Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – PERU: Opportunity in Kyoto Protocol

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Peru's Center for Efficient Technology is proposing that the districts of the capital stop burning garbage or burying it in sanitary landfills, and instead treat the waste using techniques that do not emit methane, a gas that contributes to global warming.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Legal Reform on Shad

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Argentine environmentalists are fighting the changes approved Nov. 12 on a fishing law passed in 2003, with the consensus of local residents and fisherfolk, for the sustainable exploitation of the Paraná River's fish resources.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Bamboo Instead of Coffee

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Guatemalan authorities have approved a project for large-scale cultivation of bamboo, with support from the government of Taiwan, deputy agriculture minister Ramiro Pérez told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Government Pushes Ecotourism

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The number of visitors to Colombia's national parks this year quadrupled the number reported in 2002, Environment Minister Sandra Suárez said Nov. 16 as she launched the National Policy to Develop Ecotourism.

Ecobreves – GLOBAL: Push for Sustainable Investment

By IPS Correspondents and - -
New global measures for promoting sustainable consumption and clean production in sectors like water and energy management and agriculture are the focus of debate by some 300 experts in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, Nov. 15-16.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Solar Energy for the Wayuú

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Wayuú indigenous community, whose home is on the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and Venezuela will soon benefit from the tropical sun that shines down on them 12 hours of every day. For the first time, they will obtain electricity from the sunlight, with the installation of photovoltaic panels in Casuasín, one of the towns of the Guajira plateau.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Heat Generates Biodiesel

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A device that converts vegetable oil into biodiesel through a thermal process, and is able to produce up to 250 liters of sustainable fuel per day, has been developed by the government agricultural research agency, Embrapa.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Towns Unite to Take Care of River

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Eleven towns in the Honduran department of Choluteca, on the southern border with Nicaragua, have organized to protect the watershed of the Choluteca River, which supplies the communities with water.

Ecobreves – CHILE: : Promoting 'Green' Firewood

By IPS Correspondents and - -
In southern Chile there has been progress in promoting sustainable use of firewood, according to a seminar organized by the National Environmental Commission and other agencies Nov. 11-12 in the city of Teuco, 670 km south of Santiago.

Ecobreves – CUBA: : Water Arrives by Train

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The eastern Cuban city of Holguín is receiving 300,000 liters of water a day, delivered by train, to deal with the shortages caused by continued severe drought, reported the local government.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Staking Bets on Natural Rubber

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- Guatemalan producers of natural rubber are working to boost the 50,000 metric tons they harvest each year. They want to take advantage of the rising international price of synthetic rubber, a petroleum-based product.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Ecuadorian Indians Fight Oil Company

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A delegation from Ecuador's Kichwa indigenous community, which is embroiled in a dispute with the Argentine oil company CGC in the Ecuadorian Amazon, will head to Buenos Aires this month to meet with civil society groups and officials to seek support for their cause.

Ecobreves – PERU: Demand for Disaster-Prevention Measures

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Peru lacks an effect system for preventing extreme impacts from natural disasters, despite being one of the world's most seismically unstable countries and bearing the brunt of El Niño climate phenomena, including floods, drought and mudslides, says president of Red Cross - Peru, Edgardo Calderón.

Ecobreves – MEXICO:: No Funds for Measuring Pollution

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Many types of air pollution in the Mexican capital, including many that cause cancer, cannot be monitored due to the lack of financial support from the government, which ''appears to be uninterested in research,'' complain scientists.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Energy from Palm Trees

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A group of Honduran investors built the first "clean energy" plant run on waste pulp from the African palm. Constructed in northern Honduras, it can generate 600 kilowatts per hour.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Third Nuclear Plant on the Way

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Brazilian government will decided towards the end of the year whether it will build Angra III, the country's third nuclear power plant.

Ecobreves – CHILE: A Smelly Anniversary

By IPS Correspondents and - -
On Oct. 29, 2003, La Farfana wastewater treatment plant was inaugurated in the Chilean capital. It is the country's largest such facility, but today is the center of conflict due to the foul odors emanating from the site.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Ancient Plant Grows in Herbarium

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A tiny, ancient plant, known in Spanish as palma corcho (Microcycas calocoma) is considered the world's oldest ''living fossil'' and grows in a village of Cuba's warm, arid east.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Channeling a Rain-Filled River

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Under downpours during a rainy season that extended beyond the usual dates, dozens of workers are building a 150-meter slope to channel the Guaire River, which crosses through the Venezuelan capital.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Peasants Approve Anti-GM Corn Report

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca applaud a report detailing how genetically modified maize has contaminated local cornfields. The study was prepared by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC).

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Mining Pollution Denounced

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Ecologists, academics and concerned citizens will present a complaint to UNESCO in December against the Argentine federal government and the government of the western province of San Juan for permitting mining activity by the Canadian firm Barrick Gold.
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