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Won't You Be My Labor? Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage		14 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Won't You Be My Labor? Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage Organic farmers are desperately struggling to find workers, caught between rising demand and an ever-more-severe labor shortage. More than half of the 1.8 million farmworkers in the U.S. are here illegally, and increased border patrols have reduced the number of immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Service-s ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Mexico, news, United States (all these topics)

Costs of convenience While demand for frozen food booms, processing plants head to China and Mexico	Tom Philpott	11 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Farmers markets may be fashionable, but the U.S. appetite for convenience food remains insatiable. 'Retail sales of frozen foods in the U.S. in 2005 reached a record $29 billion, up from nearly $26 billion in 2001,' declares a news report. Meanwhile, the U.S. food-processing giants are shuttering domestic plants and heading to Mexico and China, where labor and produce costs are cheaper than California's central coast, once the U.S. frozen food capital. In an age of b ...
Topics: China, food, Mexico (all these topics)

Law and Border Immigration scuffles threaten wildlands along the U.S.-Mexico border	Eliza Barclay	06 Jun 2006	Main Dish
In the three-way struggle between the U.S. Border Patrol, illegal border crossers, and the natural environment, it's never clear who's winning. A U.S. Border Patrol truck on the move near Douglas, Ariz. Photo: Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. If you ask the Border Patrol, they will tell you they apprehended nearly 1.2 million illegal crossers in fiscal year 2005, and that it w ...
Topics: land degradation, Mexico, United States (all these topics)

Moderately Bueno! Mexico City air is a little better than it used to be		17 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Moderately Bueno! Mexico City air is a little better than it used to be Two decades ago, Mexico City's air was widely deemed the worst on the planet. Today, while the city of 20 million is still one of the world's most polluted, it's no longer top dog. (Several cities in China now dominate the charts.) A concerted effort to clear the Mexican capital's air led to the dismantling of a major oil refinery in 1991, the phaseout of l ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico, news (all these topics)

Fit to Be Ride Francisca Porchas, clean-bus campaigner, answers readers' questions		17 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Francisca Porchas of the Bus Riders Union. How is your organization working with the state of California and the feds to bring cleaner transportation options to your communities? I noted that you mentioned gas-powered buses -- how many? -- Bill Turner, Dillsburg, Pa. Our main focus to this day has been working with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, an agency with an annual budget of $3 bill ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, InterActivist, interview, Mexico, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Bicker Agua World Water Forum to get controversial kickoff this week in Mexico City		15 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Bicker Agua World Water Forum to get controversial kickoff this week in Mexico City If you're going to be in Mexico City on Thursday, don't drink the water. Oh, and you might want to swing by the World Water Council's not-very-creatively-named World Water Forum -- or a protest march timed to coincide with its opening. Dozens of government ministers, hundreds of water companies, and thousands of other water-i ...
Topics: Mexico, news, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

The Bus Stops Here Francisca Porchas, clean-bus campaigner, answers Grist's questions		13 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Francisca Porchas. What work do you do? I am a lead organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center and the Bus Riders Union's Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign, based in Los Angeles. How does it relate to the environment? The Strategy Center has engaged in environmental-justice and civil-rights campaigns for the last 17 years, combining grassroots organizing and policy work with a str ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, InterActivist, interview, Mexico, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

How do you define "environmentalism"?	Chris Schults	07 Mar 2006	Gristmill
Dave's environmental ethics post addressed an issue that has become more and more apparent here in Gristmill: the term 'environmentalism' means something different to each one of us. This is exemplified in today's Soapbox by Oliver Bernstein on environmental issues along the U.S.-Mexico border: Laguna La Escondida in Reynosa, Mexico, a water source for the surrounding community whose name means Hidden Lagoon, is also an important migratory bird stopover point. Re ...
Topics: Mexico, Texas, waste, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Walking the Line What Mexican activists can teach the U.S. about poverty and the planet	Oliver Bernstein	07 Mar 2006	Soapbox
As the border organizer for Sierra Club's Environmental Justice program, I bounce back and forth across the U.S.-Mexico border supporting grassroots environmental activists. More than the food, language, or currency, the biggest difference from one side to the other is what issues are considered "environmental." Perhaps nowhere else on earth is there such a long borde ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Mexico, politics, population, Poverty and the Environment, Sierra Club, sprawl, United States, waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

