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Conserving the Desert – A Landscape of Politics and Beauty
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Imagine the desert—what comes to mind? The desert can easily lead to stereotypes: dry, hot, uninhabitable, barren and full of sand. But for those that have […]
Latino Voices Supported California Coastal Conservation
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Good news for California’s coast: California has now completed its Marine Protected Areas (MPA) network. This is in addition to President Obama’s recent announcement for a […]
Getting more Latinos in the Outdoors
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco This past week, a story via NPR highlighted another benefit of taking to the outdoors. The story referenced a study indicating how participation in nature activities […]
Survey Says: Latinos care about the Environment—what’s the next step?
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco The polling has been clear and consistent over this decade and especially this year: Latinos care about and support a wide range of environmental issues and policies—from […]
Latinos as Consumers and Producers of Organic Food
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco What comes to mind with the mention of “organic” food? How about in combination with the term “Latino”? As organic food continues to be a growing […]
As CO2 Increases, So Too Must Latino Voices
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco In talking about dealing with climate change, there are generally two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation focuses more on reducing or preventing the effects. These are […]
On the Environment and the Drug War
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco The “War on Drugs” and specifically the “Mexican Drug War” are not new themes to readers following news stories. But two recent stories revisit and highlight another […]
On the Colorado River, El Agua Es Vida
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco The recent Colorado River binational agreement between Mexico and the US has been deemed “historic” and “landmark”—adjectives well-deserved if one considers how the story of the […]
Ojo on What Happens with CA Cap-and-Trade
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco One of the recent big environmental news was the successful auctioning of permits under California’s new cap-and-trade system. It is big news because the law and […]
We Expect Holiday Food to be Cheap, But It Has a Price
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco As we all recover from our turkey related indulgences and move on to leftover turkey tortas and other such delights, further holiday feasts await—along with continuing the […]