San Miguel de Allende hosted a theoretical and practical workshop on the development of green infrastructure and rain gardens as an example of a nature-based solution. The event was convened by several local and national...
News - Climate Change
11/29/2018
ROME - Did you know bamboo can help combat climate change? Fast growing and flexible, bamboo plants and products can store more carbon than certain types of tree. Bamboo is also used around the world as a source of...
Once the degraded land has made the first timid steps toward recuperation, it is planted with agave, one of the few plants that will flourish in such barren soil — and the plant will begin to replenish its fertility. Image courtesy of Alejandro Vasconcelos.
08/11/2021
- Land degradation is impacting farmlands worldwide, affecting almost 40% of the world’s population. Reversing that process and restoring these croplands and pastures to full productivity is a huge challenge facing...
08/18/2021
Buying new clothes can be fun, but it can also be costly—to both your wallet and the environment. The fashion industry accounts for 10% of the carbon emissions in the world, making it a major offender in the...
07/08/2021
As you read this, there are about 150 goats grazing their way through the grass and woodland areas surrounding Fitch Mountain, a local open...
07/03/2021
[Translation] We cannot live without eating. Food and everything that surrounds it is at the basis of everyone's life. That is why controlling this market is a fundamental objective of transnational corporations. Today,...
05/21/2021
MEXICO CITY, The situation of the energy transition in Central America and the Caribbean was the main issue debated this Friday 21st in the sessions at the XXX La Jolla Energy Conference, which is attended virtually by...
04/28/2021
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 28 2021 (IPS) - A new global report on forests says that while the COVID-19 pandemic is the latest threat to achieving ambitious forest protection goals, it has brought the importance of forests to...
12/22/2020
NEW YORK - The year 2020 is ending with the world caught up in an unprecedented human and economic crisis. The pandemic has contaminated 75 million people and killed 1.7 million. With the lockdowns, the global economy has...
11/18/2020
This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can find a record of companies and...
10/02/2020
Small actions ... big changes …
They say that hope is a voluntary construction to start changing the world. And while many are in a "waiting" situation, there are others who have gone to work. They...
10/20/2020
The world cannot take it anymore, that is, societies and nature. The evidence is there with the confluence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ecological crisis on local, regional, national and global scales, the latent threat...
01/20/2020
“Unsustainable land use and greenhouse gas emissions are delivering a one-two punch to natural ecosystems that are key to the fight against global climate change.
And without...
05/07/2020
Nearly 40 mayors representing more than 700 million people in cities across the globe are calling for a transformative recovery from the Covid-19 crisis that fundamentally alters global economic and energy systems,...
04/23/2020
UNITED NATIONS, The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), described as an integral part of its highly-...
04/10/2020
Are glyphosate and COVID-19 connected? Glyphosate, one of the most toxic chemicals in the world, may be the key to why some people get severely ill from COVID-19.
The pandemic that we have long been told...
03/31/2020
I attended one of three major biodiversity planning meetings this February, originally scheduled for China, but relocated to Rome. The day I arrived, there were three cases of the coronavirus COVID-19 in northern Italy....
03/03/2020
A new federal bill, introduced by Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), would force the plastic industry...
02/02/2020
Right across from Atholton High School in Columbia, Maryland, sits a garden roughly a third of an acre with rows of vegetable beds and a newly added pond to...
02/01/2020
Positive news stories about the state of our environment are few and far between. More common are stories that we’re almost at the point of irreparable damage, that if we don’t act now, it will be too late. While this may...
01/29/2020
ASHEVILLE — The city has become the first community in North Carolina to declare a "climate emergency," setting rigorous goals on warming greenhouse gases and renewable energy. The Jan. 28 emergency declaration comes...
01/21/2020
In 1962, Rachael Carson warned us, with the publication of Silent Spring, that the indiscriminate use of pesticides was disrupting critical ecosystems and causing severe damage to human health.
Her message led to a...
09/25/2019
This week's UN Climate Action Summit will be tricky for agribusiness CEOs. With forest fires raging in the Amazon, a damning new report about...
01/01/2020
“They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn.”
– Bob Dylan, “Blood on the Tracks,” 1975
Beyond the media smog, the 24/7 fixation on the Trump cesspool and the endless distractions of the...
12/10/2019
MEXICO CITY [translation] - Foreigners who participated in the # ToxiTourMéxico criticized the worrysome situation they witnessed in regard to environmental pollution resulting from from the industries established as part...
12/12/2019
Environmentalists and observers have been barred from UN climate talks in Madrid after a protest inside the conference.
