October 2011
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September 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Patagonia Aysen Film Festival, dams opinions and...
voyagers:
These are the first days after the winter time change, the sunset is dark and the sunrise is bright. From home I can see the Mackay, the city of Coyhaique and the surrounding hills. The snow is moving forward, the inauguration day was snowing near the city for a long time. An anxious feeling was enveloping the city, the next days are fundamental, a commission was voting the Mega...
April 2011
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Patagonia without Dams march, Temuco, Chile
voyagers:
During our last week before leaving for Patagonia, we took part on the Patagonia Without Dams march that took place in Temuco
Todays demonstration was at a national level, all of Chile’s biggest cities are participating in a national movement to protect one of the most bio-diverse places on Earth
Here are some pictures, you can see more in our Flickr
March 2011
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WatchA video about a neighbor building between 8:20 and 9:40 (with some pictures at 6:30 and 7:50 pm =) I blurred the video on purpose, because I wanted to avoid misunderstanding :P by green.lemonpie.cl
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Volunteering at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival... →
Do you like green initiatives? Do you like music and to meet new people?!
Here is your chance to become a Volunteer at Bonnarro Festival 2011
February 2011
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Coachella Festival always Green at the desert →
If you are an artist and you are looking for Coachella VIP tickets and an opportunity to show your artwork to the world this is your chance!
TRASHed Coachella is searching the globe for the greatest artists in modern time to assist with redesigning recycling bins for Coachella
2011. Since 2004, Coachella has hosted this interactive recycling bin art walk to help keep the festival grounds...
December 2010
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November 2010
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Codelco and Solarpack will build the first...
Solarpack, the Spanish multi-national company specializing in solar photovoltaic power plant development, investment, consulting, and services, and Codelco, the largest copper producer in the world, will construct the first industrial solar electric power plant in South America.
The Calama Solar 3 project agreement specifies construction and operation of 1MW of installed power in a new solar...
October 2010
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Amazon drought, worst in 47 years
The Amazon’s 18-meter level on September was the lowest since 1963, disrupting transportation of food, fuel and medicines in northern Brazil. Growers in Brazil’s Southeast expect the drought will lessen output of the nation’s key commodities. Brazil is the world’s biggest producer of coffee, sugar and oranges. The prices of this products are increasing around the globe
The Amazon river and its...
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Existe suficiente agua para satisfacer las...
[Esta es una version en espanol de There is enough water available to meet human needs, but… ]
Aunque menos del uno por ciento del agua existente en la Tierra se encuentra actualmente disponible para uso humano, existe suficiente agua para satisfacer las necesidades humanas y del medio ambiente. El desafío consiste en asegurar suficiente agua en buenas condiciones de forma tal que no...
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There is enough water available to meet human...
Although less than one per cent of water on the Earth is currently accessible for direct human use, there is enough water available to meet human and environmental needs. The challenge is to secure enough water of good quality in a way that doesn’t destroy the very ecosystems, rivers, lakes and aquifers, from which we take our water supplies.
We all live at the water’s edge, whether we are...
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Bye bye stromatolites, it was awesome having you...
Chilean authorities recently approved a new mining project, Pampa Hermosa property of SQM. Pampa Hermosa project is going to extract iodine, sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate near the Pampa del Tamarugal, an oasis of life in the middle of the Atacama Desert.
Even though the project is located just 50 km from the coast, instead of utilizing treated seawater, they are going to extract...
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Argentina protects its glaciers
Environmental organizations and people in general in Argentina are celebrating the approval of a new law which restricts the extraction of minerals, oil and gas near glaciers, in order to protect these enormous freshwater reserves.
By a vote of 35 against 33 and 1 abstention, the Senate approved the bill to preserve glaciers and their surrounding areas last week. The President, Cristina...
September 2010
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Solar cell production climbs to another record in...
Solar photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturers produced a record 10,700 megawatts of PV cells globally in 2009—an impressive 51-percent increase from the year before. While growth in 2009 slowed from the remarkable 89-percent expansion in 2008, it continued the rapid rise of an industry that first reached 1,000 megawatts of production in 2004. By the end of 2009, nearly 23,000 megawatts of PV had...
