RECREARTE San Jose Bocomtenelte

The eco-park is a San Jose park Bocomtenelte natural conservation and education located on the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas (Zinacantan municipality). The park is part of the Natural History Institute of the State and its primary objective is the protection of flora and fauna of the state of Chiapas.

Is a research center that houses different types of animals and plants, where biologists and technicians working to rehabilitate and preserve the natural beauty and riches of Chiapas.

The park occupies an area of approximately 16 hectares, but so far only used 2 hectares. The new administration wants to reorganize the park and its facilities according to sustainable and ecological philosophy, as well as developing services for nature lovers and tourists responsible (for bird watching facilities, bicycle routes, ecological refuges, etc.).. Future plans are part of the strategic planning of the whole Institute. In 2008 the Instituto de Historia Natural de Chiapas (INH) and Natate began a long-term project called Ecoparque Education. The project is being undertaken as part of a larger operational strategy of the Educational Park San Jose called RECREARTE (remodeling, Growth, Interaction and Eco-Tourism Regional Development). To Natate the project addresses the needs of the organization through its objectives of sustainable development and education programs.

Through cooperation between civil society and local institutions, the project members want to promote and demonstrate that cooperation and solidarity can be strengthened in our efforts and achieve better results.

The site has an extensive bio-diversity, since according to data Ecopark, the area has more than 375 plant species, 188 bird species (39 endemic and 149 migratory), 40 mammals, 19 reptiles and 13 amphibians.

The forest coverage is over 90% and has eight different types of vegetation, according to data obtained from ecological studies, developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, The Nature Conservancy and Ancona in 1996.

Less than 10% of the site is developed with shelters and deposits the remaining 90% remains undeveloped and densely forested, with predominantly steep terrain.

Was adopted by the Cabinet Council of Ecopark Panama is managed by a Board comprising representatives of the Rotary Club Panama Nordeste; GAIA Association for the conservation and management of biodiversity, the Pan American Association for the Conservation, the GeoSpatial Forestry and Economic Analysis Lab of the Southern Illinois University and the International Institute of Tropical Forest (IITF), USDA.

The creation of the Board, has been ratified by Resolution of Board of Directors of the Rotary Club Panama Nordeste, dated March 22, 2005.

Yiscel S. Yanguez P., Department of Information Ecoparque account today need the support of all to make this project a reality.

“For them it is of great interest spread to as many people this message, this way they ensure that a large segment of the population knows what is being done for the conservation of their forests, which in turn will greatly benefit everyone, “added Yanguez.

(With information provided by Ecoparque)

Stage 1 - Management Strategy 

Is the development of preliminary studies, the master plan, feasibility study and environmental impact, site, development of promotional materials and outreach, advertising, and formal presentation of the project to the media.

Stage 2 - Preliminary Development

Conditioning, cleaning, landscaping and beautification of the area
-Adequacy of administrative offices
-Visitors Center
Nature trails, and sports
Mountain-bike trails
Special-Trails for the disabled
Camped-Areas
Recreational areas,
Botanical-Garden
-Butterfly
-Restaurants and cafes
-Suspension bridge in the forest
Ecotren-tourism
Lookout (observation towers)
Interpretation Center
Wildlife Center (educational exhibits of flora and fauna of Panama)

-Amphitheater for cultural and social events
-Areas for public events and fairs
Farms, nurseries and education for the development of organic farming
Orquidiario -
Center for Training in Sustainable Tourism
Bathrooms-public nursing and parking
Plan interpretation and signage

Besides all the above elements, have also proposed the creation of museums, parks management training, audiovisual rooms, craft center and souvenir shops, theme parks and tropical forests, Lego theme park (Canal de Panama ), planetarium, sports complex, equestrian trails, recreational lakes and safaris.

Thalia S. Morales
Special prensa.com
I visited Panama Ecoparque project of the Rotary Club a couple of months ago. This project is painted in a perfect way.
But is not finished, indeed, have not even begun, but it is not because the Rotary Club has not loved is because they have not yet approved the project.

