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 for animals is sure to benefit Honolulu.” Mollinedo’s wealth of experience is traced to a humble [...]
National movement sprouts first annual Home Farming Day April 12
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 sense for some people to just plant their own vegetables, herbs and/or fruit. In fact, there [...]
San Antonio residents living in toxic Triangle to visit with world-renowned environmentalist
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 assess what’s making many of them sick. Residents around the shuttered base — now the 1,800-acre [...]
Architect envisions border wall as good neighbor
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 the barrier to slow illegal immigration and at the same time transform it in an economically, [...]
A sister’s death spurs a life quest for environmental truth
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 a clean environment in the Texas coastal town of Corpus Christi. Through her position as the [...]
Young Latina blazes trail in environmental activism in Puerto Rico
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 three-years-old and dunked her face into a mangrove swamp. It was this first real contact with [...]