Whether or not to allow the hunting of bison (also known as buffalo) is a hot debate indeed. For starters, Native Americans sustainably hunted bison for thousands of years, but the onslaught of gun-toting European commercial hunters reduced the species to just 30 remaining
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Qué es la campaña "No Muy Bonito" en lo que respecta a cosméticos?</B>
<B><U>Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Qué es lo que está causando la gripe aviaria? ¿Y podría realmente matar millones de personas?</B>
These days, no matter where you live, you can recycle a wide range of discards—aseptic juice packages, printer cartridges, ordinary batteries, iPods, PDAs, and even cell phones.
Everyone’s wondering what is causing the bird flu going around the world and how we can stop it in its tracks.
The fight over America’s three remaining horse slaughterhouses has developed into back-and-forth, high-stakes brinksmanship, featuring name calling, Congressional action, outraged city halls and last-minute judicial rulings. Although public opinion and the organized might of the animal welfare and animal rights communities oppose them, the plants—two in Texas, one in Illinois—were still open for business at presstime.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK–When was the last time you were low on gas on the way to your friend’s house and thought, "No problem; I’ll just plug in when I get there"? Well, some of the cars showcased May 10 to 14 at the 18th annual Tour de Sol were electric vehicles (EVs) that could power-up using ordinary wall outlets–one of many exciting alternatives to standard internal-combustion featured at the upstate New York event.
Publishing heavyweight Random House announced last week that it intends to increase the proportion of recycled paper in the majority of its books to at least 30 percent by 2010. Currently less than three percent of the paper used by the company is recycled. Company officials said that the change would cost several million dollars but would lead to the preservation of more than half a million trees a year.
After years of bickering and delays, local officials in Syracuse, New York have finally given the green light to the world’s first green megamall. Developers have promised that the proposed multi-billion dollar entertainment and shopping complex, dubbed DestiNY USA, would run entirely on wind turbines, solar panels, fuel cells and biofuels while serving as a model for clean living and green shopping. The new mall would be the largest green real estate development in the world to date.
What is the “Not Too Pretty” campaign pertaining to the use of cosmetics?
Horse slaughter plants in Texas and Illinois killed 88,000 horses last year. The future for this lucrative export business remains uncertain, however, as a high-stakes battle over the future of the three remaining plants plays out in courtrooms and the Congress.
