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The Environmental Fight Starts in Your Neighborhood
By Daniela Estrada and IPSSANTIAGO, Aug 17 2009 (IPS)Chilean neighborhoods are making progress – on a human scale and at a human pace – towards environmentally sustainable communities. Women working in...
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Houses Put to Flood and Hurricane Test
By Verónica Díaz Favela and IPSMEXICO CITY, Aug 31 2009 (IPS)Over a span of eight years, a Mexican engineer visited areas thrashed by hurricanes. His goal was to design a home capable of withstanding...
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Releasing Clean Energy from Manure
By Marcela Valente and IPSBUENOS AIRES, Aug 31 2009 (IPS)Manure, Argentina's leading source of climate-changing emissions is beginning to be used as raw material for clean energy. Beef cattle in a...
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The Goal: Not a Drop Wasted
By Emilio Godoy and IPSSAN FELIPE DEL PROGRESO, Mexico, Sep 14 2009 (IPS)A variety of new methods for making best use of rainwater are being tested in Mexico, which faces water shortages that will only...
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Car Revolution in the Making
By Mario Osava and IPSRIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 21 2009 (IPS)Brazil could take advantage of the electric car boom to build up the industry at home, given the threats of climate change and petroleum crisis –...
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Underwater Museum to Protect Mexico's Coral Reefs
By Verónica Díaz Favela and IPSMEXICO CITY, Sep 28 2009 (IPS)In the ocean depths off the coast of southeastern Mexico, galleries of human sculptures are to be installed as an artistic attraction with...
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Climate Change Just One Factor in Coastal Erosion
By Gabriela Cerioli and IPSBUENOS AIRES, Oct 12 2009 (IPS)To understand the link between global climate change and coastal erosion requires an integration of the otherwise reductionist specialization...
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Fashion Finds Its Green Style
By Daniela Estrada and IPSSANTIAGO, Oct 19 2009 (IPS)Environmental awareness is dawning as a source of inspiration for a new generation of fashion designers. Clothing from the Potencial Pandemia...
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Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples
By Valentina Martínez Valdés and IPSMÉRIDA, Mexico, Nov 16 2009 (IPS)The idea of “wilderness” also encompasses its opposite: urbanized, exploited or altered lands. That is why it is beyond the...
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Mexico Has Big Plans for Ethanol from Algae
By Verónica Díaz Favela and IPSMEXICO CITY, Nov 30 2009 (IPS)A biological process in which blue-green algae produces ethanol will be the basis for fuel production by a Mexican company beginning next...
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Q&A: South Must Harmonise To Take Advantage of Common Interests
IPS interviews EDWARD OMOTOSO, U.N. Special Unit for South-South CooperationBy IPSNAIROBI, Dec 5 2009 (IPS)Fifty-five years after the Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung, Kwame Nkrumah’s exhortation to...
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Q&A: South Is No Longer a Peripheral Actor
IPS interviews AMBASSADOR NASSIR ABDULAZIZ AL-NASSER of QatarBy IPSWASHINGTON, Dec 15 2009 (IPS)There are broad prospects for developing countries to build on complementarities and leverage South-South...
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Natural Heritage of the Honduran Caribbean on a Tightrope
By Sonia Edith Parra and IPSTRUJILLO, Honduras, Jun 21 2010 (IPS)The great biodiversity of a protected area on the Honduran Caribbean coast is at risk, despite the efforts of a handful of residents and...
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Conservation Can Be a Weapon Against Poverty
By Daniela Pastrana and IPSSIERRA GORDA, Mexico, Jun 28 2010 (IPS)In the Sierra Gorda, in central Mexico, a new approach is being tested for protecting the environment in a way that also ends poverty....
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Laws No Help to Amazon Animals, or People
By Mario Osava and IPSRIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 30 2010 (IPS)Strict laws prevent Brazil's Amazon river dwellers from making use of wildlife that is otherwise destroyed by natural causes anyway, say experts....
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Q&A: “The Beer Industry Is a Leader in Self-Regulation”
IPS interviews CARLOS BRITO, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBevBy IPSMONTEVIDEO, Sep 27 2010 (IPS)Some two billion people around the world drink alcohol, a practice that has been around since time immemorial....
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More Protection, but Not Enough, for Patagonian Sea
By Marcela Valente and IPSBUENOS AIRES, Nov 8 2010 (IPS)Argentina has widely expanded the protected area of the Patagonian Sea, but it is less than two percent of the nation's maritime waters....