What Doesn't Krill Me Makes Me Stronger Smaller number of gray whales migrating south to breed, says researcher		13 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
What Doesn't Krill Me Makes Me Stronger Smaller number of gray whales migrating south to breed, says researcher Fewer gray whales are migrating from North Pacific feeding grounds to warm Mexican lagoons to breed this year. British whale researcher William Megill says only 90 whales made it to the San Ignacio lagoon on Mexico's Baja Peninsula by February -- down about 50 percent from the same time last year. Scientists have noted an ab ...
Topics: Mexico, news, oceans (all these topics)

You Make Me Wanna Spout Conservation agreement will help protect gray-whale lagoon in Mexico		02 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
You Make Me Wanna Spout Conservation agreement will help protect gray-whale lagoon in Mexico OK, stay calm. We don't want to freak you out or anything, but we've got some ... good news. Seems American and Mexican conservationists have united with local Mexican landholders to preserve a pristine gray-whale calving ground. The Laguna San Ignacio, an area of bird-friendly wetlands and fish-rich mangroves on the northwestern Mexican coast ...
Topics: Mexico, news, oceans (all these topics)

Stan in the Place Where You Live Mexico and Central America reel under latest gulf hurricane		05 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Stan in the Place Where You Live Mexico and Central America reel under latest gulf hurricane The name "Stan" does not typically inspire fear (even if it's better than "Stanley"), but a hurricane with that moniker has been wreaking havoc down south. In what is sure to be another blow to North America's hobbled energy supply, all three of Mexico's crude-oil loading ports on the Gulf of Mexico ...
Topics: Central America, energy, Mexico, news, oil (all these topics)

Acquittin' Time Judge dismisses murder charges against Mexican peasant ecologist		22 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Acquittin' Time Judge dismisses murder charges against Mexican peasant ecologist Mexican forest activist Felipe Arreaga was freed last week after 10 months in jail, acquitted by a judge on murder charges stemming from the 1998 death of rancher and landowner Bernardino Bautista's son. Arreaga is a leader in the peasant-ecologist movement of Mexico's Petatlan Sierra, which gained fame for blocking massive corporate logging ...
Topics: logging, Mexico, news, wilderness (all these topics)

PET Cemetery New recycling plant may help Mexico cope with litter and landfills		19 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
PET Cemetery New recycling plant may help Mexico cope with litter and landfills Mexicans lead the globe in gulping sugary drinks, but recycle only a thin sliver of the 9 billion PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles they use every year. Hoping to jump-start a national culture of recycling, Environment Minister Jose Luis Luege attended last week's opening of a new recycling plant near the city of Toluca, which will ...
Topics: green living, Mexico, news, recycling (all these topics)

Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Obrador's Heaven Ambitious new bus rapid-transit system hits the road in Mexico City		21 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Obrador's Heaven Ambitious new bus rapid-transit system hits the road in Mexico City Mexico City mayor and popular presidential hopeful Andrés Manuel López Obrador hopes to clear some of his city's legendary smog and gridlock with an ambitious pilot transport project -- a bus system with a hint o' subway. Eighty new low-emission Volvo jumbo buses have replaced about 350 older, smaller ...
Topics: Mexico, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

At Loggerheads Mexico pressured to protect eco-activists after two murders last week		26 May 2005	Daily Grist
At Loggerheads Mexico pressured to protect eco-activists after two murders last week International human-rights groups yesterday urged the Mexican government to take action to protect the lives of environmental activists who are carrying out anti-logging campaigns. The plea comes on the heels of an attack last week on longtime activist Albertano Penalosa, which resulted in the murders of two of his sons. Amnesty International, Greenp ...
Topics: logging, Mexico, news (all these topics)

