Full Coverage: Pollution

22.01.2007 "denunciamos al país y a la comunidad internacional, que las empresas canadienses Corrientes Resources, bajo el nombre de Ecuacorrientes y la Ascendant Copper Corporation (con capitales estadounidenses-canadienses) están cometiendo una serie de atropellos a los derechos humanos de las comunidades"

19.01.2007 from Celsias:
It takes the U.S. only 5.4 seconds to generate a 1000 tonnes of CO2. The Democratic Republic of Congo takes about five hours. This site is a remarkable tool.

18.01.2007 Environmental, human rights and occupational health workers from 14 Asian countries attending the fifth Waste Not Asia (WNA) conference have called for adoption of Integrated Zero Waste Management instead of polluting technologies like incinerators. The conference also called upon the UN and affiliated bodies to condemn and end the promotion of incinerators and other materials destruction technologies.

15.01.2007 WWF:n vapaaehtoiset käynnistivät tänään öljyturman jälkeiset siivoustoimet Norjassa. Fedjen saaren edustalla tapahtunut öljyonnettomuus on osoittanut, että Norjan varautuminen öljyntorjuntaan on puutteellista. WWF muistuttaa, että öljykatastrofi voi tapahtua myös Suomessa ja vaatii Suomen öljyntorjuntavalmiutta parannettavaksi.

08.01.2007 The WNA Meeting is a gathering of people from Asia who share a vision of building a Zero Waste society through sustainable consumption, clean production, Zero Waste and ecology-friendly approaches to managing discards. This time the meeting is being held at the south Indian city of Kovalam in Kerala between January 15 to 18, 2007.

07.01.2007 from How to Save the World blog:
'The most effective way an individual can protect the global environment, and hence protect the well-being of all living people, is to abstain from creating another human being.'

06.01.2007 from ecolocal blog:
From now on, all cars in the European Union can be recycled for free.

05.01.2007 from GroovyGreen:
How to get more miles out of your hybrid (or any other car for that matter).

04.01.2007 Women and young girls coughing and choking as they cook food over traditional stoves that burn wood, leaves or dung is a common a sight in poor homes across Asia, Africa and Latin America. But no one notices the deleterious effects