WHAT IS THE PROJECT?

The Interoceanic Region Authority (ARI) under a lease granted in August 2004 to the Rotary Club Panama Nordeste (CRPND), supported by the Pan American Association for the Conservation (GAIA Panama) and other organizations, an area of forest 372 hectares of humid tropical, located on the west side of the Panama Canal, to develop a recreation area and public education that benefits the community.

According to Nestor Correa, leader of the project, the aim is to develop an ecological park in the area west of the Panama Canal, through which a process of education and entertainment for the Panamanian population, while contributing to the conservation and preservation of environment and biodiversity.

The specific objectives are:

• Protect and maximize existing resources
• Highlight the historical and cultural development
• Contribute to economic development and social development
• Creating new options for tourism
• Increase the number of jobs for the Panamanian population
• Reaching the expansion of the metropolitan area and the western
• Protect the watershed of the Panama Canal and the natural resources

The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) in conjunction with a Department of Energy grant for product life cycle design for solid-state lighting has joined with LED Strip Lighting company , a developer and producer of next-generation solid-state lighting technology to develop eco-friendly LED Lights products.

The purpose of the DOE grant of more than $590,000 to the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences is to develop a sustainable design and manufacturing strategy that addresses product use, recycling and disposal scenarios for LED-based lighting.

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The Stadtoase in the middle of the historic towers of the Vienna Gasometer: By ECHO PARK, named in reference to the successful film by Robert Dornhelm, the Gasometer City gets a “green heart”!

At more than 1400m ² has mastermind Helmuth Sharpening - known for his successful music productions, among others with Jose Feliciano ( “The Sound Of Vienna”) - the hot spot of gasometers created a park under the glass dome of the Gasometer B with more than 200 seats, a Dancefloor, three stages, the ECHO PARK shop and an exhibition area in a short time from the ground! The ECHO PARK stands out not only by its architecture, and the lounge with typical Viennese design elements, but also by modern technology. 8 flat screens, a big screen, a DJ tower with live recording opportunity, and Web radio to the ECHO PARK the center of live gigs, presentations, top events of all kinds and the “Walk of Stars” (the program for October and November, follows in the next few days).

Flavors in the green Stadtoase: The coffee and dairy products - all organically grown - are by the renowned Daniel Moser house, the bakery man spoil you with delicious baked goods of all kinds! In addition, from breakfast, lunch on a plate to eat until the night of culinary delicacies from the ECHO PARK own kitchen!

And, and, and with a separate outlet from Austria’s largest concert tickets ticket sales and the hot designer T-shirts Black Shirt, further emphasis. In addition, shortly in an adjacent shop, the exhibition “The history of Viennese coffee houses throughout the centuries”, in cooperation with the Vienna Stadt-und Landesarchiv opened. Included: a valuable, historic coffee machines!

On all sections of the blog have touched the air, soil, among others, but they are not talking about a very important visual pollution, and it is not proper eye dirty but something much more serious that can become big trouble and major diseases.

Visual pollution

Is the change or imbalance of the landscape, either natural or artificial, which affects the living and the vital functions of living beings. Contamibanación the causes of vision are:
Excesses of advertising and news (luminous or not) in the form of posters in the process.
Excessive advertising and news programs on television in general.
Distortions in new buildings or natural landscapes scaring the animals.
Landfills that ruin the landscape and can ward off tourism.
the effects of this pollution are serious:

Stress.
Headache.
Dangerous distractions (especially when driving a vehicle).
Traffic Accidents
Ecological problems (some species are moving away and breaks the ecological equlibrio).

The company is sensitive to environmental pollution and even noise pollution, since it is a phenomenon exteriorized. Many times people are so weak, often do not realize what it does and does so repeatedly denied the existence of the ads and the excessive amount of these posters as if it were a b roma or exaggeration.

