Tag: Central America

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  What Our Sugar & Ethanol Habits Are Doing to Central American Workers

  Kidney failure is killing sugarcane workers in Central America who supply sugar for both our sweet tooth and demand for ethanol.

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  Vegetarian Spider Hides From Ants So It Can Eat Leaves (Video)

  Tiny jumping spiders are already cute - er, well, at least to some people - but one feature putting the Bagheera kiplingi (besides that awesome name) is its diet - it's vegetarian. It actually spends much of its life hiding

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  12 Hip Green Hostels Around the Globe

  Fancy spending some time on an organic farm, practicing yoga and taking long walks through the hills? Or would you rather stay in an art-filled old downtown warehouse, and

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  Want to Live a Long, Happy, Sustainable Life? Consider Central America

  What if, instead of comparing different countries on the basis of things like GDP, we measured the health,

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  GreenWood: Forestry Management Meets Skilled Craft to Create Sustainable Livelihoods

  During my time in Ecuador in 2007, apart from reporting on Kallari chocolate, and interviewing Daryl Hannah and David de Rothschild, I also reported on EcoMadera, a company working hard to promote responsible forestry

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  Palm Sunday & Global Demand for Xaté Threatens Belize's forests

  This past Palm Sunday, Fauna and Flora International highlighted the overexploitation of palms in Central America in an attempt to raise awareness of the impact that global demand for palm leaves is having on some of the world’s most pristine

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  6 International Resorts Dishing Pampered Eco Luxury

  Luxury by its very definition means indulgence--while eco-consciousness, such as that employed by Scandic in its moderately-priced hotel chain, is more likely to mean slashing consumption.

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  The TH Interview: 2008 Brower Youth Awards (Part One)

  David R. Brower was a powerhouse of the American environmental movement—in fact, it’s pretty safe to say that without David Brower, the green movement wouldn’t be what it is today. Certainly not a man who slept late, Brower founded the Sierra Club

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  The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of The Nature Conservancy (Part Two)

  It's not just any old organization that can set a goal like this: protect 10% of every ecosystem type on Earth by 2015, effectively doubling the headway of the conservation movement over the last century. But The Nature Conservancy can. Acting

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  The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of The Nature Conservancy (Part One)

  Immersed in the nifty slickness of "environmentalism 2.0" it's sometimes easy to forget about the patient progress of the groups like The Nature Conservancy. At 56-years old, The Nature Conservancy is a granddaddy eco-org, and was doing its leafy

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  Carbon Neutral Vacations in Costa Rica

  The guilt-free, eco-friendly tropical vacation has finally arrived. NatureVacations, a travel agency that operates in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama, hopes to vanquish all of your treehuggerly shame about flying to Costa Rica to soak up some rays by

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  Rainforest Alliance Finds Sustainably Certified Forests Have Fewer Wildfires

  We already knew that certifying forestry projects under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification standards was a good idea. Now a new study by the Rainforest Alliance in Guatemala tells us that forest concessions managed in compliance with

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  Costa Rica Plants 5 Million Trees to Combat Climate Change

  Just days ago, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias planted the 5 millionth tree of the year near his office in the

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  Tropics Migrating Northward, Hastening Spread of Tropical Diseases

  A trend that has already helped accelerate the spread of certain infectious diseases - the northward movement of tropical regions - could become much worse as global warming continues to intensify. In a recently published article in the journal Nature

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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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  Forests Buffer Hurricanes' Wrath

  Hooray for trees: Two fierce storms that recently slammed ashore on the Caribbean coast of Mexico and Central America have demonstrated how important forests and mangrove swamps are in dampening the effect of hurricanes—and by

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  Just Cashews: They're Nuts to Fight For Justice

  We apologize for the bad pun in the title, sometimes it's just hard to resist. Fair trade is a familiar concept to our readers. Aside from writing about well-known fair trade commodities like chocolate and coffee, we've also seen posts on everything

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  Providing a Means of Escape for Wildlife

  It's a commonly accepted fact in evolutionary biology that more genetically diverse populations will have a better chance of adapting to and thriving under varying climate regimes than will inbred, genetically poor ones. With global warming likely to