By Priscilla Cabral-Perez Hawaii Hispanic News HONOLULU, Hawaii — When Mayor Peter Carlisle recently introduced the new Honolulu Zoo Director Manuel Mollinedo, he described him as someone whose “wealth of zoo and park managerial experience and his clear love…
Environment
National movement sprouts first annual Home Farming Day April 12
Apr 12, 2011, 3:06 AM 0
LatinaLista — Home gardens used to be looked upon as nice hobbies for people who wanted to spend quality time with nature. Nowadays, home gardens have gotten to be serious business. With the “growing” costs of food, it makes…
Environment, Government, Health, Social Justice, Southwest
San Antonio residents living in toxic Triangle to visit with world-renowned environmentalist
Apr 6, 2011, 12:50 AM 0
By Tony Cantú La Prensa de San Antonio — World-renowned environmental activist Wilma Subra — often compared to Erin Brokovich — is scheduled next month to meet with residents living around the former Kelly Air Force Base to help…
Art, Environment, Immigration, Politics, Social Justice, West
Architect envisions border wall as good neighbor
Apr 4, 2011, 12:58 AM 0
By Kathleen Maclay UC BERKELEY La Prensa San Diego SAN DIEGO — The U.S.-Mexico border wall may be here to stay, but a University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of architecture has some provocative ideas about how to redesign…
American Dreams, Environment, Health, Politics, Social Justice, Women
A sister’s death spurs a life quest for environmental truth
Feb 25, 2011, 8:56 PM 0
By Angela Villanueva LatinaLista Corpus Christi native, Suzie Canales, encounters federal bureaucracy, frustration and roadblocks in finding solutions to help her local neighborhoods impacted by environmental abuses. For more than 10 years, Suzie Canales, 51, has been fighting for…
Environment, Global Views, Social Justice, Women
Young Latina blazes trail in environmental activism in Puerto Rico
Feb 10, 2011, 9:01 PM 0
By Natalia A. Bonilla-Berrios LatinaLista A young environmentalist leads the way in Puerto Rico to show how nature and humanity depend on one another for survival. Ana Elisa Pérez Quintero’s love affair with nature began when she was only…
Environment, Global Views, Linking Latinas
Brazil: Nature’s revenge brings out the best in Brazilians
Jan 10, 2011, 8:29 PM 0
By Edy Bestle LatinaLista.net SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — People have been hearing and seeing things about the floods in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. This natural accident or Nature´s revenge caught us all by surprise. Although heavy rains…
Education, Environment, Nonprofit
Spotlight Non-profit: Teaching a new generation the art of farming
Dec 31, 2010, 1:58 PM 0
LatinaLista — Rising food prices and rampant childhood obesity are two factors fueling a national surge in local communities exploring the idea of establishing community gardens. Yet for one group, the idea digs much deeper. La Semilla Food Center‘s…
Environment, Health, Immigration, Women
Migrant women farmworkers toil in nation’s “crying fields” to harvest food for the American people
Nov 18, 2010, 3:27 PM 0
LatinaLista — When it’s said that undocumented immigrants do the jobs most Americans don’t want, there is one industry that is the poster child for that statement — the food industry. It is reported that six in ten of the…
Environment, General, Nonprofit
Spotlight Non-profit: Cleaning the world a pair of hands at a time
Oct 15, 2010, 2:03 PM 0
LatinaLista — At the height of the swine flu scare, people didn’t need to be told twice to wash their hands. Bottles of hand sanitizing lotion flew off store shelves. Not anymore. The same urgency to have clean hands…
Environment, Immigration, Online, Politics
New site highlights impact of U.S.-Mexico border wall
Oct 7, 2010, 3:34 PM 0
LatinaLista — Back in the days when construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall was at its height (pun intended) — seizing private and ancestral property, bulldozing its way through some selected neighborhoods and enraging locals on both sides of…
Environment, Fitness, General, Global Views, Linking Latinas
Bolivia: Feet and pedal power fuel Pedestrian Day
Sep 7, 2010, 8:41 AM 0
By Angie Washington LatinaLista COCHAMBA, BOLIVIA — Imagine a smog-free world. The sky becomes bluer. The grass becomes greener. The air is finally breathable once again. That is the goal of the annual Pedestrian Day in Cochabamba, Bolivia. On…
Environment, General
New housing research shows Latinos the most comfortable in diverse neighborhoods
Aug 2, 2010, 12:23 PM 0