The LNG-est Yard Activists fight new round of proposed LNG terminals		09 May 2005	Daily Grist
The LNG-est Yard Activists fight new round of proposed LNG terminals While President Bush extols the virtues of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in speeches, energy companies have been at work, planning some 50 new LNG import terminals across North America, most slated for U.S. ports. Meanwhile, citizens and officials in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island, where new terminals are proposed ...
Topics: energy, Mexico, natural gas, news, United States (all these topics)

In the Name of the Father Isidro Baldenegro López leads a struggle against logging in the Sierra Madre	Michelle Nijhuis	22 Apr 2005	Main Dish
Isidro Baldenegro López. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. When Isidro Baldenegro López was growing up in the mountains of central Mexico, his father opposed widespread logging in the forests of the Sierra Madre. He spoke out about the effects of the destruction on the indigenous Tarahumara people, drawing the attention of local crime bosses, who ordered him ki ...
Topics: logging, Mexico (all these topics)

Funny, but Not Baja Funny Gray whales in Baja sanctuary threatened by development		25 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Funny, but Not Baja Funny Gray whales in Baja sanctuary threatened by development Five years ago, conservationists in Baja Mexico won a difficult battle to prevent a salt production plant from setting up shop near the San Ignacio Lagoon, a winter refuge for migrating California gray whales. But the Mexican government's shift toward industrialization has some local residents gearing up for an even more challenging fight. New regulation ...
Topics: Mexico, news, oceans (all these topics)

The Death of Something Other Than Environmentalism Monarch butterfly populations see sharp decline this season		15 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Death of Something Other Than Environmentalism Monarch butterfly populations see sharp decline this season Cold, wet weather in the U.S., illegal deforestation in Mexico, and strong herbicides used on genetically altered crops in the U.S. and Canada are, warn scientists, threatening the survival of the monarch butterfly. Researchers say the number of monarchs that made it to their forested, hilly winteri ...
Topics: Canada, Mexico, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

De-Fence, De-Fence U.S. border fencing project may harm sensitive ecological area		11 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
De-Fence, De-Fence U.S. border fencing project may harm sensitive ecological area A half-mile-wide canyon and estuary situated on the U.S.-Mexico border just 12 miles from San Diego, Calif., is the locus of a conflict between environmentalists and the feds. The ecologically sensitive marshland is part of a 3.5-mile gap in secondary fencing at the border, making it a sweet spot for illegal immigrants and, speculate H ...
Topics: Mexico, news, United States, wetlands (all these topics)

A Bouquet of Honey-Rosés Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Rosés answers readers' questions		28 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Jordi Honey-Rosés, WWF Mexico Program. What do you feel are some of the key elements that individuals and organizations must consider when developing strategies that will both preserve and protect the monarch butterfly, the forests and benefit the landowners and citizens of Mexico? -- Don Davis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada This is a very good question that gets at the heart of the challenge face ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Days of Wine and Honey-Rosés Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Rosés answers Grist's questions		24 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Jordi Honey-Rosés. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? Currently I serve as program officer in the Mexican Forest Program for World Wildlife Fund, working to protect the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico. The pine and fir forest region where I work is the winter habitat for the migratory North American monarch butterfly. These butterflies travel all th ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Her Name Is Rio The new anthology Rio Grande chronicles the life and troubled times of a fabled river	Dan Oko	30 Nov 2004	Arts and Minds
Rio Grande, edited by Jan Reid, U. of Texas Press, 337 pgs., 2004. The week before I sat down to read Rio Grande, a thick new anthology about the famed river edited by Texas scribe Jan Reid, a strange sight appeared on the actual Rio Grande outside the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas. A fiberglass statue of Jesus was discovered grounded on a sandbar in the river, drawing ...
Topics: Mexico, rivers and watersheds, West (all these topics)

We Was Cobbed! NAFTA panel says U.S. GM corn is invading Mexico		10 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
We Was Cobbed! NAFTA panel says U.S. GM corn is invading Mexico A panel of scientists convened by NAFTA at the request of Mexican farmers and officials has concluded that genetically modified corn grown in the U.S., where it is legal, is crossing the border and contaminating crops in Mexico, where it is not, and that the contamination constitutes a threat that needs to be addressed. (It is legal to use GM corn for f ...
Topics: GMOs, Mexico, politics, United States (all these topics)

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