Mandatory PSAs at the Movies?
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009The Governor of Brazil’s Federal District (DF) just signed a law that would require all the cinemas in the DF to exhibit “educative campaigns on the preservation, conservation, restoration and improvement of the environment” before showing films. The campaigns are to be produced and supplied by the DF’s agencies responsible for the preservation, conservation, restoration […]
Mexico’s DF Promotes Organics
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Over the last couple of years, there have been several signs that the government of Mexico’s Federal District (DF) — the zone encompassing Mexico City and its environs — is growing more serious about cleaning up its act and going green. The GDF finally issued the implementing regulation for its breakthrough waste law. It published […]
Trash Photos XVIII: Fluorescent Lamp Collection in Brasilia
Thursday, June 18th, 2009I’m in Brasilia now, and had some time between meetings, so I wandered through Patio Brasil, one of the shopping centers here. If times allows, I like to wander through shopping centers in the cities that I visit. I do it not so much for actual shopping or even window-shopping in the usual sense, but […]
IMSP Finds Health Benefits of Mexico City’s Anti-Smoking Law
Thursday, June 11th, 2009Mexico’s National Public Health Institute (INSP) has released a study of health effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS, sometimes also referred to as “passive smoking” or secondhand smoke”) in bars and restaurants. The study checked 633 workers at 219 establishments in the the Federal District (DF, which comprises Mexico City and its environs) […]
Obesity Among Mexican School Children
Friday, January 2nd, 2009In a prior post I discussed how growing concern about weight problems among Mexican children is leading to calls there for restrictions on the advertising and marketing of certain foods and beverages to children. A recent National Public Health Institute (INSP) survey of children in Mexico’s public schools details the dimensions of the problem (the […]