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Ambassador Garza and Mexican Officials Commemorate Earth Day
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On April 29, 2004, Ambassador Garza joined the
Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexican environmental
NGO's and an audience of 500 school children and their teachers
at the Desierto de los Leones National Park at
an event jointly commemorating Earth Day and Mexico's Children's
Day. The event recognized the USG-supported
Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
program, and a new GLOBE science station was inaugurated.
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Rodrigo Rueda, Coordinator of the program for the preservation of the Desierto de los Leones, left, provides tips in tree planting to Amb. Garza and Delegation Chief Ignacio Ruiz, engrossed in the process, as Alberto Cardenas, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, looks on.
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L. to R.: Cuauhtemoc Martinez Garcia, Chairman of the National Chamber of Manufacturing Industries; Mateo Castillo, member of NGO National Committe for the Earth Charter; Dr. Edgar Conzalez, Advisor on Environmental Education to the Secretariat of Education (SEP); Ignacio Ruiz, Chief of the Cuajimalpa delegation; Amb. Garza; Alberto Cardenas, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources; Juan Carlos Martínez Rivera, Director General of the 'Ecological Operation' Group.
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Left to right,
Mexico's Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources Alberto
Cárdenas; Ignacio Ruiz, Chief of the Cuajimalpa delegation; Ambassador
Garza, and Dr. Tiahoga Ruge, Coordinator of the Center for Education in Sustainable
Development (CECADESU) during ribbon-cutting ceremony
for the new GLOBE station at Desierto de los Leones National
Park. |
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The GLOBE Program
The Global Learning
and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is a worldwide
hands-on, primary and secondary school-based
science and education program. It is a cooperative effort of schools, led
in the United States by a Federal interagency program supported by NASA,
NSF, EPA and the State Department, in partnership with colleges and
universities, state and local school systems, and non-government
organizations. Internationally, GLOBE is a partnership between the United
States with over 100 other countries. Over a million primary and secondary
students in more than 12,000 schools have taken part in the program. In
Mexico, some 75 schools and over 750 students nationwide are participating
in the national GLOBE Program, managed by SEMARNAT, with plans for
expansion of the program to more states, schools, and students. |
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