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Mary Mata August 9, 2012

Thursday August 9, 2012  Census Bureau Releases Results From 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Research (EIN News):  The U.S. Census Bureau released research today from its 2010 […]

Latin America Climate, Energy And Environment News

Mary Mata August 7, 2012

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile While the two companies who own the proposed Hidroaysén dam project in Patagonia, Endesa and Colbún, hope to resume the project before the […]

Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment News

Mary Mata July 31, 2012

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile While non-conventional renewable energy (NCRE) currently accounts for 3 percent of Chile’s electricity, there is a portfolio of new NCRE initiatives that would generate […]

Latin America Climate, Energy And Environment News

Mary Mata July 24, 2012

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile Given the dramatic decrease in costs and increasing efficiency of solar modules, it is becoming increasingly viable to finance and build competitive solar […]

Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment News

Mary Mata July 17, 2012

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile Two months after opening a public tender to study nine alternative transmission line pathways in the Aysén region of Patagonia, the government announced this […]

Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment News

Mary Mata July 10, 2012

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile   The Spanish company, Solarpack, was chosen by the mining company, Collahuasi, to provide 60,000 megawatt hours per year of solar energy to the mining […]

Latin America Climate, Energy And Environment News

Mary Mata July 3, 2012

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile This week, Chile signed agreements with China and South Korea that will help expand the country’s renewable energy portfolio. On Tuesday it was […]

What Do Gay Rights And The Environment Have In Common?

Mary Mata June 26, 2012

By Claire Morgenstern, La Onda Verde I’m having a case of movement envy. This past weekend I marched in NYC’s annual Gay Pride Parade with my friends atGLAAD (Gay & […]

Fires In The Southwest Symptom Of Climate Change

Mary Mata June 22, 2012

By Renee Blake/Beth Blakeman, Public News Service – NM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Frequent fires are popping up around New Mexico from a mix of lightning, dry days, hot winds and bark […]

Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment News

Mary Mata June 19, 2012

By La Onda Verde Chile The electricity company Colbún has denied speculation that is it planning to sell its holdings in the controversial HidroAysén hydroelectric project in Patagonia. While development […]