Semana del 6/6/10
Querido DiálogoEcológico: EEUU fue azotado por varias tormentas mayores este invierno pasado. Los informes sobre el tiempo local nunca mencionaron esta anomalía. ¿Pero es un signo del calentamiento climático?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: He estado oyendo mucho acerca de la popularidad de la leche vendida en bolsas (en comparación con cartones de plástico o cartón) en India, Europa y Canadá. ¿Cuáles son las ventajas ambientales para la leche en bolsas, y creen Uds. que se popularizará en EEUU? ¿Y qué otras opciones existen ahí para bebedores de leche que tratan de ser "verdes"?
I’ve been hearing about the popularity of milk sold in bags
Plastic milk bags are popular in many parts of Europe, Latin America and India and are catching on in Canada, South Africa and China. They use 75 percent less plastic than similar capacity plastic jugs, are made of easily recycled high-density polyethylene
Consuming Chemicals
What do breast milk, food cans, microwave popcorn, and fast-food French fry boxes have in common with meat, fish and dairy products? They’re all avenues of human ingestion of potentially harmful chemicals associated with everyday plastics.
Dispersant Worries
At a press conference last Monday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that the dispersant that BP is using on the oil spill off of the Gulf Coast, called Corexit, is being used in unprecedented ways and unprecedented quantities—over 840,000 gallons and counting.
How Blue Are You?
June 8 is World Oceans Day—a day meant to celebrate the oceans of the world and to recognize our connection to them.
The U.S. got socked with several major storms this past winter
Weather patterns and trends are notoriously unpredictable, varying due to a great many different inputs. While it’s true that snowier, stormier winters could be the result of global warming, many meteorologists believe that El Nino—a climate pattern involving
Semana del 30/5/10
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué se está haciendo para limpiar las operaciones industriales de crianza de cerdos en lugares como Iowa y Carolina del Norte y en otras partes donde la industria es bastante grande? He oído historias horribles acerca de "lagunas" artificiales de desecho animal que se derraman y contaminan los ríos y el agua subterránea, y otras cosas por el estilo.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Pueden usarse los aviones con combustibles más limpios o a base de electricidad? ¿Se ve cambios en el negocio de las aerolíneas para encontrar combustibles más limpios?
Can airplanes be run on cleaner fuels or be electric powered?
Given air travel’s huge contribution to our collective carbon footprint—flying accounts for about three percent of carbon emissions worldwide by some estimates—and the fact that basic passenger and cargo jet designs haven’t changed significantly in decades, the world is certainly ready for greener forms of flying.
Cold Lessons
As I type this, having just returned from a two-week photography trip to the Arctic, my fingertips tingle, possibly from the lingering cold, or possibly from the trepidation that the tragedy of the Gulf oil spill will someday repeat itself in America’s Arctic Ocean.
Bad News BPA
More bad news is emerging about the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), found in canned food linings and much plastic food and beverage packaging.