Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Fomenting Clean Production

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- The Honduran Business Council for Sustainable Development, with backing from the United Nations, will begin a program in July to promote alternative energy sources and sustainable waste management in the industrial zones along the northern coast.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Anti-Coal Coalition Launched

By IPS Correspondents and - -
"No to Coal!" is the slogan of a coalition of two-dozen environmental groups formalized last week to demand a ban in Brazil on this energy source. Their priority is to prevent the construction of five coal-fired electrical plants in southern Brazil, where the country's coal deposits are located.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Getting Rid of Pesticides

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Venezuela will invest 4.2 million dollars on destroying a thousand tons of pesticides, including DDT (dichloro dyphenil trychloroethane), toxaphene, lead arsenate and methyl bromide.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Dive-Fishing to End in 2005

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The government of Honduras announced that beginning next year it will work to eliminate dive-fishing for lobster in the Caribbean department of La Mosquitia, a fishing technique that has left at least 4,200 indigenous divers injured.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Protecting Rivers

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Guatemala's Ministry of Agriculture is set to protect the Xayá and Pixcayá rivers in the western department of Chimaltenango, which supply 38 percent of the potable water consumed in the capital.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Saving a Natural Pool

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A canal to begin curbing the severe contamination of Los Cangilones del Río Máximo, a natural pool set 550 km east of the Cuban capital, is nearly ready to begin operating.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Eco-Activists Disappointed in President's Message

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The annual report to Congress by Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, presented May 21, shows that "the government has not complied nor does it aim to comply with its promises" on environmental issues, said Sara Larraín, coordinator of the Sustainable Chile Program.

Ecobreves – GLOBAL: Getting Ready for Youth Summit

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 600 girls and boys from 100 countries will take part in an international environmental conference in July in the United States, where they will discuss global problems, present proposals and demand answers from the adult world.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: No Sign of Environmental Report

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Argentine Environment and Natural Resources Foundation asked the government for the official environmental report for 2003, which should have been published in November but has yet to appear.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Proposals for Garbage Crisis

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Regional Autonomous Corporation, regional environmental authority for the Colombian department Atlántico, proposed construction of three landfills to remedy the crisis arising from poor management of solid waste.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Military Guards Nature Park

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Sixty soldiers from the Guatemalan army will back 50 agents of the National Civil Police (PNC) in fighting vandals and drug traffickers who threaten the Laguna del Tigre National Park, located in the northern department of El Petén.

Ecobreves – PERU: A Call to Ban Asbestos Use

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Three civil society groups asked the Peruvian Congress on May 17 to ban the use of asbestos in industrial processes after a press conference in which they presented four former employees of an auto parts factory who suffer asbestosis.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Electric Company Floods Indian Cemetery

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Chilean minister of planning, Andrés Palma, said on May 11 that the Endesa electric company must pay damages to the indigenous Pehuenche community for flooding their cemetery when the reservoir of the Ralco dam was filled without authorization.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Celebrating Sustainable Agriculture

By IPS Correspondents and - -

Ecobreves – CUBA: Homemade Vegetable Soap

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A community project under way in this eastern province of Cuba promotes the production of homemade soap using the physic or Barbados nut (Jatropha curcas), the cultivation of which also improves soils damaged by drought or salinity.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Water Lentils Cover Lake Maracaibo

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A fine layer of water lentils (Lemnaceae family) has extended during the past few weeks over a quarter of Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela, underscoring the high level of water pollution that affects fish and lake navigation.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Dump Filling Up

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An enormous garbage dump less than two km from the Guatemalan capital's historic center could reach its breaking point within three years and cause serious damage, warns Mario Dary, minister of environment and natural resources.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Green News in Mosquitia

By IPS Correspondents and - -
In the Mosquitia region of Honduras, in the northeast, a group of rural communicators is promoting a radio news program focused on sustainable development and cultural preservation among the Misquita, Tawakhas and Pech indigenous communities.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA:: Still No Compensation for Poisoning Victims

By IPS Correspondents and - -
There are 2,800 Costa Rican farm workers affected by the insecticide nemagon (dibromochloropropane) are demanding payment of the compensation that was agreed with the National Insurance Institute (INS), which so far has failed to issue checks on time.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: NASA Backs Satellite Monitoring of Resources

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Guatemala will soon have a satellite monitoring system for its natural resources as part of a program of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which in two year will provide 350,000 dollars in infrastructure and training.

Ecobreves – NORTH AMERICA: Dangerous Air for Kids

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The 12o million children living in Canada, Mexico and United States are exposed to the annual emissions of more than four million tons of dangerous substances that are proven or suspected to be carcinogens, toxic to fetal development or neurotoxins.
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