about-face on both endangered species and global warming, the Bush administration last week announced that it would recommend listing America’s polar bears as threatened under the nation’s Endangered Species Act.

COMMENTARY: Nuclear Waste: A Mountain of Questions

The fact that nuclear waste is the most toxic substance on the planet may be lost on those who vehemently call for the country to pour its resources into creating more plants. And the U.S. currently has no viable near-term storage options for nuclear waste which continues to pollute for generations.

I understand that you can run a diesel car on used cooking oil

The use of vegetable oil for diesel fuel has grown in popularity in recent years, thanks to both high fuel prices and ecological concerns. Analysts estimate that some 5,000 North Americans have converted their diesel cars or trucks to run on vegetable oil in the last few years alone.

Finding the Stars: A Review of There Once Was a Sky Full of Stars

When he’s not designing colorful inlays for guitars, Bob Crelin is a light pollution activist in Connecticut who helped push through a landmark bill to dim the nighttime glare in his shoreline town. Our ancestors knew thousands of stars in the evening sky, but now we’re lucky if we can identify a dozen—and the culprit […]

Scientists Take A Stand

A review of Undermining Science, Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration by Richard N. ZareStanford University scientist Richard N. Zare writes, "We must be willing to speak out against the threat of making science just a matter of opinion." That is exactly what investigative journalist Seth Shulman does in Undermining Science, Suppression and Distortion […]

Our Energy Future

Last spring, when gasoline prices soared over $3 a gallon, Americans suddenly woke up to the fact that cheap energy was not their birthright. Almost overnight, SUVs became a glut in the market and alternative energy, from solar to wind, turned cool again. When prices dropped just before the November election (an oil company nod […]

Tiger Tracks: A review of Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger

Now available in paperback, Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger (Villard Books, $14.95) offers a cheap, entertaining way to travel to Australia and Tasmania and become intimately familiar with the local wildlife. Wombats, quolls, potoroos, little penguins, giant lobsters and pademelons all populate the pages of this eco-adventure with Brooklyn nature writers […]

Talking Computer Trash

A review of High-Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics and Human Health by Kellyn Betts“PBDEs are everywhere," said reporter Kellyn Betts at a recent Society of Environmental Journalists conference panel. "There are high levels in breast milk, blood and fat. Dust is the main route of exposure, and they’re coming out of products like computers […]

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