An estimated 10 trillion gallons a year of untreated stormwater runs off roofs, roads, parking lots, and other paved surfaces, often through the sewage systems, into rivers and waterways that serve as drinking water supplies and flow to our beaches, increasing health risks, degrading ecosystems, and damaging tourist economies.
Academic initiatives are aimed at sparking interest in green business practices in local communities and foreign companies operating in Mexico, from Walmart to Nissan.
Cash-strapped governments around the world are turning to market-based schemes that preserve endangered species by incorporating the cost of habitat destruction into the cost of development, according to a new report compiled by Ecosystem Marketplace. Unfortunately, most schemes lack the transparency needed to send the kind of price signals necessary to create an incentive to conserve.
