<U><B>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Cómo se define un "pantano" y cómo se protegen éstos en los E.U.A. y Canadá de la destrucción por el desarrollo urbano y otras amenazas?</B>
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Qué impactos ecológicos puede esperar nuestra comunidad esperar si Wal-Mart abre una tienda en las cercanías?</B>
Corporations are discovering that solar installations can be more than a sunny public relations exercise—they’re actually good business. That was certainly the case at the unveiling this September of a huge solar photovoltaic (PV) system on the rooftop of the Whole Foods Distribution Center in Cheshire, Connecticut. The 121-kilowatt system is capable of providing 10 percent of the facility’s total energy needs.
Climate change is becoming a major concern among leading American financial institutions and corporations, and they are starting to develop strategic responses, according to a report issued this week by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a coalition of global investors with more than $31.5 trillion in assets.
Search engine goliath Google Inc. announced last week that it is adding environmental content to its free geographic mapping and satellite photo tool Google Earth. The company has already begun integrating overlays on Google Earth utilizing content and data from the United Nations Environment Program, the National Park Service, Discovery Networks, National Geographic and the Jane Goodall Institute, among others.
With more than 6,000 stores spread out across the globe—Wal-Mart is the world’s biggest retailer, hands down, and also a magnet for criticism for its low wages, inadequate health coverage and effect on struggling downtowns
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines wetlands as “lands where saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface.
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> Ahora que comienza el año escolar, ¿cómo podría empacar los almuerzos de los niños para no desperdiciar materiales?</B>
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Es que existe una conexión entre el mal de las vacas locas y la enfermedad de Alzheimer?</B>
MTV launches A Major New Campaign to Organize Campuses to Fight Climate Change…
After years of budget cuts and neglect at national parks, environmentalists are optimistic that the White House decision to replace outgoing National Park Service Director Fran Mainella with career NPS officer Mary Bomar is a step in the right direction. Bomar is credited with managing several major revitalization projects that led to surges in park attendance in previous posts.
For the first time in history, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to take up a case on global warming. This latest version of the lawsuit (<I>Massachusetts v. EPA</I>) was filed by a coalition of states, cities and environmental groups in an effort to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set mandatory limits for greenhouse gases emitted from automobiles.
