Articles tagged as: environment secretary
Brazil’s Activist Environment Secretary Resigns
May 16, 2008
BRASILIA, Brazil, May 15, 2008 (ENS) – She rose from a rubber tapper’s family to become Brazil’s Secretary of the Environment for the past five years, but Amazon rainforest defender Marina Silva resigned on Tuesday, citing “the difficulties I have been facing to pursue the federal environmental agenda.” Silva said she would go back to [...]
Read More »20,000 Works of Art in Earth Day Recycling Collage
April 22, 2008
TOPEKA, Kansas, April 22, 2008 (ENS) – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Bureau of Waste Management was looking for a unique way to promote recycling on Earth Day. The answer was close at hand. Kansan and environmental artist Stan Herd agreed to create an environmental awareness collage using 20,000 pieces of artwork submitted [...]
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