Tag: Bolivia

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  Why McDonald's Failed to Win Over Bolivians and Closed its Stores

  Bolivians, it seems, are happy enough without the 'Happy Meal'.

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  Why Did Mc Donald’s Shut Down in Bolivia? Film Explores the Country’s Fierce Local Food Culture (Interview)

  Fast Food off the Shelf is a documentary that explores why Bolivia was the only country in Latin America why Mc Donald's couldn't make it and had to shut down.

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  Bolivia Axes Plans to Build a Highway in the Amazon

  It was a plan met with controversy from the start: to build a 185-mile long highway through Bolivia's Isibore Secure Reserve, an ecological gem in the Amazon rainforest. For months, thousands of mostly indigenous protesters marched

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  Bolivia Celebrates First Annual "Day of the Pedestrian"

  It's been a good 4 million years since our earliest ancestors rose up on two feet and began walking bipedally, but it was just yesterday that its practitioners got a holiday of their very own. As a nod to the most eco-friendly

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  Bolivia Signs Food Security Law, Aims to Reduce Dependence on Foreign Companies

  Bolivian President Evo Morales signed a law this week aimed at increasing the nation's food security. Part of the plan is to set up state-owned companies to produce seeds and fertilizers. The government will also establish a state seed

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  Mother Earth To Be Given Rights Equal to Humans In New Bolivian Law

  A brief update on a story from a year ago: Bolivia is about to pass laws granting all of nature equal rights to human beings. The laws were first proposed

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  Water Woes Unsolved 11 Years After People's 'Triumph' Over Privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia

  When poor Bolivians rose up against the privatization of their water system, taking to the streets to demand -- successfully -- that it be returned to local control, their fight

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  Lions Freed From Circuses Bound For a Better Life

  After suffering for years under deplorable conditions as circus animals in Bolivian circuses, on Wednesday 25 lions will soon be starting a new life at a wildlife sanctuary in Colorado. Since Bolivia issued a ban on performing

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  The Real Picture Behind Walmart's "Love, Earth" Responsible Jewelry Line (Updated)

  Two years ago, Walmart launched Love, Earth, a jewelry line that would increase the transparency of the industry. Love, Earth would meet a new level of environmental and human rights standards—from mine to factory, it was

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  Is Convenient Political Realism Dooming Decent Climate Change Action?

  Bolivia has caught a lot of flak for consistently playing the fool during the COP16 climate negotiations (and during COP15 before that), speaking uncomfortable truths to those holding more power in the

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  Bolivia To Take Dispute Over Climate Negotiations To International Court

  In the early hours before an agreement was made in Cancun toward a global deal to combat climate change, one country, Bolivia, repeatedly stood up to voice its opposition to the process. The COP's president, Patricia Espinosa of

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  Amazing Land Art by Andrew Rogers (Slideshow)

  From high plains to deep gorges, deserts to rural fields, sculptor Andrew Rogers uses rock walls to outline the forms of symbols important to cultures around the world. Over the

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  Bolivia to Have a Mother Nature Ministry, Held Accountable For Enforcing Cochabamba Declaration

  Take this as a sign of how wide a gap exists when it comes to the international discussion of climate change: While the US Congress runs away from any notion of calling acting on climate

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  Bolivia's President: "Capitalism Dies, or Earth Dies"

  Climate Change Conference Kicks Off in Bolivia For anyone who thought the proceedings of COP-15 last December were a bit sleepy, the World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth may be better suited to your tastes. The meeting,

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  Lawyer Turned Architect Builds Recycled Homes for People in Need, Will Travel to Haiti

  We've seen houses from recycled PET bottles and even massive homes with glass bottles, though they are usually just a rare experiment by their owners. Not in this case: Bolivian lawyer turned architect Ingrid Vaca Diez helps people

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  Living With The Side Effects Of Lithium-ion Batteries

  There is so much excitement and so little risk management awareness shown for the prospects of a future driven by lithium battery-powered vehicles. It makes

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  Bolivia Enters the Cola War With New "Coca-Colla"

  Bolivian President Morales is the first to openly chew coca leaves in the UN. Photo via MercoPress Bolivia has a standing army of around 55,500 soldier. Coca-Cola has a workforce of 71,000 worldwide. Being outnumbered, however, is not discouraging the

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  See You in Cochabamba! Evo Morales Plans Bolivian Alternative Climate Summit for April

  Not wasting any time, Bolvian president Evo Morales has announced that his nation will be hosting an alternative climate summit in the city of Cochabamba on April 20-22, the New York Times reports. Morales is calling on activists,