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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Casa Made of Dammed Displaced by development, squatters await justice in Argentina	Gregory Dicum, Morgan Stetler	29 May 2008	Grist Feature
By Gregory Dicum and Morgan Stetler 29 May 2008 Next to a busy train station in Buenos Aires, not far from the chic restaurants and condos getting all the attention these days, lies another world. Behind a gate is a long metal shed, once used to store trains. This is La Casa del Afectado Social y Ambiental -- literally, "the house of the enviro-socially affected." Here, amidst the bustle of traffic and c ...
Topics: Argentina, dams, energy, grassroots activism, litigation, World Bank (all these topics)

Biofuels: good for agrochemical/GMO biz GMO giant Monsanto wows Wall Street, consolidates its grip on South America	Tom Philpott	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
While debate rages on Gristmill and elsewhere about whether biofuels are worth a damn ecologically, investors in agribusiness firms are quietly counting their cash.As corn and soy prices approach all-time highs, driven up by government biofuel mandates, farmers are scrambling to plant as much as they can -- and lashing the earth with chemicals to maximize yields. At a Wall Street meeting on Tuesday, genetically modified seed/herbicide giant Monsanto promised investors ...
Topics: agriculture, Argentina, Big Ag, biofuels, Brazil, business, energy, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

Well Oil Be Damned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pursues energy treaties in South America		08 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Well Oil Be Damned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pursues energy treaties in South America Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is on a four-nation swing through South America this week, using his country's oil riches to win friends and influence people. Yesterday, Chavez signed an "energy security treaty" with Nestor Kirchner, the president of Argentina; he will continue o ...
Topics: Argentina, energy, international politics, natural gas, news, Venezuela (all these topics)

Fencing Match Mexico may file complaint over U.S. border fence plans		01 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Fencing Match Mexico may file complaint over U.S. border fence plans Mexican environmental officials are the latest to get peeved over the U.S. government's plan to build a 700-mile fence along the countries' shared border. The barrier, intended to stem illegal immigration, would "place at risk the various ecosystems that we share," says Environment Minister Juan Rafael Elvira -- incl ...
Topics: Argentina, Mexico, news, politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Bio for All A biodiesel entrepreneur in Argentina spreads seeds of wisdom	Kelly Hearn	14 Dec 2006	Main Dish
Even by Argentine standards, Ricardo Carlstein can talk a blue streak. Ricardo Carlstein. I met with the founder of Biofuels SA, an Argentina-based maker of small-scale biodiesel plants, in the posh environs of Buenos Aires. Carlstein sat at his desk and explained how any person can be a fuel plant by using his invention, a technology protocol he calls "high-temperature pressurized" (si ...
Topics: Argentina, biofuels, business, energy (all these topics)

Don't Cry to Them, Argentina Is Monsanto playing fast and loose with Roundup Ready Soybeans in Argentina?	Kelly Hearn	22 Sep 2006	Main Dish
Crying not for Argentina but for lost patent fees, Monsanto's legal hacks are in European courts suing to block millions of tons of Argentine soybean meal from docking on the continent. Bean there, sprayed that. Photo: iStockphoto Monsanto says that much of the meal crossing the Atlantic to feed Europe's cows and pigs contains traces of its genetically modified Rou ...
Topics: Argentina, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Pascua Tense A proposed gold mine in Chile and Argentina has emails flying	Kelly Hearn	21 Jun 2006	Main Dish
Last week, Chile's government green-lighted a controversial mining project known as Pascua-Lama. If the name rings a bell, odds are a chain email has found its way to your inbox, an appeal to "friends who care about our earth." Activists hoped Chile's new president, Michelle Bachelet, would stop the mine. Photo: Queen/ WireImage.com. The far-reaching cyber-alert describes a messy inter ...
Topics: Argentina, Chile, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Let My People Flow Water privatization falling out of favor		28 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Let My People Flow Water privatization falling out of favor The privatization of water systems took off globally in the '80s and '90s; now it seems to be going the way of ankle zippers and acid-washed denim. At last week's World Water Forum, delegates voted to issue a decree supporting government responsibility for providing safe drinking water. As if on cue, Argentina last week announced it was severing i ...
Topics: Argentina, news, United Nations, water conflicts (all these topics)

Buenos Bios How South American biofuels are gaining steam, and why that freaks the U.S. out	Kelly Hearn	15 Dec 2005	Main Dish
In his drab office in the fashion-obsessed chaos of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, Edmundo Defferrari cuts a farmhand's figure in a corporate man's world. Soy is growing up down south. Photo: USDA/Keith Weller. The 28-year-old industrial engineer, in cap, jeans, and scruffy beard, taps through a PowerPoint presentation choked with graphs, statistics, and cartoon renderings of ...
Topics: Argentina, Brazil, South America, water pollution (all these topics)

Everyone Knows It's Windy Argentine town may be model for producing hydrogen from wind		17 May 2005	Daily Grist
Everyone Knows It's Windy Argentine town may be model for producing hydrogen from wind The people of Pico Truncado in southern Argentina know the power of the wind that whips through their open land; it rips flags to shreds, dumps dust on clothing, and musses hair. But it also provides more than half of the town's electricity and could bolster its economic future. Pico Truncado already has four working windm ...
Topics: Argentina, energy, hydrogen, news, wind power (all these topics)

Calf-kaesque Melting of South American Glaciers Leads to Sea-Level Rise		17 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Calf-kaesque Melting of South American Glaciers Leads to Sea-Level Rise Glaciers in the Patagonia region of southern Argentina and Chile are melting so fast that they are leading to a tiny but notable rise in sea level, U.S. scientists report in the latest issue of the journal Science. The glaciers are melting twice as quickly as they were in 1975, an increase that the researchers attribute to global warming. Between 199 ...
Topics: Argentina, Chile, climate, oceans (all these topics)

Pampas and Circumstances		09 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Pampas and Circumstances The massive economic crisis in Argentina has had an unexpected silver lining for the environment: It has led to a surge in the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in cars, a cleaner fuel than either diesel or gasoline. Argentina is home to the third-largest natural-gas reserves in Latin America and the world's largest fleet of natural-gas cars, at about 800,000, or 15 percent of pe ...
Topics: Argentina, energy, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Pampas and Circumstances		17 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Pampas and Circumstances More than 1,500 farmers now plant 7 million acres of organic crops a year in Argentina, up from 220 farmers and 13,000 acres in 1995. For the most part, people in Argentina haven't developed a taste for the stuff -- 90 percent of the country's organic crops are exported, mostly to the U.S. and Europe. The leading organic crops include soybeans, corn, fruits, rice, sugar, and tobacco. Jose Nanni, who ...
Topics: Argentina, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Not in a While, Crocodile		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Not in a While, Crocodile Enviros say more than 10,000 endangered crocodiles in Paraguay are dying because a major river that irrigated their swamplands is now being diverted to provide water for agriculture in Argentina. The crocodiles, known as Yacares, are starving to death or being encased in mud as the swamps dry up. Their numbers had been climbing before the Pilcomayo Ri ...
Topics: Argentina, food and agriculture, marine life, Paraguay, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

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