Green Options » Latin America http://greenoptions.com/tag/latin-america Posts tagged 'Latin America' Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:56:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en WATER: #1 Global Security & Health Concern http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/07/1-global-security-health-concern-water/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/07/1-global-security-health-concern-water/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:56:31 +0000 Zachary Shahan http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/07/1-global-security-health-concern-water/

Water scarcity resulting from climate change is the number one issue the world will have to grapple with in the future, according to chief climate scientist and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri.

On the one hand, we will have more water around us with sea level rising. On the other hand, though, drought caused by climate change will leave possibly billions of people without clean water.

This will cause great health and global security issues. Most of these problems will be caused by water imbalances.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/07/1-global-security-health-concern-water/feed/ Costa Rica Tops World as Greenest, Happiest Country http://ecoworldly.com/2009/07/07/costa-rica-tops-world-as-greenest-happiest-country/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/07/07/costa-rica-tops-world-as-greenest-happiest-country/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:38:48 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecoworldly.com/2009/07/07/costa-rica-tops-world-as-greenest-happiest-country/ Costa Rica is the happiest, greenest country on EarthPositive ecology and being happy complement one another when it comes to the Happy Planet Index (HPI).  The HPI was developed by the New Economics Foundation (nef), and Costa Rica tops the charts as the happiest, greenest country on planet Earth.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/07/07/costa-rica-tops-world-as-greenest-happiest-country/feed/ Argentina to Build Most Powerful Solar Energy Park in Latin America http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/18/argentina-to-build-most-powerful-solar-energy-park-in-latin-america/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/18/argentina-to-build-most-powerful-solar-energy-park-in-latin-america/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 17:20:32 +0000 Levi Novey http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/18/argentina-to-build-most-powerful-solar-energy-park-in-latin-america/ In the western Argentinian province of San Juan, the provincial government has authorized the development of what will be the most powerful solar energy park in Latin America to date. The park is hoped to be operational by the summer of 2010.

A Buenos Aires landmark, the solar powered Floralis Generica.

A bidding process will begin in June of this year, and Brazilian, German, and Spanish companies are expected to invest in the project, which has an estimated price tag of $120 million dollars. The provinicial government of San Juan has already agreed to invest between $15 and $20 million.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/18/argentina-to-build-most-powerful-solar-energy-park-in-latin-america/feed/ Note to Obama: Promote Carbon Cap and Trade Efforts at the Summit of the Americas http://ecoworldly.com/2009/04/15/note-to-obama-promote-carbon-cap-and-trade-efforts-at-the-summit-of-the-americas/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/04/15/note-to-obama-promote-carbon-cap-and-trade-efforts-at-the-summit-of-the-americas/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:15:23 +0000 Levi Novey http://ecoworldly.com/2009/04/15/note-to-obama-promote-carbon-cap-and-trade-efforts-at-the-summit-of-the-americas/ The Fifth Summit of the Americas logoThis week, U.S. President Barack Obama will head to Trinidad and Tobago for the 5th Summit of the Americas. He will meet with leaders from Western Hemisphere Nations and discuss a number of pressing issues such as the worldwide economic crisis, U.S. relations with Cuba, trade, energy, conservation, illegal immigration, poverty, and drugs.

Should we expect anything meaningful to happen on the conservation front as a result of the summit and Obama’s new approach toward international relations?

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/04/15/note-to-obama-promote-carbon-cap-and-trade-efforts-at-the-summit-of-the-americas/feed/ Earth to Musicians: STING’s Amazing Rainforest Foundation http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/08/10/earth-to-musicians-stings-amazing-rainforest-foundation/ http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/08/10/earth-to-musicians-stings-amazing-rainforest-foundation/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:43:57 +0000 Lucille Chi http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/08/10/earth-to-musicians-stings-amazing-rainforest-foundation/ More than two decades ago, rock star Sting, and his wife, Trudie Styler, created The Rainforest Foundation and over the last 20 years it has expanded and diversified. There is the New York-based Rainforest Foundation Fund, backed by Sting, which provides funding for three branches - Rainforest Foundation US, Rainforest Foundation Norway, Rainforest Foundation UK (together they directly support projects in more than 20 countries that protect tropical rainforests and the people that live there)…

Every year an area of rainforest the size of England and Wales is cut down. This leaves local people homeless, drives animals and plants to extinction and releases more CO2 emissions (which cause climate change), than all of the world’s planes, trains and automobiles. Tropical deforestation is an issue that affects us all. ~The Rainforest Foundation

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]]> http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/08/10/earth-to-musicians-stings-amazing-rainforest-foundation/feed/ Highlights from the EU-LAC Summit http://ecoworldly.com/2008/05/20/highlights-from-the-eu-lac-summit/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/05/20/highlights-from-the-eu-lac-summit/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 04:08:13 +0000 Levi Novey http://ecoworldly.com/2008/05/20/highlights-from-the-eu-lac-summit/ Presidents at the EU-LAC Summit, 2008

This past weekend, a major summit was held in Lima, Peru between leaders of European Union countries and also Latin American and Caribbean countries. Numerous agenda items were on the table, but the overall focuses of the meetings were upon the global food crisis, climate change, poverty, and potential trade agreements. Of course, what would an international summit be without some

  1. good, old-fashioned name-calling to put everyone on edge before hand
  2. a President attending a “rival summit” and taking time to go play some football! (Soccer for Americans.)
  3. and an uninspiring finish where seemingly little got accomplished, but yet we can hold onto hope because there are plans to keep the conversation going.

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