Tag: Latin America - Page 6
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Gueto Studio's Canoe Project: Design with Recovered Petroleum Byproducts
Brazilian eco-design studio Gueto, previously featured by us here, has launched its new line of products. These are result of an association with Brazil's biggest petrol company (Petrobras) and Sebrae, an agency that supports entrepreneurship
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EcoBuilding 2008 to Take Place in Sao Paulo Next May
From May 23 to 25, 2008, Brazil's biggest city is holding the International Meeting for Architecture and Technologies for Sustainable Construction.
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Mexican Students Design Electric Cab Prototype
Looks like students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are crazy about green transportation. Just a few weeks ago, we informed you about a group that had designed a hybrid car prototype, and now another team of students has come up
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Blur's Alex James Acts as Eco and Anti Drug Star in Colombia
He took on organic agriculture and cheese production in his own farm (which he
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Specialists Call for Political Action on Conservation in Latin America
With the goal of analyzing the state of green spaces in the region, the II Latin American Congress on National Parks and Other Protected areas is taking place in Bariloche, a popular touristic city about 1600 kilometers south from Buenos Aires. Some of
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Tracking Down Hurricanes' Fingerprints in Trees and Stone
Stalagmites and trees probably aren't the first places you'd think to look for records of past hurricanes. But that's exactly what Amy Frappier, a geochemist at Boston College, and her colleagues have been doing for the past few years — investigating
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Latin American Banana Farmers Sue Over Pesticides
At least 5,000 agricultural workers from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama have filed five lawsuits in the United States. The farmers claim that exposure in the 1970s to dibromochlorpropane (DBCP), a
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IPCC on Latin America: Land Drought and Coastlines Floodings are on the Menu
Agriculture yields projected to go down, threatening food security in the region.
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Travel to Bolivia and Help Indigenous Communities
Looking for a holiday destination with some meaning? Well, Bolivian Government has presented a National Tourism Plan oriented to create jobs and generate revenues to eradicate the poverty in the country's indigenous communities -currently 70% of
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Natura's New Make Up Line: Diversa
We’ve already told you about Natura, a Brazilian beauty products company whose products are developed with natural resources extracted in a sustainable way and via fair trade; that also uses recycled materials in its packages and recipients. Well, this
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Mu + El Ceibo: Survival Trash Collection Meets Design
Through a foundation they were contacted
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Recycled Tyres Bags and Furniture by Mecha
Boy we've looked for this woman everywhere! We first checked her work in an Mtv show, but her website was down and we couldn't find any link to her. A few weeks later, magically one of her friends named her in his personal blog and voilá!. Mexican
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Mexican Government Eco Tips
At the Mexican Environmental and Natural Resources Office website, which has lots of information about events and an educational section with several documents on waste, contamination and recycling, we found this very friendly flyer: "100 tips to take
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Brazilian Natura's Ekos Products
Ekos cosmetics line of products by Natura is made with resources of the rich Brazilian biodiversity extracted in a sustainable form and through Fair Trade. They are biodegradable and their packages contain recycled glass and paper. Better yet, they
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Eco Travel: Northern Argentina's Solar Towns
Argentina has become a very popular tourism destination since the devaluation of peso (three to one dollar), especially the northern and southern limits, north by its proximity with places like Bolivia and Brazil and south by Patagonia's mountains,
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Jeansmakers' Jeans Refurbishing
Argentinean firm Jeansmakers produces unique jeans out of your old ones. The service is in the same line as Junky Styling's, but the difference is that Teresa Castagnino, owner of the firm, is a designer with great trajectory in the jeans area, having
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Recpol Collection of Used Plastic Silo Bags
Thanks to the devaluation of the peso by the end of 2002, a great increase of the farming activity occurred in Argentina, specially with soybean cultivation. But as this growth of the production took place very suddenly and the demand grew quickly, the
