Tag: Ecuador - Page 4
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The Strange, Sexy Dance of the Blue-Footed Boobies
Today, on the coast of the Galapagos Island Espanola, I saw two birds with blue feet puff themselves up, awkwardly cuddle, and then proceed to dance around with all the grace of teenagers at a junior high dance. I had never
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A Visual Orgasm on the Galapagos Islands
So I've been in the Galapagos for 5 days, and it seems like every dispatch I've written brims with doom and gloom—I've hit on the islands' huge water management issues, the problems with education, and an illegal ongoing sea
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Water, Water, Everywhere, nor Any a Drop to Drink
Please Use Only as Much Water as You Need. Conserve Water.
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Nature Inspires Art in San Diego
Watching the world around us and the changes big and small that occur all the time, sometimes you just have to do something to reflect what you are experiencing. It is this need to create that brings
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Where the Priests Teach Evolution—the State of Education in Darwin's Lab
US teachers in the Galapagos classroom. Photo by Pete Oxford The Galapagos Islands are undoubtedly one of the most unique ecological sites in the world—Darwin could've told you that. And he did. But the legacy he began in biological education has found
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An Organic Cash Crop in the Galapagos?
San Cristobal transforms from one of the most arid, barren-looking tropical islands you could imagine to a verdant tropical beauty in about half an hour. We're driving on the muddy roads through the Galapagos' capitol island en
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The Black Market Sea Lion Penis Harvest, and Other Marine Woes of the Galapagos
The Galapagos Islands first really became the Galapagos Islands for most of us sometime around 6 o'clock at night. About then, I was lying on the beach a foot or two away from a female sea lion who just stared in my direction,
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Anticipating Education in Modern Day Galapagos (Part Two)
Photo courtesy of Planet Ware 30 of the top teachers in the US are making a trek from the Florida Everglades to the Galapagos Islands in order to engage a series of global conservation issues in the Toyota International Teacher Program. I'm traveling
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Anticipating Education in Modern Day Galapagos (Part One)
Photo by Susan Cullumber 30 of the top teachers in the US are making a trek from the Florida Everglades to the Galapagos Islands in order to engage a series of global conservation issues in the Toyota International Teacher Program. I'm traveling
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Teaching by Example: The Road to Galapagos
Photo courtesy of Tui De Roy The Toyota International Teacher Program Heads to the Galapagos Islands Every year, the Toyota International Teacher Program sends a group of the United State's top secondary school teachers to a far-flung locale, where they
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First Mating in 36 Years For Island's Last Giant Tortoise
Image: "Lonesome George" - it's lonely to be the last (putneymark on Flickr) Ninety years old and considered one of the world's rarest organisms, the giant tortoise from the Galapagos Islands known as "Lonesome George" stunned conservationists when he
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The Best Chocolate in the World Now on the Shelves at Whole Foods
If you have been following the journey of the Kallari organic chocolate cooperative since I first wrote about them in January 2006 you will be as delighted as we are to hear that Kallari chocolate bars are now available to buy from Whole Foods in the
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7 Hidden Eco-gems: Under-the-Radar Cities Worth a Visit
Scenes from Malmö, Sweden -- a hidden green city gem -- Björn Söderqvist @ flickr. Portland, San Francisco, and New York. These three cities consistently rise to the top of U.S. and even global lists of great green cities. And while these cities,
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A Winter Biking Guide, Ecuador's Nature Rights and Volvo's Hybrid Bus
New Consumer offers a guide on how to stay warm, safe and dry for winter biking.
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World Bank and Andean Countries Will Spend $32 Million To Study Glacial Retreat and Create Adaptation Plan
The Andean Community, an organization that gathers Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to treat common interests, announced recently a project to help three of
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Yachana Lodge: Training Amazon Youth in Eco-tourism
One of the more impressive winners of The Geotourism Challenge, a recent competition sponsored by Ashoka's Changemakers and National Geographic, was Yachana Foundation and Lodge, an education and sustainable development project for poor youth from the
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2008 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Pablo Fajardo Mendoza and Luis Yanza on their Fight Against Oil Giants
It’s difficult to imagine the courage it takes to go against a huge corporation. Worse, an oil giant like Chevron. But Pablo Fajardo Mendoza and Luis Yanza are not afraid: They are convinced Ecuador and its people deserve a clean Amazon, and their
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The TH Interview: John Nevado, President of Nevado Roses Ecuador
It's true, Gertrude—"A rose is a rose is a rose"—but are all roses created equal? This is the question I posed to John Nevado, president of Nevado Roses, a Fair Trade and ecologically sensitive rose farm situated in Ecuador.