Consider for example this as a poster image is repeated three times in the same place. with that goal? three to one and if people saw them? this is what they call visual pollution.

First, cities have transformed the natural landscape in a cluster of asphalt and cement. After the large companies and advertisers are responsible for polluting it with them “mental issues”. Consider now the two sets of images of impressive changes caused by visual pollution.

COLLEGE EXAMPLE …
COLEGIO SAN JOSÉ DE LA SALLE
Of Medellín.

“San Jose clean and green” was the project and also the motto of the day August 30 of 2006 made all students of the Colegio de San Jose de la Salle to recycle and think about and protect the environment and the school. This project aims to keep students aware of the school clean, they were all purchased from an ecological culture and toilet cleaning.
Since then the school or take your pet, “recycle”, which is invited to recycle and think about the environment, and also the environmental sentinels, who are students of the institution doing to support all students and their recall the classification of waste.

At school, 23 are distributed so-called “display” (set of drums) each equipped with 4 cans for the respective classification, and display overseas 6, each with 2 cans at the top of these containers are signs are the universal signs of color and c lass of each drum of waste. Also throughout the school there are posters on this campaign, inviting students to go ahead with the project.

Although this is a project that started very recently, is a project that student awareness and to put it to recycle. Congratulations to the school by this campaign and hope that many schools in the city of Medellin and other cities of Colombias .

THE GARBAGE WE DO NOT destroy or

ESNSUCIE … Finished with it …

Another serious problem that occurs at the global level waste, both organic and inorganic, to do with them? Is simple, just avoid making the separation and recycling of such waste by the time it takes us, so the best way habit of taking it, including recycling, separating, cleaning of waste in our daily routine and so we were not accrue or become a serious problem.
problem:
To explain what the problem is, let’s take the example of aluminum. When we throw aluminum cans into the rivers, the sea, envalses, lakes etc, they can leave behind a mineral known as bauxite, when a river is drawn to say a ton of aluminum cans or any container of this material, you have to remove the water that four tons of bauxite; during the manufacturing process to produce two tons of mud look highly polluting, it is difficult to remove, then one can see that contributes to a major disaster.
solution:
Recycling, Recycling is the process by which waste products are re-used, in the case of cans, then consume a canned product, then separated from the others away, a collection, then compact is melts, is laminated, is made and again is fit for consumption.

pay attention … It’s important to recycle because
many natural resources are wasted
because the more it is recycled less waste volumes and therefore less volume of toxins and pollutants.
saving energy in the production of glass saves 44% of enrgía, in the production of plastic saves a ton of oil, etc.
as already mentioned before, decreasing the pollutants in the case of aluminum, if that is recycled, it prevents contamination of the water and mud bauxite.

There is a kind of separation of organic and inorganic garbage and you see the latter (inorganic) by material and use of waste, this separation is done in cans or bags of different colors, the separation principle is that you make the nesecita organic and inorganic waste, because there are people from other specialistser

Day by day our changing world, the vast majority of environmental causes, many of these changes are irreversible.
But we, the generations to come in time to save our environment, recycle it, transform it and use it better, so it provides a lot of attention so that s EPAS is happening and how you can help to preserve the earth.

air pollution

Air pollution has increased markedly in recent years and is one of the most serious problems facing mankind. It is no longer a matter of a few places, the wind has been commissioned to make it a global problem. The problem of air pollution began about 200 years ago with the Revolution industrial. Today, the expelled smoke from cars, trucks and collective, industrial processes, heating systems and even cigarette smoke come together to pollute the air we breathe, causing a large proportion of respiratory diseases that are in large cities .
Did you know …?
One of the world’s five most polluted cities are: Beijing, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Seoul and Shanghai, this does not mean that the rest of the world is free from pollution, we all remember cuebiertos under a single layer ozone, that it is finished because of the gases of the large factories and automobiles.

acid rain.
Acid rain is formed when moisture in the air combines with nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide emitted by factories, power plants and vehicles that burn coal or oil. (more…)