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Buenos Aires Province Formally Launches Sustainable Hotel Certification System
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009The Provincial Sustainable Development Organ (OPDS) of Buenos Aires Province just launched formally the “sustainable hotels” certification program that it announced last August it would create.
The program will judge lodging in touristic destinations within the Province on their “efficient use” of natural resources, minimization of the use of toxic chemical products, maximization of the use [...]
Outlook for “Green Jobs” / Prognóstico para “empleos verdes”
Monday, December 15th, 2008While the idea of creating a “green economy” with “green jobs” has been around quite a while, it really started to gain serious consideration as the climate change debate heated up, and recently moved front-and-center during the US presidential elections and the debates about how best to respond to the global financial crisis (here, here, [...]
US$200 mil. for Water & Sanitation in Argentina / US$200 milliones para agua y saneamiento en Argentina
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
Argentina receives US$200 million in financing for potable water and sanitation program
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$200 million loan to expand potable water and sanitation services in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area and suburbs.
This project is part of a wider expansion program which seeks to add 1.5 [...]
Transformando aceites usados a biodiesel / Transforming Used Oil into Biofuel
Thursday, September 18th, 2008The Provincial Organism for Sustainable Development (OPDS), the environment authority of the Province of Buenos Aires (PBA) has launched a program to collect used vegetable (cooking) oil (aceites vegetales usados - AVU) and recycling it by converting it into biodiesel for export.
Used cooking oil has long been a waste disposal problem. Many people — whether [...]
Buenos Aires Province to Launch Sustainable Hotels Certification Program
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Synopsis in English: The environment authority of the Argentine Province of Buenos Aires, the Provincial Organ for Sustainable Development (Organismo Provincial para el Desarrollo Sostenible - OPDS), has announced that it is creating an eco-certification program for tourism establishments (primarily lodging) there. The “Green Star” program will rate not only conventional hotels, but also [...]
Getting a Handle on E-Waste Data in LAC: Argentina
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008The Data Problem
One of the key challenges in formulating a reasonable and effective policy on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is figuring out how much there is, what type of WEEE it is (different WEEE pose different hazardous material/waste management challenges), and what is happening to it [...]
Getting Mercury Out of Healthcare
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008In July the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) proudly announced that all public hospitals within city limits had eliminated their inventory of old fashioned mercury thermometers and replaced them with digital ones.
Why is that significant?
A 2006 study done by CABA’s Environmental Health office found that the City’s public hospitals emitted about 40 kg of [...]
Finding Eco-Diagnoses for LAC
Friday, June 20th, 2008In a prior post on the Temas library of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) legal texts for download, I promised to highlight other changes and additions to the updated site.
The biggest addition to the site has been the Temas Tools Section, a collection of references and tools that help in understanding, shaping and managing policy [...]
Inequities in Water and Sanitation Services in Argentina
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Not too long ago an Argentine think tank, the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimento - CIPPEC), released a report* analyzing the provision of potable water and sanitation services within Argentina.
The CIPPEC analysis demonstrates, to my mind, [...]
It’s Clean Up the World Weekend — Get Involved!
Friday, September 14th, 2007This weekend across the world, including much of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), people will be joining NGOs and community groups in events designed to clean up beaches, coastal waters, rivers, lakes, parks, reserves and their surroundings as part of the annual Clean Up the World Weekend. Copied below is the official press [...]
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