The goal is same—but not the starting point

May 2001

Mexico (Free Read)

Message in Fox’s tax plan: no more free water

In what would be a major shift in water-resource policy, Mexico’s new government is hoping to raise $4.8 billion annually in taxes on industry and ......

Colombia

Colombia steps up effort to clear Magdalena

When author Gabriel García Márquez traveled Colombia’s Magdalena River by steamboat as a child in the 1940s, he gazed in wonder at “alligators lying in ......

Brazil

Brazil may not get financing for new reactor

Plans for a third reactor at the Angra nuclear-power complex near Rio de Janeiro have hit a serious snag: Germany is reconsidering crucial financial support ......

Chile

Water, mining at issue in prized Lauca park

Northern Chile’s Lauca National Park, in the Atacama desert near the Bolivian border, would rank near the top of any list of this country’s important ......

Colombia

War widows propel new recycling program

Death and destruction have been as common in Urabá as the leafy banana plantations that blanket the region. Thousands of people have died here over ......

Around the Region

Minister resigns with rules on Galápagos still pending

Ecuadorians this month saw a new environment minister take office—María de Lourdes Luque, an academic with a social sciences and environmental-management background who has worked ......

Centerpiece

The goal is same—but not the starting point

At Gethal Amazonas, a traditional veneer and plywood producer, hardnosed lumberjacks are beginning to sound like conservationists. Meanwhile, at Precious Woods Amazon, a company founded ......

Q&A

Official wants to boost Mexico City water supply–fast

Leopoldo Rodarte became director of the Water Commission of Mexico City’s Federal District in January 1998. Since then, he has reduced leakage rates from 37% ......

Centerpiece

The goal is same—but not the starting point

Brazil

At Gethal Amazonas, a traditional veneer and plywood producer, hardnosed lumberjacks are beginning to sound like conservationists. Meanwhile, at Precious Woods Amazon, a company founded with sustainable forestry rather than profits in mind, executives now extol the bottom line. Destructive logging practices certainly still abound in the Amazon. And overcutting of forests is by no means the region’s only major threat. (See “Soybeans make inroads in Amazon region”—EcoAméricas, Feb. ’00.) But Gethal and Precious Woods Amazon reflect incipient efforts at different ends of the timber industry to strike a new balance. On one end, profit-minded Gethal began revamping its Amazon operations to hew to strict environmental guidelines. On the other, conservation-conscious Precious Woods Amazon carried out an overhaul of its own, this... [Log in to read more]

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May 2001

Mexico (Free Read)

Message in Fox’s tax plan: no more free water

In what would be a major shift in water-resource policy, Mexico’s new government is hoping to raise $4.8 billion annually in taxes on industry and ......

Colombia

Colombia steps up effort to clear Magdalena

When author Gabriel García Márquez traveled Colombia’s Magdalena River by steamboat as a child in the 1940s, he gazed in wonder at “alligators lying in ......

Brazil

Brazil may not get financing for new reactor

Plans for a third reactor at the Angra nuclear-power complex near Rio de Janeiro have hit a serious snag: Germany is reconsidering crucial financial support ......

Chile

Water, mining at issue in prized Lauca park

Northern Chile’s Lauca National Park, in the Atacama desert near the Bolivian border, would rank near the top of any list of this country’s important ......

Colombia

War widows propel new recycling program

Death and destruction have been as common in Urabá as the leafy banana plantations that blanket the region. Thousands of people have died here over ......

Around the Region

Minister resigns with rules on Galápagos still pending

Ecuadorians this month saw a new environment minister take office—María de Lourdes Luque, an academic with a social sciences and environmental-management background who has worked ......

Centerpiece

The goal is same—but not the starting point

At Gethal Amazonas, a traditional veneer and plywood producer, hardnosed lumberjacks are beginning to sound like conservationists. Meanwhile, at Precious Woods Amazon, a company founded ......

Q&A

Official wants to boost Mexico City water supply–fast

Leopoldo Rodarte became director of the Water Commission of Mexico City’s Federal District in January 1998. Since then, he has reduced leakage rates from 37% ......