Tag: patagonia
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Huge Win in Chile: Dam Permit Revoked Keeping Two Patagonia Rivers Wild
We are witnessing history in the making in Patagonia. After more than eight years of civil protests…
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Women Without Borders, Patagonia Without Dams
By Patrick J. Lynch A five-day ride on horseback ìs redefining citizen-based environmental advocacy in Patagonia. Amidst growing concerns about the destruction of Patagonia at the hands of the mining and energy sectors, 45 women from different regions of Chile and Argentina came together in January for a five-day cabalgata to call attention to the damming of…
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Environmental Dispatches from Patagonia: The People
The Patagonia Defense Council, with its partners from many countries, has been able to produce a detailed diagnosis of the ills of Chile’s energy model and has created a concrete proposal that would gradually, yet deeply reform the energy paradigm and re-orient it toward one that is socially and ecologically sustainable. The overwhelming scale of…