The greater Reno-Tahoe area may soon be better known as a hub for renewable energy innovation. Nevada’s unprecedented, all-encompassing approach to "green" energy issues and Senator Harry Reid’s leadership set an example for other states to unleash their own clean energy potentials.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cómo es eso que botar las arenas higiénicas en el inodoro haafectado negativamente las nutrias del mar? ¿Cuál es la manera responsable dedeshacerse del desecho de gatos?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cómopodemos conseguir que las cafeterias escolares ofrezcan alimentos más sano ymás ecológicamente puros a nuestros niños? No tengo tiempo de empaquetar unalmuerzo sano todos los días.
Two editors from website The Daily Green dissect Leonardo DiCaprio’s epic environmental documentary, The 11th Hour. One finds it enlightening, though perhaps a bit dire following the cautionary tale of An Inconvenient Truth. The other decides DiCaprio’s film is geared too much toward ADD-viewers, like pretty much everything produced in Hollywood.
Two editors from website The Daily Green dissect Leonardo DiCaprio’s epic environmental documentary, The 11th Hour. One finds it enlightening, though perhaps a bit dire following the cautionary tale of An Inconvenient Truth. The other decides DiCaprio’s film is geared too much toward ADD-viewers, like pretty much everything produced in Hollywood.
A new report published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that exposure of developing human fetuses to such chemical compounds as PFOS and PFOA, often used in non-stick cookware, may reduce birth weight and size.
The UK-based nonprofit BirdLife International has launched an ambitious new campaign, dubbed the Species Champions Initiative, to save 189 critically endangered bird species around the world from extinction over the next five years
The Greens are not just the boring legumes that kids love to hate at meal time. The Greens are animated characters that represent the emerging class of environmentally conscious households.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: He leido que los coches híbridos son en realidad menos "ecológicos" que incluso los Hummers, porque tienen dos motores y baterías que hacen mucho daño al ambiente. ¿Es verdad lo que se dice?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué incentivos en materia de impuestos existen para estimular el uso de productos ecológicos—tanto para individuos como negocios?
Environmentalists are praising an announcement by the federal government last week to spend $848 million to bolster efforts in five major cities to cut traffic congestion and improve overall urban transportation performance.
A study recently released by the World Bank’s Global Environment Facility points out the hypocrisy in the Kyoto Protocol whereby countries that have cut their forests and are now engaging in reforestation efforts are rewarded with so-called "carbon credits" for their efforts, while those that have worked to preserve intact forests receive no such benefit.
