Tweet As of 2008, Latinos make up the largest and economically most influential minority group in the United States.Hispanic populations currently is 15.5% of the total population and is projected to grow by 6 million in the next two years. According to Poder magazine Hispanics can be broken into 5 groups:...
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
California Launches “Green Chemistry Initiative”
Tweet Coming on the heels of the state’s ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gases and address global warming by cutting carbon emissions, California announced this week a package of regulations aimed at consumer and industrial products. The “Green Chemistry Initiative” implements recently adopted state law authorizing the California’s Department...
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Corporate Initiatives Confront Climate Change – the winners and the losers
Tweet A new study has been released by Ceres, a coalition of environmental advocates and investors, ranking 63 of the world’s largest businesses based on the company’s efforts to minimize the impact of their operations on the climate. The biggest public relations white hat goes to IBM with the highest...
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Update – On Hispanic Appointments
Tweet HispanicBusiness.com reports that about 30 outstanding Latinos were quickly found to serve on Obama's transitional teams to help choose candidates deemed White House material, but less than 10 names have been publicly discussed for possible consideration. . . Now that Rep. John Salazar from Colorado has been named to...
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The Power of the People
Tweet Nearly 200 residents from Montgomery County, Texas located north of Houston attended a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) hearing on November 19 to protest against a proposed nonhazardous wastewater injection well http://hcnonline.com/articles/2008/11/24/woodlands_villager/news/wv-n_texcom.txt. The bottom line from the hearing is TCEQ commissioners refused to grant the permit (pending...
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