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Alex Diaz

About Alex Diaz

Alex Diaz is news editor and sustainability specialist at Caribbean Business newspaper in Puerto Rico and writes about global green in his Google+ page.
Can Africa do what others have failed and develop their economies sustainable? Photo by Africa Renewal.

Africa: The last frontier?

21 September, 2012

These past days about 40 African countries have been huddling with the UN to embark on a post-Rio+20 plan for the sustainable development of the continent and its billion people, a plan they hope will be received as a model … Continue reading

Global warming pollution

2C + 565 + 2,795 is only part of the story

19 August, 2012

I’ve been asked by several folks to comment on the recent Bill McKibben feature column in Rolling Stone magazine that has caused quite a stir. Bill, as we know, single-handedly willed 350.org into becoming one of the most influential climate-change … Continue reading

Photo by Jennifer Köhler.

Focus on your country’s Gross National Happiness

21 May, 2012

What are we in this for, anyway? This thing we call life and living. Is it really to earn enough money to buy lots of stuff, thinking that will bring happiness? The car. The house. You know, the stuff. Well, … Continue reading

RIO+20

Are the Rio+20 goals too green-as-usual?

20 February, 2012

Great piece by the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) Switchboard blog on efforts afoot in Latin America to step up on green in anticipation of Rio+20, which will be held here in the region this June. The goals and standards … Continue reading

obama-keystone-protest

Obama may still buckle on Keystone

30 January, 2012

So Keystone has become a high-stakes political chess game following the president’s decision to kill the project. This Talking Points Memo article says Republicans have no expectations of getting Obama to sign infrastructure legislation including a Keystone rider, but they’ll … Continue reading

Photo by Flickr user transplanted mountaineer.

Obama Keystone statement bodes ill for future of climate

19 January, 2012

If President Obama’s thoroughly embarrassing stumbling-block posture at Durban left any doubt about the softness of his conviction on climate change, the Keystone decision has just nailed the notion. Yes, it’s great that the pipeline is dead, and everyone from … Continue reading

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