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Scientists say ozone layer depletion has stopped
The protective ozone layer in the earth’s upper atmosphere has stopped thinning and should largely be restored by mid-century thanks to a ban on harmful chemicals, the chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) which were used in refrigerators, aerosol sprays, and some packing foams.
Ozone provides a natural protective filter against harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun, which can cause sunburn, cataracts,...
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August 2010
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Dams in Amazonia, an interactive map
Containing 60% of the world’s remaining tropical rainforests, the Amazon is an area of immense biodiversity. Known as the “lungs of the planet” the Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in regulating the climate not only of South America, but parts of North America as well. The region is inhabited by nearly 30 million people, including thousands of indigenous tribes and river bank communities...
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Jamie Oliver won an Emmy for Food Revolution
Jamie’s first US network TV series Food Revolution, won an Emmy award for Outstanding Reality Program.
Jamie’s Food Revolution campaign is about getting America cooking again – more cooking at home, more freshly cooked meals at school and people cooking in the community. Jamie says, “This food revolution is about saving America’s health by changing the way you...
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Barrancones thermoelectric approved in Chile,...
I’m sad, annoyed and angry, I feel betrayed by the authorities.
A president who affirms during his presidential campaign that he opposes all new thermoelectric projects because of the environment and the tall that they are going to generate in the exports of the country. A president who when he is directly asked about his opinion on Barrancones and Cruz Grande, two thermoelectric projects...
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WatchChilean opinion leaders recorded a video about the consequences of building the thermoelectric projects in Punta de Choros, Chile
Audio in spanish with english subtitles
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Endangered natural reserves in Chile: Damas y...
Chile is a coastal country, with more than 4,000 km of coastline there is no doubt about that. But it only has 5 marine reserves, which represent around 0.03%, much less than the 10% the country is supposed to preserve according to the summit at Johannesburg in 2002.
Today the marine reserve Isla Chanaral (Chanaral Island) and Isla Damas y Choros (Damas y Choros Island) and also the...
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Ecuador, Yasuní initiative a historic deal
The Government of Ecuador and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed this week a historic deal to leave an estimated 846 million barrels of crude oil untapped beneath Yasuní National Park, a World Biosphere Reserve since 1989, Ecuador is going to receive a trust found from donor countries in compensation for leaving the oil reserves untouched.
The Yasuní National Park is...
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About Barrick, Pascua Lama-Veladero Project
Pascua Lama-Veladero is a mine project operated by the subsidiaries of the Canadian transnational company Barrick Gold, the Compañía Minera Nevada Ltda. (Chile) and Barrick Exploraciones Argentina S.A. They plan to set up a gold, silver and copper mine in a semi-desert region of the Andean Cordillera, on the Chilean-Argentinean border. This project is located on the source of the Huasco river...
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Nigeria Oil Spill
Meanwhile at the other side of the planet in Nigeria, the oil spills are an everyday problem that doesn’t reach international media so often.
The Nigerian governement has estimated around 7000 oil spills between 1970 and 2000, more than 200 spills per year, which amounts to the same quantity as the Exon Valdez each year. Some environmentalists believe the Niger Delta is the most polluted...
July 2010
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Chile: taking care of the environment and our...
According to the Chilean President, and using his own words, “taking care of nature and the environment are priority and ethical matter” and “air, oceans, rivers, lakes, forests and mountains are not an heritage from our ancestors but a loan from our children and the children of our children”.
So what do you make of recent news?
To name 3 in example:
Tatio geysers,...
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Longterm effects of the BP oil spill
A team of researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology from the University of Hawaii created a model that shows the longterm trajectory of the BP oil spill in the Atlantic Ocean.
The animation suggests that the coastal areas near both Carolinas, Georgia and Northern Florida could be affected by the oil spill as early as October 2010, and it is also likely that some...
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Lauca Biosphere Reserve Endangered
In one hand the government has just expanded the Araucarias Biosphere Reserve (situated in south-central Chile in the southern part of the volcanic Andean chain) from 93,833 hectares to 140,000 hectares. This is good news, right?
But in the other hand the same government wants to take 15% off of the 358,312 hectares that conforms the Lauca Biosphere Reserve (situated in the Puna biogeographic...