LatinaLista — The quintessential American Dream is owning a home. Yet, there’s a second part to that dream that nobody really talks about — the neighborhood. Everybody wants to live in a “good neighborhood” but thanks to a new…
Business, Economy, Environment, Health, Immigration, Palabra Final
United Farm Workers launch campaign to get unemployed Americans to fill farm job vacancies
Jun 24, 2010, 5:18 PM 1
LatinaLista — The argument that undocumented immigrants do the work most Americans don’t want to do doesn’t apply to the Gulf Oil spill — yet. The Pensacola office of Workforce EscaRosa, an unemployment agency that serves the Florida region…
Environment, Online
Latino families can cut down on obesity rates with home gardens
Jun 23, 2010, 10:45 PM 0
LatinaLista — Latinos have been identified as the largest group, ethnic or otherwise, who suffer from the highest rates of obesity. Part of that problem is due to eating too many unhealthy foods. Ideally, we should all be eating…
Environment, Human Rights, Palabra Final, Social Justice
New report highlights continued mistreatment of migrant farm labor
Jun 16, 2010, 5:55 PM 1
LatinaLista — As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gets ready to step up their efforts targeting employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers, according to a plan that was recently leaked to the Texas Tribune and titled “Strategic Priorities for…
Environment, Global Views, Government, Linking Latinas
Guatemala: Suffering and loss from Guatemala’s natural catastrophes linger on
Jun 7, 2010, 6:47 AM 0
By Mayra Beltran de Daetz GUATEMALA CITY — Everything began Wednesday, May 26, 2010, about three in the afternoon. That’s when many in Guatemala City first felt a frightening tremor. This tremor wasn’t the same which we customarily feel….
Environment, Immigration, Palabra Final
Special Report: Amid Oil Spill Crisis, U.S. Authorities Search for Undocumented Immigrant Cleanup Workers
Jun 4, 2010, 4:21 PM 5
LatinaLista — At a time when the worst environmental crisis has hit the United States, it seems federal authorities were going to ensure that undocumented immigrants were not going to profit from it in any way, such as, risking…
Business, Environment, Guest Voz
USA: BP oil crisis highlights fragile relationship with nature, as well as, with corporate executives and politicians
Jun 2, 2010, 9:57 AM 0
By Ivan G. Marte Forty-five days and counting with no solution in sight, not to mention a government administration grappling to take control of the situation. Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s governor, up in arms, the news media doing what they…
Environment, Health, Linking Latinas
USA: For World No Tobacco Day, Stop Exposing Others to Dangerous Smoke
May 25, 2010, 1:23 PM 0
By Amelie Ramirez, Dr. PH U.S.A. — May 31 is World No Tobacco Day. It’s a perfect opportunity to reflect on the effects of smoking and the opportunities to quit smoking, especially among Latinos. For every one person that…
Environment, General, Immigration, Social Justice
Yale social psychologist says AZ immigration law can’t help but lead to racial profiling
May 20, 2010, 4:38 PM 0
LatinaLista — When it comes to the new Arizona immigration law, everybody has an opinion. The latest organization to weigh in on the new law is the American Psychological Association (APA). The APA wanted to know if such could…
Children, Environment, Global Views, Linking Latinas, Parenting
Mexico: What about our kids?
May 6, 2010, 5:39 PM 0
By Martha Ramos LatinaLista MEXICO CITY — A couple of days ago, I was talking with a friend about old times. When we were kids, we played on the streets in Chihuahua. Last week, he was at a neighbor’s…
Children, Environment, General, Health, Online, Parenting, Youth
Latino families need to be vigilant against lead poisoning
Apr 20, 2010, 4:49 PM 0
LatinaLista — Who worries about lead poisoning these days? Evidently not many people. Otherwise, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) wouldn’t have joined forces with the Ad Council and…
Business, Environment, Health
When it comes to “going green” Latinos get the message loud and clear
Apr 15, 2010, 11:33 AM 0
LatinaLista — A new survey reveals that Latinos have embraced the concept of “going green.” Of all the ethnic groups, Latinos rank the highest when it comes to being in tune to the planet, according to the survey Eco…
Economy, Environment, General, Global Views, Human Rights
Dump Day campaign raises money to feed people who live at Honduras dump
Apr 14, 2010, 9:24 AM 1
LatinaLista — It wasn’t that long ago that Honduras dominated world headlines due to the country’s political turmoil, and remains in the spotlight because of the increase in violence and murders of journalists. Yet there is another story in…
