Iniciatives

– Cape Verde: no resources, no problem
– Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
– Biofuels of MexicoCape Verde: no resources, no problem

For a small string of barren volcanic islands that have no natural resources, suffer from chronic droughts and are perched far off Africa’s west coast, Cape Verde is punching well above its weight. Unscathed by conflict or political instability, this small country has quietly become a middle-income nation.

[For more information->http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67A28E20100811]

Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area

Since December 2000, Fundación Metropolitana has been actively devoted to fostering participatory planning and inter-jurisdiction coordination processes in the Greater Buenos Aires region. This foundation seeks to improve metropolitan public governance, encouraging the harmonization of government and civil society decisions with a view to enhancing citizens’ life quality.

[For further information
->http://www.metropolitana.org.ar]

Biofuels of Mexico

In Mexico, restaurant kitchens dispose of their used oil by pouring it down the drain, thus polluting, infringing environmental regulations, and negatively affecting the efficiency and capacity of wastewater treatment plants, in addition to wasting the potential use of kitchen oil as fuel. Biofuels generates a two-fold environmental impact by eliminating kitchen oil from the environment and producing fuel, all within the framework of a self-sustaining process.

[For further information->http://www.recoleccionaceite.com]