June 2010
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Chile, transgenic shame!!!
After the earthquake, in the middle of the worldcup, behind everybody’s back, the chilean parliament is trying to approve a law that would allow companies like Monsanto and Syngenta to freely sell their transgenic seeds, moreover giving them the power to ‘call the cops’ if someone is growing ‘natural’ seeds. Thus virtually transforming permaculture and organic farmers...
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Sprouting Part III
This is how our sprouts looked on day 3, 4 and 5.
Day III
Day IV
Day V
They are probably ready to eat now, and that is what we are going to do tonight, with a little bit of soy sauce and mixed with lettuce :D
If you want you can take the husk of before eating them
Another benefit of sprouting: there is no fuel consumption involved at all!
and
it’s absolutely fresh!
if you have...
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Whale hunting: bad signals from Chilean Government...
In a twist that gives a signal that represents a freeway to whale hunters and ending more than 20 years of moratorium status in the southern seas, Chilean government is promoting through Cristian Maquiera, the Chilean Commissioner and President of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) a negotiation prop in Morocco for the 62th IWC meeting, that starts this Monday.
A group of...
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Sprouting Part II
After that first night take the excess water out, leaving them moist but not floating. Check on them twice a day to see if they are moist, if they are not put some water on.
After 24 hours our mung beans look like in the pictures.
One of the benefits of sprouting is eating your vegetables without any chemicals.
More pictures of the complete process @ our flickr Sprouting in our blog here:...
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Sprouting Part I
Hi guys!
It’s winter and today is a gray day here at the south of the planet. But we’ve decided to make it bright and green… we are gonna start sprouting :)
We decided to start first with mung beans, using a method my father told me about, but making some modifications.
We are gonna be posting some benefits of sprouting as well as pictures everyday so you can share this...
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Bonnaroo, a Green Festival
Bonnaroo is a Music and Arts Festival which is annually held at a farm in Manchester, Tennessee. This year the festival will take place between June 11 th and 14 th.
Some artists that are going to be at Bonnaroo this year are: Dave Matthews Band, Kings of Leon Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Conan O’Brien, Tenacious D. Weezer The Flaming Lips performing Dark Side of the Moon featuring Stardeath and...
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HidroAysen demonstration & Government corruption? ...
This picture is from another demonstration protecting the Geyser at El Tatio, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
Enersis CEO, Pablo Yrarrazaval made a donation of US $10 million to the Chilean Government to help with the reconstruction of the country affected by the earthquake. After this Yrarrazabal asked the government to look for an “equilibrium” (according to him, there where to many exigencies...
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WWF Climate Agenda Phone Conference
Last Wednesday, May 26 th the WWF organized a phone conference about the climate agenda. The speakers were Kim Carstensen (leader of WWF Global Climate Initiative, WWF International. Formerly CEO of WWF Denmark) and Tasneem Essop (International Climate Policy Advocate, WWF South Africa)
June is going to be an exiting month in the climate front, during this month the first UNFCCC session after...
May 2010
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Travel Smart pledge by WWF
I care about my impact on this planet, not just at home, but while I’m away. This is why I’m pledging, whilst on vacation, to:
Respect the local environment and leave it just as I found it
Respect local guidelines, recommendations, regulations, and customs.
Take vacations nearer to home and avoid travelling by air where possible. (*)
Say “No” to Bad Souvenirs...
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No rain after earthquake in South-Central Chile
We are a little bit worried
And started to wonder if it has anything to do with the earthquake
Usually by May in Chile’s south-central area is raining like it was winter already
Maybe the pollution originated from the mega earthquake, and all the small earthquakes after the big one, is affecting the precipitation. You know? like in all big contaminated cities
According to...
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Introducing the HidroAysen conflict
A tiny portion of General Carrera Lake, Aysen Region, Chilean Patagonia (click on the image to enlarge)
(Version en Espanol abajo/Spanish version below)
We were thinking about Aysen Region in the Chilean Patagonia. About the incredible impact HidroAysen could generate, and the damage that it is generating now. How people were confronted with their neighbors, and how big untrustworthy companies...
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