By Martín Cagliani •
March 12, 2008
In Argentina, there are a lot of rural schools without electricity. Now, the provincial minister of education, from Corrientes, has invested 2 million dollars in a program to bring solar power to those schools. This program is part of a national attempt to eradicate the absence of electricity in the remote areas of Argentina.
During the next months, engineers will install the solar cells provided by a Spanish firm in each school. In time, the school’s directors will have to take responsibility for the solar system.
By Martín Cagliani •
March 1, 2008
Chile wants to make progress, but… does that progress always have to be against nature? Chile’s government is planning a project that could put 4,6 million hectares of the environment in danger.
They are planning to build five hydroelectric dams and a high tension line that will be the largest in the world. It will cross Chile from south to north and thus divide it in two.
By Martín Cagliani •
February 27, 2008
Until today, stolen or crashed vehicles with judicial causes remained forever at fiscal deposits or police stations, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There you could see, literally, mountains of cars and junk. As you can imagine these places became focal points of infection and contamination.
To avoid the growing car cemeteries, the government of Buenos Aires has decided to eradicate these prejudicial elements to the environment. How? They plan on compacting the cars [...]
By Martín Cagliani •
February 26, 2008
I’m traveling trough Patagonia, Argentina, and exploring how eco-friendly the Patagonians are.
I drove through route 3. It runs across Argentina from north to south, next to the Atlantic coast. Here you can see a beautiful landscape, steppe to one side and deep blue ocean to the other.
Patagonia: it’s a land of dinosaurs, oil and strong winds. The latter is responsible for a horrifying realization–how dirty it is! The last time I visited Patagonia was six years ago, and I didn’t see the mass amount of plastic bags everywhere.
By Martín Cagliani •
February 16, 2008
If you follow me, I’ll take you on an eco-trip around the world, visiting the most beautiful green places of our living planet Earth. The idea is to know the forests and trees that we want to save when we fight for an eco-friendly world to live on.
The first eco-place, will be the National Park Los Alerces in Argentina. You can find it at Chubut province, in the Argentinian Patagonia. It has some of the most beautiful biodiversity in the world, with a wide and rare vegetable variety.
Six lakes are nestled in there. The Lake Futalaufquen, flows to Lake Verde and Menéndez by the Arrayanes river, and Lake Verde flows to Lake Rivadavia by the deep green Rivadavia river.
