An ongoing drought has threatened groundwater supplies across India, and many villagers in rural areas are blaming Coca-Cola for aggravating the problem. Coke operates 52 water-intensive bottling plants in India. In the southern Indian village of Plachimada in Kerala
There are many examples of climate change’s real and present impact. For one, the 20 hottest years since record keeping began in the 1880s have all occurred since 1983, and until this year 2005 was the hottest year ever.
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> El término "sostenible" parece ser la nueva palabra de moda entre los ambientalistas. ¿Qué significa cuando se aplica a cosas como el transporte o la agricultura?</B>
Querido DiálogoEcológico: En una baño público, ¿qué es mejor del punto de vista ecológico y de salud para secarse las manos: una toallita de papel o un secador de manos eléctrico?
My heart began beating faster as a large, black shape swam toward my flimsy kayak, moving effortlessly in and out of the deep blue water…
A federal judge last week temporarily halted construction on a $320 million irrigation project by the Army Corps of Engineers in a region of Arkansas where birders recently reported sightings of the ivory-billed woodpecker long thought to be extinct. Responding to a lawsuit filed by concerned environmental groups, U.S. District Judge William Wilson ruled that credible accounts of the bird’s presence in Arkansas’ Big Woods Preserve in 2004 called into question the environmental impact assessments used to greenlight the irrigation project.
In the latest bad news related to human-induced climate change, scientists last week reported bottom fish and crabs washing up dead on Oregon beaches are the latest victims of global warming, which is reportedly causing oxygen-deprived "dead zones" along a 70-mile stretch of Oregon’s Pacific coast.
Most experts would agree that wall-mounted electric hand dryers are preferable to paper towels from an environmental standpoint. Though they do use energy, they shut off automatically and therefore don’t waste energy—and they eliminate the need for paper while also keeping paper out of the waste stream.
“Sustainable,” quite simply, is the positive result of conducting economic, social or environmental activities in such a way that current needs are met without compromising the well-being of future generations. A sustainable activity also does not despoil the here and now, in part because of how it may affect the future.
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Conozco los autos híbridos disponibles ahora por todos lados, pero, qué pasó con los autos estrictamente eléctricos que se veían hace 10 años?</B>
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Existen compañías de mercadeo múltiple estilo Amway que se ocupen de productos ecológicos?</B>
In a surprise to many environmentalists, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a proposed bilateral treaty between the U.S. and Russia to protect dwindling populations of polar bears in the far north. The treaty, first conceived in 2000, sets quotas on polar bear hunting by native peoples and calls for the establishment of an international commission to suggest ways to protect habitat for the massive mammals.
