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Posts Tagged ‘Mexico City’
Pollution, Feb 1st, 2012,
Rubbish is piling up in Mexico’s capital after the city’s largest waste dump, Bordo Poniente, was closed after the landfill was, for lack of a better word, filled. The landfill, in fact, was meant to close back in 2005, but the city managed to delay closure by 6 years. Now garbage is accumulating in illegal dumps in Mexico City, on street corners and even in front of monuments. The fact that Mexico lags behind in waste reducing measures, such as recycling programs, compounds the problem in the DF. From the Guardian: The demise of the Bordo Poniente exposed how acutely…
Tags: border, Bordo Poniente, garbage, Mexico City, US, waste
Green living, Apr 26th, 2010,
Mexico City, host of the climate summit event later this year, has started an awesome, new bicycle program this spring. At the launch of Ecobici, the city installed 1,100 bikes at 85 stations around the city center. Within the first 3 months, at least 4,000 people have used the program and a total of 50,000 trips have been taken throughout the city thus far. To make things even better, there have been no accidents and no thefts. The city hopes 24,000 will register within the first year. Part of Mexico City’s 15-year Plan Verde, the Ecobici system is pretty simple:…
Tags: bicycle program, bike rentals, Ecobici, environment, Mexico City, Plan Verde
Climate Change, Mar 22nd, 2010,
Known as a city of smog, the Mexican capital of Mexico City has significantly cleaned up its act – with a little help from Mother Nature. From an article in the Independent: “The pollution problem is still there, but it is a fact that we have been fighting pollution for more than 20 years and the improvement is undeniable,” said Gustavo Alanis, with the NGO Mexican Center for Environmental Law. Favorable weather along with developments in transportation infrastructure, such as increasing bicycle traffic and revamping the city’s bus system, have helped improve air quality in the Mexican megacity. Another huge…
Tags: air quality, Britain, EU, Independent, Mexico City, nitrogen oxides, Pollution, UK
Climate Change, Nature, Politics, Pollution, Dec 30th, 2009,
Pollution is a bad thing. We all know this. It endangers animals and ecosystems, contaminates water supplies, and (worst of all) it contributes to Global Warming. A big factor of air pollution is all the emissions from cars, factories and so forth. It’s a problem that can be found across the globe, in small towns and large cities. Unfortunately, there are some places where the pollution levels have gotten ridiculously out of hand and reversing the effects would take a miracle. Here is a list of the top 5 most polluted places in the world: 5. Mexico City, Mexico Mexico…
Tags: chernobyl, Climate change, coal, contamination, disease, Earth, emissions, environment, fossil fuels, fumes, global warming, greenhouse gas, Linfen, Mexico City, most polluted cities in the world, Norilsk, nuclear disaster, Pernik, Pollution, top 5 polluted cities
Science & Technology, Nov 14th, 2009,
Harvard has awarded the 2009 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership to the Mexico City transport authority. This award, give by the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is give out every 2 years to initiatives undertaken to “ enhance environmental quality through the use of novel and creative approaches.” The Mexico City Metrobus system uses vehicles clean fuel and was a project collaborated upon by several private and government agencies. The program also encourages citizens to take public transportation, instead of using the vehicles everyday. Over-all, Mexico City is expected to fund about $1 billion towards environmentally projects and…
Tags: 2009 Roy Family award, Harvard award, Metrobus, Mexico City
