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« Previous EntriesThe Carbon Footprint of Biofuels
Sunday, June 29th, 2008It is becoming increasingly difficult to find balanced discussions of any issue associated with biofuels. Biofuel proponents talk as if biofuels can solve all ills and can do little to no wrong (whether they have data to back that up or not), and their detractors tend to reject any notion whatesoever that they can be […]
Get Tested, Caribbean
Friday, June 27th, 2008If you happen to be in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Maarten or Jamaica tomorrow, Friday 27 June, stop by the local branch of Scotiabank. Why? Because Scotiabank, in cooperation with the local health authorities and members of the Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS (CBMP), is […]
Energy Efficiency Grant for Argentina / Donación para eficiencia energética en Argentina
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Good news, and certainly something Argentina needs urgently. Interesting that it is given as a grant rather than a loan. ________________________ From the World Bank: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY (GEF) AND WORLD BANK DONATE US$15 MILLION TO SUPPORT ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN ARGENTINA The World Bank approved today a US$15 million grant from the Global Environment Facility […]
The Caribbean Challenge
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Yes, I know, this announcement was made publicly at the end of May. I held off talking about here, in part to work first on older backlog from The Temas Blog queue, and in part to see if, as hinted, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Dominica and St. Lucia would quickly announce that […]
Passive Smoking Evidence from Entre Rios, Argentina
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Synopsis in English: You can still find people disputing the health impacts on non-smokers of those smoking around them, but they are a dwindling group. Here is another small study that may give them pause. The Applied Toxicology department of the Bromatology Faculty of the National University of Entre Rios (UNER), tested the urine of […]
Farm Animal Production and Climate Change
Monday, June 23rd, 2008The May issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, the peer-reviewed monthly research journal of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), featured an article* on the contribution of farm animal production to climate change. Although the article does not focus just on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), given the importance of farm animal […]
Improving Paraguay’s Environmental Management
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB): IDB approves US$8 million for National Environmental System in Paraguay Resources will improve land use planning and promote citizen participation The Inter-American Development Bank today approved two loans worth US$8 million for Paraguay to support its national environmental system. This is the second stage of a program that began […]
State of the North American Environment
Saturday, June 21st, 2008The North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has just released a “state of the environment” (SOE) report entitled The North American Mosiac (English, Spanish, French). The CEC is the main vehicle for environmental cooperation between Canada, Mexico and the US, and as I stated in a prior post, like it or not, Mexico has […]
LAC Health Stats, Trends and Trivia
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Which Latin American or Caribbean nation smokes or drinks the most? In which are you more likely to die from cancer than infectious diseases such as malaria or dengue? Which has the highest percentage of obese people? Which spends the most on the health of their citizens? If you you’ve ever wondered about such questions, […]
Is Childhood Vaccination Against Hepatitis A Cost-Effective? Results of a Chilean Study
Friday, June 20th, 2008The May 2008 issue of the Pan American Journal of Public Health, the scientific journal published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), contained an article* that analyzes the cost-effectiveness of universal vaccination of children against hepatitis A in Chile. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hepatitis A is highly prevalent across Latin America […]