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Genetic Flight of Nature's Jewels from Chile
By Daniela Estrada and IPSSANTIAGO, Nov 22 2010 (IPS)Nearly half of Chile's flora is found exclusively in this country and many possess unique chemical compounds. But for now there is no legal way to...
View ArticleFresh Leadership at IPS: Turning a New Leaf
The newly-elected Board of IPS-Inter Press Service, chaired by former Austrian ambassador Dr Walther Lichem, has appointed a new Director-General by acclamation. At its meeting on Aug. 10, the Board...
View ArticleBaby steps for SADC trade
By IPSSep 10 2014 (IPS)The recent European financial crises exposed Africa’s high vulnerability to external factors. This has made a strong case for the importance of Intra-regional trade among SADC...
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Making Eco-History in a Brazilian Beach Town
By Clarinha Glock and IPSGAROPABA, Brazil, Mar 16 2009 (IPS) Waste composting has opened a new path for a southern Brazilian beach destination towards its goal of becoming a “sustainable city”. Compost...
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Hints of Sustainability at Cancún Resorts
By Verónica Díaz Favela and IPSCANCÚN, Mexico, Mar 23 2009 (IPS) Cancún, a resort destination in Mexico, began to lose tourists who were demanding a more natural vacation. As a result, several...
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Bartering Is Not Your Usual Trade
By Gabriela Cerioli and IPSBUENOS AIRES, Apr 6 2009 (IPS) The exchange of goods and services without involving money rises and falls in Argentina in inverse proportion to national prosperity, and is...
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In Peru, Water Isn't For Everyone
By Blanca Rosales and IPSLIMA, Apr 13 2009 (IPS) The frozen treasure of Peru's glaciers is melting away, leaving the population facing a dry future. Marco Zapata on the shrinking Pastoruri Glacier in...
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Electronic Garbage Can Produce Marvels
By Clarinha Glock and IPSPORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Apr 20 2009 (IPS) While learning to recycle electronic waste, young Brazilians are acquiring skills and greater awareness about the impacts of material...
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The Farmers Who Abandoned Coca for Cocoa
By Constanza Vieira and IPSFLORENCIA, Colombia, Jun 1 2009 (IPS) Amidst the violence of civil war and the illegal coca trade, a handful of Colombian farmers have embraced chocolate production in the...
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Nature Paths Instead of Wall for Rio Slum
By Fabiana Frayssinet and IPSRIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 8 2009 (IPS) Rio de Janeiro's largest slum has halted construction of a much-criticized wall in exchange for ecological and recreational corridors...
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Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Engine
By Marcela Valente and IPSBUENOS AIRES, Jun 15 2009 (IPS) The touristic city of Neochea, Argentina, is putting together a pioneering plan for the compulsory collection of used cooking oil from...
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Mexican Scientists and Communities Forge Eco-Alliances
By Verónica Díaz Favela and IPSMEXICO CITY, Jun 15 2009 (IPS) Two worlds join forces in Mexico — academia and common folk — to confront environmental problems. Graciela González answers phone calls,...
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Rare Metals Could Trigger Next Trade War
By Emilio Godoy and IPSMEXICO CITY, Jun 22 2009 (IPS) China beat the United States to the punch and has cornered production of rare metals used in environmentally friendly technologies that the world...
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Petroleum Sullies the Peruvian Amazon
By Milagros Salazar and IPSBAGUA, Peru, Jun 29 2009 (IPS) More than 70 percent of the Peruvian Amazon was divided up into concessions for oil investments between 2003 and 2008, according to a...
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Red Card for Porto Alegre?
By Clarinha Glock and IPSPORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jul 13 2009 (IPS) The 2014 soccer World Cup has created a dilemma for the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre: real estate and tourism development or...
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Geothermal Debate Simmers in El Tatio
By Daniela Estrada and IPSSANTIAGO, Jul 20 2009 (IPS) El Tatio, the world's third largest geyser field, is in the sights of energy, tourism and conservation interests. El Tatio Geyser field in northern...
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Green Therapy on the Rooftops
By Verónica Díaz Favela and IPSMEXICO CITY, Jul 27 2009 (IPS) In Mexico City there are more than 8,000 square meters of public building rooftops covered with vegetation. This novel approach for...
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A Slow Revolution at the Dinner Table
By Miren Gutierrez and IPSBELLAGIO, Italy, Jul 27 2009 (IPS) “The day we all decide to eat fresh and local, to eat less meat… we will have a revolution,” says Paolo di Croce, secretary-general of Slow...
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