The latest in Haiti

Taiwan charity sends eco-friendly blankets as aid

2010-09-14T00:30:10Z

Taiwan charity delivers eco-blankets to disaster victims in Haiti, soon in Pakistan

A Taiwanese Buddhist charity is helping disaster victims stay warm — and eco-friendly — with fleece blankets made from recycled plastic bottles.

The Tzu Chi Found...

Clinton Foundation to Donate 20,000 Solar Flashlights in Haiti ? With Your Help

2010-10-14T14:00:38Z

By Mike Valenti

EnviroCitizen.org has been contacted today by the William J. Clinton Foundation for help in getting the word out on an extremely worthy cause. We are excited and encouraged by their efforts and support them completely. We would like to encourage our EnviroCitizens to support them as well.

In summary, the Clinton Foundation's initiatives address various global challenges, including climate change and sustainable development. Both are issues th...

A tree grows in Haiti

2010-09-13T11:06:55Z

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Haiti to use quake rubble in capital's rebuilding

2010-04-03T12:45:17Z

In rubble from Haiti's quake, planners see valuable material for capital's reconstruction

The rubble from Haiti's shattered capital is rising in heaps at the port, dumped for sorting and recycling by a fleet of heavy, exhaust-belching trucks.

A tangle of twisted metal and broken blocks, it's an eyesore for now. But officials planning the reconstruction see only value in the debris: material to build roads, expand the...

Mankind and Haiti

2010-10-05T23:24:03Z

The tragedy that happened at Haiti had once again proved that mankind has its own cruelness and kindness. That through natural calamity mankind will reflect to himself on what he did to his environment, neighbors and self and what he will do after a tragedy. Will he fall or will he stand from his fall?

?Mountainous country," this is where Haiti was derived and came from the language of the Taino Indians who inhabited the island before European colonization. After independence in 180...

Haiti's environment needs long-term help

2010-10-24T15:21:01Z

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Haiti's environment needs long-term help: experts

2010-10-13T14:34:55Z

OSLO (Reuters) - Long-term efforts to help Haiti recover from the earthquake will have to reverse environmental damage such as near-total deforestation that threatens food and water supplies for the Caribbean nation, experts say.

The focus is now on emergency aid -- Haitian officials est...

How to Recycle-Unusual Items

2010-10-21T11:15:56Z

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Shrinking Forests: The Many Costs

2010-10-23T22:40:00Z

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Haiti Reforestation Project: Young Visionaries Take Action

2010-10-23T02:40:28Z

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Haiti

2011-01-04T19:31:15Z

A man runs on a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Haiti Year Of Crisis

2010-12-31T12:01:50Z

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2010 file photo, people walk down a street amid earthquake rubble in Port-au-Prince, haiti. In 2010 crisis has piled upon crisis in Haiti. More than 230,000 are believed to have died in the quake, and more than a million remain homeless. A cholera epidemic broke out in the fall, and in its midst a dysfunctional election was held, its results still unclear.(AP Photo/Gregor...

Haiti France Adoption

2010-12-22T05:30:31Z

French citizen Pascal Blondeau, 38, holds her Haitian adopted daughter Daudeline Desir in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010. French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Saturday that 318 children had been cleared for adoption and were being allowe...

Disastrous Year YE

2010-12-19T08:01:18Z

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010 file photo, a girl walks on debris outside a damaged building after an earthquake, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 _ the deadliest year in more than a generation. The January earthquake killed more than 220,000 people. Port-au-Prin...