The UCLA Newsroom website of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) announced at the end of last July that a group of scientists and researchers from this educational institution have developed a transparent polymer that turns any glass surface into a solar panel. This polymer could revolutionize the global energy landscape […]
Could organic farming, which proposes the avoidance of pesticides and genetically modified seeds, be a solution to addressing global hunger? That was the question posed through keynote lectures, discussions, and displays of produce from dozens of Ecuador's best agroecological farms.
On October 16th of this year, the Festival for Food Sovereignty will be held on the esplanade of the MAAC (Agricultural and Agricultural Association) in Guayaquil. That day was declared World Food Day by the FAO, and Food Sovereignty Day by the peasant social movement. The purpose of the festival is to raise awareness among […]
Antonio dreams that the land he works belongs to him, he dreams that his sweat is paid with justice and truth, he dreams that there is a school to cure ignorance and medicine to ward off death, he dreams that his house is lit and his table is full, he dreams that his land is free and that it is reason […]
With artistic interventions in Sacachún and poetry and text readings at the Farallon Dillon Inn in Ballenita, the 3rd Ancestral and Contemporary Spiritual Erotic Art Exhibition continues this Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th, respectively. The Sacachún community will be the third stop on the […]
BY: Diana Zavala Reyes And I, for being the first Let us sing with fullness Tonight We celebrate Saint John and the Holy Cross Tonight We celebrate Saint John and the Holy Cross More than a century ago, my maternal great-grandfather started a festival in Membrillal – Jipijapa – south of Manabí – Ecuador. The festivity […]
We denounce to the Ecuadorian people that on Saturday, September 14, 18 ENAMI trucks, accompanied by soldiers and police, began occupying the Intag area in the province of Imbabura, where farmers and residents are actively resisting large-scale open-pit mining, which they have attempted to […]
Researcher Manuel Palacios explaining a petroglyph in the province of Morona Santiago. He regularly publishes the results of his research at http://tayoscave.wordpress.com. Current scientific knowledge and the philosophical ideas we have about the world we live in are not only the product of the brilliant minds of the twentieth century but also of the contributions left by ancient cultures that served […]
From the moment the president announced the decision to exploit the Yasuní River, citizen protests across the country were swift. Thousands of images circulate daily on social media expressing this discontent. But these protests haven't been the only ones taking place on social media. Little by little, young people […]
By: Guadalupe Rodríguez (Director of Salva la Selva) The Yasuní Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon is one of the most biodiverse places in the world. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa recently decreed oil exploitation in its last remaining corner. The harsh reality is that he has taken another step towards […]
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