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Mexico On Par with Costa Rica in Conservation Investment
As we've noted before, the building boom along Mexico's coasts does not bode well for biosphere reserves and threatened species in this country of incredible biodiversity. But we were surprised to learn that Mexico now invests close to four dollars per
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Dutch Bank to Offer Carbon Credits to Brazilian Farmers
Last year, we wrote about how Dutch bank Rabobank was introducing a new "carbon credit card." Now the bank has another innovative scheme to help jump-start the carbon credit market. In a pilot program to launch next month, Rabobank will offer a carbon
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Pemex Must Do More, Says Editorial
In a recent editorial penned in one of Mexico's major dailies, Jorge Emilio González, the president of Mexico's Green Party, made the case for Petroleos Mexicanos's deficient commitment to the environment. The national oil monopoly, known as Pemex, saw
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Juan Valdez Goes Organic
Juan Valdez, the iconic Colombian coffee grower who is a brand for the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, has been recast as slimmer, more youthful and eco-conscious. Hoping to cash in on the booming market for specialty coffees,
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Mexico City Aims for Water Self-Sufficiency by 2020
The top environmental official in the Mexico City government, Martha Delgado Peralta, said recently the city was launching a new water sustainability policy to guarantee self-sufficiency and supply for future generations. The target is ambitious -- to
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Mexican Government Cites Ecological Dangers of Border Wall
The wall the U.S. government is building on the border with Mexico could cause floods, the disappearance of 11 animal species with the interruption of their migration routes, and the fragmentation of flora and fauna populations, according to a new study
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U.S. Military to Use Cooking Oil to Fuel Guantanamo Base
Following in these eco-savvy footsteps, the U.S.
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Circle Hooks Save Turtles in Latin America
According to WWF, nearly 250,000 endangered loggerhead,
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Flipping Kenya's Coastal Flotsam
What ever happened to that flip flop you lost while walking on a beach pounded by heavy waves? It might have ended up on the coast of Kenya, harming sea life and sullying pristine beaches. Fortunately, members of a handful of Kenyan coastal communities
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Garbage-Burning Oven Helps Clean Up and Power Kenyan Slum
The Christian Science Monitor has a piece out of Nairobi on a garbage-burning oven in the notorious slum of Kibera that aims to preserve the country's forests, which are swiftly being cleared to provide wood and charcoal for cooking, while finding a way
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Wonder Welders: Cool Recycled Metal Art by Tanzanians with Polio
That polio is still disabling people in this day and age is an unfortunate reality, but a group of victims in Tanzania has not let it stop them from becoming pioneering eco-artists. In 2004, they joined together to form a welding workshop in Dar es
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South Africa to Get First Green Development
Say what you will about the posh name -- Upper East Side-- but kudos to South African developer Swish Property Group for spearheading what will be South Africa's first green mixed-use development.
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Turtle-Oriented Eco-Tourism Springs Up in Central America
The Los Angeles Times recently had a rare piece on a Panamanian eco-activist committed to saving the sea turtles, whose numbers dwindled to 80 last year, from hundreds in the 1980s. Arcelio Fuentes raises sea turtles in a beach-side incubator that he
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Ugandans Give New Life to Plastic Bags
Now local and international NGOs are helping Ugandans in a
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Industrial Recycling in North America on the Rise, Says CEC
According to a new report from the Commission on Environmental Cooperation, over one-third of U.S. and Canadian toxic releases and transfers reported in 2004—more than 1 million tonnes—were recycled. Recycling has increased in recent years due
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Costa Rica Trades Conservation for Debt
The U.S. government and environmental groups have agreed to let Costa Rica off the hook on US$26 million in debt, but the country will have to invest the same quantity for tropical forest conservation over the next 16 years, according to an agreement
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Tanzanian NGO Boos GMOs on World Food Day
"There needs to
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Eco-tourism in Zanzibar
Zanziibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania known for its history as a key spice trading port, is still far off the beaten path of American tourists, but is increasingly on the radar of British, Italian and Spanish globetrotters. The tourism dollars
