Archive for September, 2007
« Previous EntriesPostscript on the Battery Recycling Controversy in Paraná
Sunday, September 30th, 2007Remember the local opposition to a car battery “recycling” (mining) operation in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná last March that eventually led to state environment officials in May to suspend the company’s environmental license and initiating a full review of all state environmental, health and safety policies regarding enterprises handling lead and its compounds? […]
World Heart Day – Are You Caring for Your Heart?
Saturday, September 29th, 2007Tomorrow, Sunday, 30 September, is World Heart Day. How well are you taking care of your heart? The World Heart Federation (WHF), a small NGO based in Geneva, Switzerland, created the annual campaign in the year 2000 to increase public awareness of the threat of heart disease and stroke and the importance of a heart-healthy […]
Minas Seeks Packaging Waste Dialogue with Tetra-Pak
Friday, September 28th, 2007Paraná forced a deal on Tetra Pak regarding waste from its long-life packaging (aseptic) packaging; now Minas Gerais (MG) wants a dialog about the same issue. If I were Tetra Pak executives, I’d start being concerned about the direction the drink packaging waste issue is taking in Brazil (if they aren’t already). As I mentioned […]
GEF Funds Binational Ecosystem Management Project / Donación del GEF para la gestión de un ecosistema binacional
Friday, September 28th, 2007From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB): IDB announces $3.5 million grant for binational ecosystem management on border between Costa Rica and Panama Resources from the Global Environmental Facility for project in the Sixaola river basin A $3.5 million grant from the Global Environmental Facility will help finance a project to improve environmental management in the […]
PAHO to Food Industry: Embrace “Trans-Fat Free Americas”
Friday, September 28th, 2007From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): Nutrition Experts Call on Food Industry to Support “Trans Fat Free Americas” Experts on nutrition and public health are calling on leaders in the food industry to speed up the elimination of industrially produced trans fatty acids from the foods they produce and distribute, and to become partners […]
OECS Needs to Get Serious About Environmental Management
Friday, September 28th, 2007Temas Foreword: The OECS is a collection of nine small island states (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines) and territories (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat) in the Eastern Caribbean that cooperate in a variety of areas, including the environment (wastes, watershed management, environmental planning, etc.). […]
The Need to Improve the Safety of Children’s Medicines
Friday, September 28th, 2007Pharmacovigilance and medicine safety issues in children are relevant to everyone who has an interest in and cares about the health of children. In order to gain full marketing authorization, the law in most countries requires pharmaceutical firms to demonstrate that they have tested their medicines in healthy volunteers and patients for possible adverse effects. […]
More Brazilian Cities Move to Recycle C&D Waste
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Last December I blogged about a new mayoral decree in South America’s largest city, São Paulo, that required the use of recycled civil construction and demolition (C&D) wastes in some city projects (primarily paving). Not to be outdone, Beto Richa, the mayor of what many consider to be South America’s “greenest” metropolis, Curitiba (the capital […]
Dia Sin Auto en Chile
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Last weekend (22 Sept.) it was World Carfree Day, celebrated mainly in Latin America in Brazil, Quito, Ecuador and San Luis Potosí, Mexico. By all accounts it was a success in Brazil — for details in Portuguese (including some nice photos) on what happened in the various cities there, check with the Rua Viva blog. […]
LAC Explores Sustainable Consumption and Production Policy
Thursday, September 27th, 2007This past April São Paulo State’s environment agency, CETESB, hosted Brazil’s National Roundtable on Sustainable Sustainable Consumption and Production. At the end of June the top body of the five-nation MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela), the Common Market Council (CMC), adopted a binding Decision calling for an action plan, program and common policy on […]
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