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The impacts of all the paving that is done for new roads and parking lots must be considerable
In the U.S. alone, pavement covers some 60,000 square miles, or about two percent of the nation
s total surface area. One out of every 10 acres of arable land is paved over.
More Bad News for Bears
The international non-profit World Conservation Union/IUCN added Asia’s sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), to its Red List of the planet’s most endangered species. Researchers estimate that only about 10,000 individual sun bears, the smallest of the world’s eight bear species, remain across the its Southeast Asian range from India to Indonesia.
Gore Joins Top Shelf Venture Capital Firm
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the Silicon Valley venture capital firm famous for bankrolling such high-tech success stories as Sun Microsystems, Compaq Computer and Google, trotted out Al Gore as its newest partner.
COMMENTARY: Have Yourself a Lead-Free Little Christmas…
There is a Grinch out there, trying to steal Christmas, and he lives in the People’s Republic of China. While Dr. Seuss" Grinch stole all the toys, this new Grinch has merely contaminated them. Though China isn’t diabolically plotting to rip out the heart of American culture, its unfettered capitalism has turned our marketplace into something akin to the lawless Wild West.
COMMENTARY: Have Yourself a Lead-Free Little Christmas…
There is a Grinch out there, trying to steal Christmas, and he lives in the People’s Republic of China. While Dr. Seuss" Grinch stole all the toys, this new Grinch has merely contaminated them. Though China isn’t diabolically plotting to rip out the heart of American culture, its unfettered capitalism has turned our marketplace into something akin to the lawless Wild West.
Semana de 25/11/07
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Me han alarmado las noticias recientes sobre sustancias peligrosas enjuguetes infantiles hechos en China, aunque dudo que tales preocupaciones esténlimitadas a los productos chinos. ¿Cuáles son los temas importantes asociadoscon los productos químicos en los juguetes del niño?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuáles son las mejores fuentes deproductos de consumo respetuosos del medio ambiente? No quiero tener queconducir al fin del mundo para encontrar productos de lavado ecológicos, yotros ítems de limpieza, o hallar alfombras, artículos de cama, y otras necesidades que no traeránproductos químicos a mi hogar.
Where does all the medical waste from labs, doctor’s offices and hospitals go?
Medical wastes have traditionally been disposed of by the not-so-green-friendly method of incineration. Today a wide assortment of other processes, including steam sterilization, chemical disinfection and irradiation, are in use.
I have been alarmed at recent news about dangerous substances in kids
Recent concerns surrounding toxic chemicals in children’s toys have focused on “phthalates” (pronounced THA-lates), a group of chemical compounds typically added to plastics to increase their softness and flexibility
Semana de 18/11/07
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Todos hemos vistola generación actual de coches híbridos, pero qué vehículos tienen losfabricantes de coches en el futuro cercano que son incluso más verdes?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Recientemente tuveun argumento con un amigo que dice que si contaminamos y talamos los bosques,no importa porque la tierra se las arreglará de todos modos. ¿Cómo se deberíaresponder a tal punto de vista?