Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Son verdad las rumores que rellenar y reutilizar algunos tipos de botellas plásticas pueden causar problemas de salud?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Es verdad que el calentamiento del planeta puede exacerbar las alergias?
A recently developed project called Catalog Choice intends to put a cap on the amount of junk in our mailboxes. Just in time for the holidays!
Computer maker IBM has found a way to save money, reduce waste, and contribute to the development of the solar power industry with just one smart innovation—recycling defective semiconductor chips and sending the recovered refined silicon to manufacturers of photovoltaic solar cells.
While it’s not possible for parents to completely tune out the directives to buy, buy, buy, they can make their purchases from companies that share their values. We’ve discovered several worthy sites online.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Por favor ayúdenos a decidir de una vez por todas si mis gatos deberían permanecer puertas adentro o salir. Mi vecindario es relativamente seguro para los gatos, en lo que respecta al tráfico de coches, y pienso que es más natural que ellos deberían estar afuera y no siempre adentro. Es cierto que ellos matan animalitos silvestres, incluyendo pájaros, pero no están tomando el lugar de los depredadores naturales que hacían eso en otros tiempos?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: El hospital en que trabajo no recicla en absoluto, ni botellas de plástico, latas de bebidas, o bandejas de servicio de alimento. ¿Me preguntaba por lo tanto cómo conseguir que tales establecimientos puedan empezar algún tipo de programa de reciclaje?
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff last week used his Congressionally granted waiver power to overturn the suspension of construction on seven miles of fence along the American-Mexican border in Arizona.
Environmentalists are overjoyed at news that the House Natural Resources Committee last week approved legislation rewriting the antiquated General Mining Law of 1872. That legislation, originally signed by President Ulysses S. Grant, was designed to promote the development and settlement of publicly owned lands on the American frontier.
I wouldn’t exactly call myself selfless, or "eco-friendly" for that matter. Apart from recycling my old salsa jars and scrunched Diet Coke cans, I really can’t be bothered with the latest "eco-mandates" or what "trading on carbon offsets" is supposed to mean. It all sounds like white noise to me. I tune it out—definitely somebody else’s problem.
At Theo Chocolate in Seattle, visitors can experience fair trade cocoa roasting and confection-making first hand.
The latest sportswear features jackets and shirts made from soybeans, coconut husks and recycled soda bottles, and shoes made of recycled tires with vegetable waste laces.
