Mexico's Green Movement

Here's an interesting article from Forum for the Future about Viva la vida verde, a publication which aims to document the current state of the Green Movement in Mexico. Sure, it's from last year, but I just happened upon it today. And it sure is still relevant!

Some examples of Mexican environmental leadership that the article mentions:

• "the Mexican tourism industry, one of the biggest in the world, is linking up traditional package holidays with local food projects and coral reef conservation;
• Mexico City has an ambitious Green Plan – with a goal of being self-sufficient for water by 2022, the introduction of waste to energy plants and a citywide recycling scheme;
• Mexico is to plant 250 million trees over the next decade;
• conservation efforts are being made to protect species such as the monarch butterfly;
• President Calderon sees a Green Fund as a better way to reduce global carbon emissions than the Clean Development Mechanism."

Yay for the Mexican tourism industry! That includes us, right?  Read about our own Baja Trek Mission and check out our Eco-travel pages to see about our own environmental commitments.

Read the Viva La Vida Verde publication here (PDF).