Whale watching tours in Baja are huge business. So are eco-lodges in the Amazon, run by indigenous tribes who now need English lessons so they can improve customer service for tourists. Polar bear safaris are booming, because people will pay through the nose to go and see the bears before they go extinct: Time Limited [...]
On Saturday a friend and I drove through coastal California, from Santa Barbara to San Francisco. Before we left, she began to fret about water. She wanted it filtered, and we couldn’t find any. Finally I commented that since most of the world’s people have to worry about shit and bugs in their water, I [...]
Tara O’Donnell, a graduate from Yale University, is an environmental consultant in Shanghai working for ENSR, a global provider of environmental and energy development services.
A fluent speaker of Chinese, Tara offers Ecospace a brief insiders view on the challenges environmental advocates face; a particularly poignant factor considering the rapid industrialization China is undergoing.
As an environmental [...]
China is growing at a tremendous rate and many within and outside the nation regularly voice concerns over the environmental impacts as the largest population in the world continues to increase.
How will the cultural and language gaps be bridged to create productive and informative discussion around China’s environmental policies and its role in the world’s [...]
Various Canadian cities – including North Vancouver, BC, Edmonton, AB, King’s County, NS, and Toronto, Peterborough, London, Ajax, Mississauga, and Sarnia, ON – are currently looking at banning, more strictly regulating, or studying the impacts of drive-thru restaurants.
As reported by CTV.ca on January 22, “A North Vancouver councillor wants to ban restaurants from building drive-thrus [...]
China has joined the growing list of countries that have now banned free plastic bags. With a population reaching almost 1.5 billion, and a startling number of 3 billion plastic bags used per day, this is big news for the surrounding environment in China. As of June this year plastic bags must be paid [...]
The idea that coal should, in all responsibility, continue to provide for us at cost to our planet doesn’t appeal to me. I am happy that some coal plants are making efforts to lessen their ecological damage, and understand that people have a hard time just walking away from a large capital investment.
However, though coal [...]
“I don’t need this!”, I thought as I took off for work, leaving late yet again. It was 6:50 a.m. as I left home. I’d meant to get moving 20 minutes earlier, so I had some hard pedaling to do. At least once a week, I ride my bike or take public transit on days [...]
When 16-year-old Erica Fernandez heard about BHP Billiton’s plan to build a LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) facility off the coast of her town, she decided to take action. This project would have blown pollution over coastal towns, and included a 36-inch pipeline through low-income neighborhoods.
“The word on the street was there was no hope of [...]
“Ride your bike to fight global warming” is the motto of Clif Bar’s 2-Mile Challenge campaign. Clif Bar founder Gary Erickson explains, “Forty percent of urban trips in the United States are two miles or less, but people use their cars nearly ninety percent of the time for those short jaunts. If we rode bikes [...]
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