By Britnae Purdy First Peoples Worldwide The twelfth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) began Monday, May 20 at the UN headquarters in New York City, New York, USA. During the ten-day forum, the…
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista Two pieces of startling, yet intertwined news made headlines this weekend: (1) we’re eleven hundredths away from hitting a new, grim climate change marker; and (2)climate change will cause widespread species extinctions. Scientists had originally…
LatinaLista — Earth Day 2013 should have been more than just a “celebration” of the planet or even a further raising of awareness of the consequences of climate change. Earth Day 2013 should have served as the beginning of…
By Keith Griffin CTLatinoNews.com During the day, Wildaliz Bermudez is an energy policy research analyst for the City of Hartford. But after work she breaks out her green thumb as co-founder and co-chair of the City of Hartford’s Green…
By Dominique Browning Mom’s Clean Air Force My pal Tina Beattie and I talk a lot about what it means to be a Republican who is deeply concerned about climate change. Tina is a founding member of the Moms…
By Gerald Bourguet Cronkite News Service PHOENIX – Border Patrol off-road vehicles used to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers are damaging the landscapes of two ecologically sensitive areas of southern Arizona, environmental groups contend. The Sierra Club and…
by Eduardo Ares Polis The city of Pontevedra in northwest Spain has become a leader in walker-friendly urban policy over the past 15 years. In light of its relative anonymity and population of 83,000, one might find it difficult…
LatinaLista — What does it mean for a child in Nicaragua to grow up in the country versus the city? It’s a simple question with a profound answer that filmmakers Jason Outenreath and Greg Martin Purifoy discovered over the…
LatinaLista — The recent public declarations of support for the DREAM Act and increased talk about immigration reform among Republican politicians has solidified Obama’s promise that he and Congress will address the issue sooner than later. While there are…
By Armando Vazquez Amigos 805.com This summer the city of Oxnard has the opportunity to provide low income non-swimming youth with the opportunity of a lifetime. City officials can be the driving force in making ACCESS to water safety…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — In the small pueblo of Chimaltenango, just 45 minutes outside of Guatemala City, a group of young people from across Guatemala and neighbouring El Salvador gather for a 4-day youth leadership congress, organised…
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista The first time I met Representative Raúl Grijalva was in 2005 at the Tucson Community Earth Day Celebration. The inaugural event was the environmental communities’ answer to the greenwashed, Raytheon-sponsored Earth Day parade. Representative Grijalva,…
By Nayelli Gonzalez LatinaLista (Editor’s note: The following is a condensed version of the full report published by Saatchi & Saatchi The Myth of the Sleeping Giant: Why Latinos are the fastest growing segment the sustainability industry has (n)ever…
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista On November 6, America reelected Barack Obama as the president of the United State of America. With a mixed review of his first term and four more years at the helm, there is much speculation…
LatinaLista — It seems like every other month some product made in China or Mexico is being recalled in the United States because unhealthy levels of lead were found to be in it. The latest was a shipment of…
By Lucian Spataro Latina Lista You don’t often get a chance in life to “do good” by doing what you love. But in 1989, I did get that chance as I had the opportunity to combine my passion for…
LatinaLista — Most Latinos understand there is an undeniable connection between humankind and Mother Earth. While some would attribute that awareness to a heritage steeped in traditional uses of herbal remedies, shamanism and curanderos, others would credit the many…
By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista The Southeast United States is home to more kinds of freshwater animals than anywhere else in the world, but sadly, it has also suffered more than 50 species extinctions in recent times. This sobering fact…
By Christina E. Rodriguez Extra News CHICAGO — Two years ago, the City of Chicago Department of Environment commissioned its fourth community study in the Pilsen neighborhood. Lead by a team which included anthropologists from The Field Museum’s division of…
By Julie Noblitt Green Ninja As Dr. Eugene Cordero took to the stage at the TEDxSanJoseCA conference last month, he showed a slide with a picture of his favorite tee-shirt and posed this question to the audience: How far…
LatinaLista — There’s a growing list of areas where the United States can no longer claim to lead the world — life expectancy, media education, student performance in reading, math and science, traffic safety, quality of healthcare, female corporate board…
