Tara is one of 32 rescued elephants housed between India’s only elephant hospital, the Wildlife SOS Elephant Hospital Campus, and the nearby 20-acre Elephant Conservation and Care Centre, both on the outskirts of Mathura, a city three hours’ drive from India’s capital, New Delhi.
“Each of them has a history of abuse and captivity,” says Kartick Satyanarayan, CEO and co-founder of Wildlife SOS, a non-profit wildlife conservation group that runs the hospital. Read More...
Sustainability has become a buzzword in recent years and more-form-than-substance “green initiatives” inevitably lead to accusations of “greenwashing”. But how did buildings in the past help define an earlier era’s notions of practical sustainability?
Above all else, the aim in Hong Kong and elsewhere in maritime Asia was to keep a building’s occupants sustainably cool – and therefore healthy, a vital consideration in the disease-prone tropics – in the days before mechanical cooling methods, such as electric fans, were invented, and widely introduced. Read More...
El 2023 ha sido un año de buenas noticias para la moneda mexicana, para los pesimistas, siempre será un año difícil y en el que lo bueno no durará y en donde se tiene que vivir en estrés. Los hechos han demostrado lo contrario. El peso mantiene una apreciación del 11.58% frente a la divisa del norte. El peso inicia el mes de septiembre con pérdidas de cara al dólar. Como en todo fenómeno contingente, siempre hay dos bandos, bastante maniqueos, por cierto, uno muy entusiasta y el otro completamente pesimista, pero al final nuestra moneda sigue estando entre las mejor posicionadas de cara al billete verde. Read More...