Tag: green

A Floating Lodge in the Amazon Preserves Nature While Providing for the Locals

The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve is approximately 600 km off of the Amazonas state ...

Rio Celebrates Car-Free Day Promoting Bike Riding

A number of actions were staged in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in observance of ...

Alas, in Brazil, the Greener Times Seem to Be in the Past

Contradiction festers in Rio de Janeiro as international fervor surrounding June’s lackluster Rio +20 ...

Boiling point: A Survey of Hemispheric Water Policy

From the Texas Oil Boom to the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, petroleum was undoubtedly the ...

Stripped of Controversy to Appease US and EU Rio +20 Final Text Is Rich in Generalities

The preliminary draft of the final document of the Rio+20 United Nations Sustainable Development ...

Brazilians Discover Green Industry and Take Few First Steps on the Road to Sustainable Goods

The movement is still rather quiet. Maybe the most switched off consumers have not ...

World Watches While Brazil Balances Booming Economy and Protecting Biodiversity

Expect to hear plenty about Dilma Rousseff in 2011. The former student militant made ...

In Brazil Construction Sector Has Still Long Way to Become Green Friendly

From a general perspective, Brazil’s commitment to environmental sustainability is widely considered commendable compared ...

Brazilian Bio Soluções’s Line of Excrement-Run Generators Is a Hit

Brazil has a new line of generators, engines and motorized pumps that, apart from ...

Gol Brazilian Airline Goes Green in Treating Its Waste

Brazilian airline Gol has developed its own program for managing aircraft maintenance waste at ...

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