Querido DiálogoEcológico:</U> ¿Podrían explicar ustedes el movimiento "Cero Desperdicio" en Europa, Australia y otras partes que trata de ir más allá del reciclaje para reducir el desperdicio? ¿Cómo lo podemos poner en práctica aquí en los Estados Unidos? — Neil Weiss, Methuen, Mass.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cómo es posible que pudiese haber algún día una "escasez de agua"? ¿No es el agua el elemento más abundante en la tierra?
At the beginning of the 21st century, a new phenomenon was added to popular American culture: the Starbucks juggle. This act involves a tall paper cup of coffee and possibly other items on the way to the morning’s destination. More advanced jugglers try to manage the coffee cup, a cell phone, purse and brief case as well. Most of us "Starbuckers" buy the java to go, for we are a people on the go. The Starbucks phenomenon, though it requires some juggling, fits into our on-the-go-fast-food-and-drink culture.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released some troubling findings last week from a four-year study on the condition of America’s streams. The agency concluded that 42 percent of the nation’s shallow or "wadeable" streams were in poor environmental condition. Another 25 percent were considered only fair, leaving just 28 percent of streams in good condition.
Customers told they would have to wait between two weeks and four months, depending on where they live, to get a gasoline-electric hybrid Honda Civic or Toyota Prius are frustrated that automakers can’t meet demand. Not that the automakers are happy about it either. Sales of both vehicles fell in April as Toyota and Honda could not keep up with surging demand accompanying skyrocketing gasoline prices.
Ocean water may cover more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, but thirsty humans rely on finite supplies of freshwater to stay alive. And with exploding human population growth, especially in poor countries, these finite supplies get quickly spoken for
In essence, “Zero Waste” is a design principle writ large, whereby products are conceived, produced, packaged, distributed and retired with their long-term environmental impacts in mind. According to the non-profit GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN),
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Es el nuevo "H3"Hummer de la General Motors menos hostil al ambiente que modelos anteriores, o se trata sencillamente de una máquina más pequeña?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Por qué se dice que los ciudadanos afroamericanos sufren desproporcionadamente entre la población norteamericana de polución y otros males de origen ambiental?
Most of us spend about 90 percent of our time indoors, so minimizing the use of harmful chemicals in our homes, offices and schools is important to keep the air we breathe healthy and the constructed surfaces we live on free of irritants and toxins.
Paul Stamets says we’re all descended from mushrooms, and if that’s true, he’s one spore who hasn’t fallen too far from his fungus of origin. That’s a compliment, and anyone who reads his colorful 2005 book Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Ten Speed Press) will probably agree. Like the sentient networks of mushroom mycelium he champions for environmental remediation, natural pesticides and improved immune response in people, Stamets is on a mission to help save the world through his research, writing, teaching and company Fungi Perfecti, LLC, a source for all things fungus.
African-Americans and other minorities bear a disproportionate amount of pollution and other environmental ills in the U.S. for a variety of reasons.
