A Watershed Year for Green Homes
There’s no doubt 2006 has been a great year for green building—at least in terms of PR.
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Vancouver’s Middle-class Protest
On Easter Monday of 2006, 20 people grabbed their camping gear and left the comfort of their homes to erect a tent city at Eagleridge Bluffs, a scenic area in West Vancouver, British Columbia. They were protesting the state government’s plan to build a four-lane highway through the Bluffs that would destroy rare and sensitive ecosystems and would decimate portions of a popular hiking trail.
Semana del 18/02/2007
<U>Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Son los recientes ciclones y sequías en Australia y otroas partes más evidencia del calentamiento global?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Productos lácteos como el yogurt siempre parecen venir en envases de baja reciclabilidad (con etiqueta #5, que nuestra municipalidad no acepta). ¿Por qué no se hacen estos contenedores más reciclables? ¿Es que no existe otro tipo de envase que sea más ecológico para este uso?
Greenpeace Steps Up Campaign to Save Boreal Forest
Four Greenpeace activists locked themselves together in the Canadian headquarters of Kimberly-Clark last week, demanding that the U.S.-based paper company stop using virgin pulp from Canada’s boreal forests in its popular products.
Enviros Look Beyond Kyoto to Bring U.S. Into Climate Fold
The troubled Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is set to expire in 2012. With American sentiment for action on global warming building rapidly, environmentalists are focusing on drafting a follow-up agreement on which even holdouts like the U.S. and Australia can agree.
COMMENTARY: Not Milk?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last December that the agency will likely approve the sale of cloned foods this year. The FDA’s action flies in the face of widespread scientific concern about the risks of food from clones, and ignores the animal cruelty and troubling ethical concerns that the cloning process brings. What’s worse, the FDA indicates that it will not require labeling on cloned food, so consumers will have no way to avoid these experimental foods.
Semana del 11/02/2007
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué significa que un edificio tenga "certificación LEED"? ¿Es que quiere decir que es un edificio "verde"?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué es una "isla de calor urbana"? Y ¿tiene algo que ver con el Calentamiento Global?
COMMENTARY: Religious Environmentalism:
The natural alliance between religious and secular environmentalists is happening in thousands of local contexts where secularists and people of faith work together to resist climate change, toxic waste disposal and destructive economic "development." Facing the same environmental crisis that their secular counterparts do, people of faith have been changing their basic attitudes towards nature and seeing the moral connections between our treatment of nature and our treatment of people.
UN: Illegal Logging Decimating SE Asia’s Orangutans
Illegal logging across parts of Southeast Asia, including in national parks, is decimating wildlife populations. The orangutan is at particular risk. According to a recent report by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), 98 percent of remaining forests on Sumatra and Borneo could be gone by 2022, with serious consequences for local people and wildlife.
Greenest Car of 2007 Powered by Natural Gas
The natural gas-powered Honda Civic topped the Greenest Vehicles of 2007 list released last week by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). Second and third spots went to Toyota’s hybrid Prius and Honda’s Civic Hybrid.