Tag: Latin America - Page 3
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Chevron: There's Two Sides of Every Story, Right?
When 60 Minutes profiled Ecuadoreans who accuse Texaco, a company acquired by Chevron in 2001, of poisoning the rain forest, the world listened. So what did Chevron do, knowing that the story was coming? It hired its own journalist and made its own
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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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Mexico City to Require Students to Take School Bus To Reduce Traffic and Pollution
Mexico City's minister of the environment, Martha Delgado, announced Friday that in August a pilot project requiring students to take school buses instead of private vehicles to school at 10 private schools would commence.
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Mexico Launches $550 Million Wind Farm in Oaxaca
It was a big week for renewable energy in Mexico. Yesterday we reported that Wal-Mart Mexico has just installed a 174 KW solar array on the roof of one of its stores in the northern city of Aguascalientes. Thursday also brought the launch of one of the
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Ecuador Extends Rights To Ecosystems
Kate Wilson via The New York Times A few months after Lloyd reported on the Swiss government's conclusion that plants have rights the Ecuadorian population went one step further and voted to change their constitution to proclaim that nature has "the
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Mexico's Driving Restriction Law Under Fire
Some time back, we reported that Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard had decided to extend the controversial "Hoy No Circula" (Today Don't Drive) plan, a program where drivers are prohibited from using their vehicles one weekday a week based on their
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Mexico To Enforce Trash Separation
Since 2004, the Mexico City government has been trying to convince residents to separate their trash for recycling and composting purposes. An ambitious solid waste law requires residents and businesses to separate organic waste from inorganic trash.
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Mexican Volcanic Glaciers Disappearing Due to Climate Change
Photo credit: Peakware
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Cuba Relies on Urban Gardens to Feed Hungry Populace
Planet Ark/Reuters has a nice piece out of Havana about how urban gardens are filling a key void in food production after three hurricanes wiped out 30 percent of the country's farm crops. In Cuba, urban gardens have proliferated in vacant lots,
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Cocaine Blues: Coke-Heads Aiding Rainforest Destruction
Image Credit: The Sun Anti-Drug Campaigners Target 'Ethical' Consumers Type "cocaine" into the search bar on TreeHugger and you won't come up with much. That's because cocaine use is not a very TreeHugger-like activity, right? (If you need
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Bolivia's Lithium Reserves Could Power Electric Car Boom
The auto industry is beginning to look to lithium batteries to power new models of hybrid cars. The new demand for lithium could be a boon for Bolivia, the poorest country in South America, which holds half of the world's lithium reserves, according to
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Mexico City Wins Health Award For Promoting Bicycling
Biking in Mexico City? No, it's not an extreme sport for thrill-seekers. It's a weekend pastime for families thanks to a program called Muevete en Bici program, or Get on Your Bicycle. Mayor Marcelo Ebrard's initiative, launched one year ago, closes
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Lima's Water Source Threatened by Mine Tailings
Gold mine tailings + a water source for 10 million people = Bad News. Reuters has a story on the wires today about the Peruvian government's fears that with the looming rainy season, 744,000 metric tonnes of toxic tailings from a processing plant could
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More New Cars Than Babies This Year in Mexico City
For every birth in Mexico City, two new cars enter the city's vehicle fleet each year, according to the Center for Sustainable Transport, or CTS in its Spanish acronym. The non-profit think tank compared the city's birth records to vehicle sales and
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Mexico Moves Ahead with Biodiesel Production
Mexico, with its serious air pollution, slow progress towards minimizing the sulfur content in its diesel fuel, and burgeoning fleet of cars, is in dire need of some clean fuels. Mexican President Felipe Calderon recently
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Guatemala: New Hub for Piloting Green Energy Technologies?
We were interested to read that Guatemala is the test site for three of the 10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World in the online edition of DISCOVER magazine.
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Ecological Daydreams: Our Veggie Oil powered caravan to Costa Rica
Our crew at the Huehuecoyotl Ecovillage, Tepoztlan, Mexico On November 10, 2003 twenty-six of us aboard two school buses and a pickup truck all running on recycled vegetable oil departed Berkeley, California on a journey through Mexico and Central
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Mexican Food Company Switching to Biodegradable Packaging
Grupo Bimbo, Mexico's largest producer of baked goods, announced this week it will be replacing its plastic packaging with a new biodegradable plastic in all main supermarkets and retail outlets in Mexico City.
