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2008 Goldman Prize Winner Jesus Leon Santos on Bringing Desert Lands Back to Life
Photo credit: Will Parrinello and Jim Iacona. In a time when "modern" agriculture is depleting many areas of Latin America as farmers seek higher yields, Jesus Leon Santos is taking the opposite route. He is using ancient agriculture systems and
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Investment Group Plants Five Thousand Acres of Jatropha For Biofuel In Yucatan Mexico
The Yucatan Peninsula, in addition to being a corn producing region in Mexico, also contains abandoned sisal plantations, where the growing of Jatropha for biodiesel production would not displace food. So this investment could make sense - depending
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HSBC Tower Gets Mexico's First LEED Gold Rating
We admit we should have jumped on this news earlier, like in late 2007, but better late than never to report that the HSBC Tower in downtown Mexico City is the first building in Latin America to receive LEED Gold certification from the Mexico Green
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Earth Day: Latin Celebrities Give Green Advice
In the first year Earth Day that has gathered attention in Latin America, a couple of the region's biggest musicians, actors and performers have participated in a campaign held by National Geographic to raise awareness in society about our part in the
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Mexican Authorities Return Illegal Logs to Forest Communities
Thanks to the movie Homegrown, we know that the police often burn marijuana once they confiscate it. But what do authorities do with the illegally logged timber they seize? According to the Mexican daily Reforma, officials
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Mexico City Receives Payment for BRT Carbon Mitigation
In recent months, we've noted that two Mexican companies, Pemex and Cemex, are looking for ways to mitigate their carbon dioxide emissions under the Kyoto Protocol and get paid for it.
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My Organics Are Bigger than Yours
Many biodynamic moons ago we reported that Australia had the world’s largest area of organically farmed land. That remains the case three years on. But so does the caveat that it is mostly due to that
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Mexico's CEMEX Solidifies Carbon Credit Niche
Last year, we noted that Mexico's oil monopoly Pemex was investigating opportunities to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Development Mechanism, a pollutant trading system mandated under the Kyoto Protocol.
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Mexico City To Compost Food Waste From Central Food Market
Each day Mexico City produces 5,100 tons of organic waste, 600 of which come from the city's sprawling Central de Abasto, or central marketplace. The center, known as the CEDA, is the largest food distribution center in the country and one of the
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Mapping North American Environmental Issues
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) recently launched a new online mapping tool called the North American Environmental Atlas where North American environmental trends can be
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Mexican Student Builds Eco-Video Game
José Carlos Rivera, a student studying computer science at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education in the city of Guadalajara, has designed a game entitled Ship Shop, offering players a kind of eco-justice perhaps
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Construction Boom Creates Air Pollution in Monterrey, Mexico
While the best-known pollution in Mexico is Mexico City's air, which mainly comes from the combustion of vehicle fuel, it's not the only place with a problem or the only kind of pollution in circulation posing a serious risk to human health.
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NAFTA Bad For Mexico's Air Quality
You've just traded in your old junker for a brand new, fuel-efficient car. It's quiet, clean, and leaves your friends 'green' with envy. You feel mighty good about the purchase, and well you should, right? Well, according to a recent Los Angeles
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Emiliano Godoy's Arbol Lamps: Another LED Turn-On
Combining the warmth of sustainably-harvested birch plywood with the cool efficiency of LEDs, Emiliano Godoy (with help from Alejandro Castro and Alejandro Machorro) was a winner at the 2007 National Design Biennial in Mexico City for his Arbol Lamps.
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Busybody Microbes Clean Up Mexico's Dirty Water
Microbial organisms are an impressive and under-appreciated bunch, and scientists and entrepreneurs alike are increasingly realizing their potential for cleaning up after our environmental messes.
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Mexico Gets Rolling with PET and Cardboard Recycling
Not long ago, we addressed Mexico's struggles in managing its burgeoning mounds of electronic waste.
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Chiapas Biosphere Reserve Recognized as Biodiversity Protection Model
La Encrucijada, a protected coastal wetland ecosystem in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, was recognized this week at the third World Congress of Biosphere Reserves, as a model of environmental protection. The event, held in Madrid, Spain from
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Mexico Boosts Wetlands Inventory to 19.8 Million Acres
In honor of World Wetlands Day, Mexico added 45 wetlands to an international registry that promotes conservation and sustainable development, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. Ramsar, which now covers more than 1,699 wetlands totaling 375 million acres,
