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Deja El Plastico: Latino Efforts in Banning Plastic Bags
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Currently in California, campaigns and debates over “ban the bag” have risen in various cities. Most recently there was an effort at the state level that […]
Entre los Gigantes: On Latino Experiences among the Redwoods and Sequoias
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco There is a certain fortune in being able to live in California and having the opportunity to visit los arboles grandes, los gigantes—the redwoods and sequoias. […]
Piensale al pescado: What fish is on your plate?
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco As Latinos we eat all kind and type of fish—at least as reflected how I grew up and based on the menus of any typical Mexican […]
Where does your agua come from?
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco If you missed it, recently there was a news story from ProPublica about Mexico drilling into a deep aquifer for drinking water. The catch, as the […]
Latino Children Planting the Future
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco A cool San Francisco Bay morning is warming up on a marshy shore of the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline, part of the East Bay Regional […]
Makes Sense To Keep The Secretary of Interior A Latino
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Last week, Ken Salazar announced he would be stepping down as Secretary of the Department of Interior. With Hilda Solis at the Department of Labor also […]
Ojo on Ocean Acidification
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Do you recall acid rain? How about the hole in the ozone layer? There may several among us who may not remember the problem of acid […]
Eat Healthy but Cuidado with Superfoods
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Are you familiar with superfoods? A story in The Guardian this week highlighted an issue that has been popping up in recent years: our “superfoods” are the […]
Latinos Getting Fracked?
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco 2012 closed with an interesting note: As reported in this article from Reuters, the term “fracking” was more popular than “climate change” in US online searches. […]
As the Planet Warms, Continuing a Call for a “Climate Grito”
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco The news reported the same idea from slightly different angles, but it was clear—2012 was a hot year. The US put forth the warmest year on […]