Around 200 climate campaigners were ejected after staging a sit in, preventing access to one...
11/12/2019
On November 29th Fridays for Future again will join the Global Call to Act before the Climate Crisis. In San Miguel we will join the movement going to our Natural Park with our signs asking for the protection and care of...
10/24/2019
The French government has passed a law that could revolutionize barbecues, picnics, and birthdays. Starting in 2020, most plastic cups, plates and cutlery will be totally banned.
Introduced at the end of August (...
10/16/2019
San Miguel de Allende [translation] - On Wednesday, a group of professionals presented an alternative project that had been presented to the municipal government for their consideration on respecting the trees,...
10/15/2019
Immediately following the release of the activists detained for defending the trees on Avenida Guadalupe and the removal of the trees, Arnoldo Cuéllar interviewed one of the detainees—Maribel Arciniega, of Salvemos 41...
10/15/2019
San Miguel De Allende, Gto. [translation] -- The municipal police of San Miguel de Allende arrested 12 activists (10 Mexicans and two foreigners) who had maintained a vigil on Guadalupe Avenue since September 21...
10/08/2019
INCHEON, South Korea, - Good news: the graph depicting climate investments has been steadily increasing. Climbing from the 2012 figure of $360 billion in climate investments across the world to close to $600 billion...
10/10/2019
Organic farming is a win-win for people, animals and the planet. But it’s so much more than a set of practices used to grow...
10/07/2019
Activists and defenders of the trees on Guadalupe Avenue have reached the goal of 13 Thousand Signatures to prevent the trees from being transplanted. Lawyers, environmentalists, Architects and Senator Jesusa Rodriguez...
10/05/2019
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said that climate change is “the battle of my life.” He is not the only one.
Climate change is a battle we are all fighting. More than ever, cities are where the battle...
09/29/2019
"There is a magical machine that absorbs carbon from the air, costs very little and builds itself. It's called a tree."
On Friday, September 20 members of the "Climate Action group of SMA" march to Parque...
09/24/2019
Speaking at the United Nations climate summit, the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a speech criticizing world leaders for their inaction on protecting the environment.
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09/19/2019
Film by Swedish activist and Guardian journalist George Monbiot says nature must be used to repair broken climate
The protection and restoration of living ecosystems such as forests, mangroves and...
09/23/2019
On Friday, September 20, an estimated 400 to 500 people in San Miguel de Allende joined millions of people around the globe to demand "an end to the age of fossil fuels." The global climate strikes in more than 150...
09/23/2019
On Saturday, September 21, the removal of 41 trees was scheduled to begin on Avenida Guadalupe in front of the San Juan de Dios market. The trees, which line the center of the street, are more than 20 years old. However...
08/18/2019
Climate activist Greta Thunberg will cross the Atlantic on a zero-emissions sailboat on her way to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit on September 23.
Setting off mid-August from an undisclosed location in the...
08/30/2019
It’s called “wishcycling,” and pretty much all of us do it.
If you’re like me, you’ve looked at a paper coffee cup or an empty tube of toothpaste and thought, “Is this recyclable?” before tossing...
09/02/2019
Fairlee, Vermont — Americans are more concerned about climate change than ever. An average of national polls conducted by...
08/02/2019
Last year California set a goal to become carbon-neutral by 2045. Some called it unrealistic, while we call it mission-critical. But how do we get there? As we search for ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent...
07/23/2019
Do you prefer to hear good news or bad news first? I will begin by giving you the (unsurprisingly) bad news. Today’s world is an unequal place. Standards of living vary massively both between and within countries.
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05/06/2019
A hard-hitting report into the impact of humans on nature shows that nearly one million species risk becoming extinct within decades, while current efforts to conserve the earth’s resources will likely fail without...
04/22/2019
Forty-nine years ago today, nearly 20 million people in cities across the U.S. poured into the streets to demand that Congress put the issue of environmental protection on the national political agenda.
...
04/17/2019
"They're a brand new [type of] pollution, but there's so much of it and it's increasing so fast that it's something we really need to start learning about."
Plastic pollution is now the greatest global...
03/20/2019
At age 22, on an expedition in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Kristal Ambrose witnessed a horror she couldn’t unsee: a vast patch of garbage, made up mostly of plastics.
She was onboard the ship of the 5 Gyres...
04/19/2019
“One of our most important solutions to the global challenge posed by climate change lies right under our feet.” That’s according to Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, a soil biochemist at the University of Merced, and she’s...