Taking Precaution
Schools are being built on toxic sites. What can we do to prevent it?
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By the Numbers: Sharks
100 Million. That’s the staggering number of sharks purportedly killed each year, according to savingsharks.com, sharkwater.com, the nonprofit WildAid and Anderson Cooper’s 360° blog. The number has become a rallying point for ocean advocates, but is it true? Not quite. Without a doubt, sharks are in serious trouble. A 2006 research paper published in the […]
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GoodGuide
GoodGuide, Inc. The GoodGuide app lets you scan products–from food to cleaners–before buying, to discover how they rate on health, environmental and social commitment scales. The GoodGuide iPhone app is the app you need when navigating store aisles. Once downloaded, you can use your iPhone or iPod Touch’s camera to scan the barcodes of more […]
The Energy Poor
An organization called The Charcoal Project is addressing a concern that’s been largely overlooked: the more than two billion people around the world who depend on wood, charcoal, dung or agricultural residues as primary fuel sources.
More Sustainable Sushi
There‘s one way to stop further decimating remaining populations of bluefin tuna: stop eating them.
Semana del 9/1/11
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué se está haciendo para actualizar y reformar la Ley de Control de Sustancias Tóxicas de 1976, que comprendo está considerablemente caduca y permite realmente el uso de miles de sustancias químicas que nunca han sido probados adecuadamente por su seguridad?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Vi un anuncio de televisión para un tipo de papel higiénico que no tenía ningún núcleo de cartón para ahorrar papel. Entiendo que los grupos ecologistas concluyeron recientemente un convenio con Kimberly-Clark para proteger los bosques orientales de EEUU y parar el talaje por, entre otras cosas, papel de lavabo. ¿Me pueden decir si se está haciendo un esfuerzo similar para proteger los bosques boreales de Canadá, también utilizados desde hace tiempo para fabricar papel de sanitario?
Little Village’s Teen Activists
Chicago teens discuss the ways they’ve challenged school pollution.
The Intersection of Wildlife and Health
The Wildlife Trust, founded in 1971, changed its name to EcoHealth Alliance last fall. With the switch came new opportunities to partner with scientific groups in other disciplines…
The Climate Change Shell Game
The multibillion-dollar climate change offset market is already providing huge sums to China and boosting the manufacture of a harmful refrigerant in the process.