Latin America Green News

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile The Italian energy company Enel—which has a 51% stake in the beleaguered HidroAysén mega dam project through its subsidiary Endesa—will only […]

By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco National Park Week is coming up, aligned with celebrations on Earth Day. During this time, the public can attend National Parks for free. Do you have […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Thousands of dead shrimp and small fish have emerged from a duct of the Bocamina II plant, an Endesa-owned thermoelectric power generation […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile HidroAysén, the company intending to build a 2,750 megawatt dam project on two rivers in Patagonia, announced that it would not present […]

By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Immigration is THE topic for most Latino communities right now and it has the right political buzz in the wake of the 2012 elections. As part of […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile The Chilean Solar Energy Research Center—a newly formed organization comprising researchers from several of the country’s universities—will begin a multidisciplinary study of […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Endesa and Colbún, the companies behind the controversial mega-dam project HidroAysén, have announced that the Committee of Ministers has until the end of […]

By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco I recently had the opportunity to participate in a Google Hangout on Diversity in the Outdoors, hosted by the Sierra Club. A good summary of it […]

By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Earlier this year the Super Bowl commercial “God Made a Farmer” attracted keen attention by various Latino blogs and advocacy groups for overlooking the fact that […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile Persistent drought in Chile’s central region has caused water levels to drop in six major reservoirs used for power generation. According to the […]