Green Puerto Rico

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Green Puerto Rico is a series of green reforms, geopolitical market transmutations and ecotourism movements established by Governor Luis Fortuño.

Renewable energy

On July 19, 2010, Fortuño signed three energy bills to reduce the island's dependence on oil and cut energy costs.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Law for Energy Diversification by Means of Sustainable Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy Certificates
Energy Tax Incentives Act of Green Puerto Rico

References

↑ the Daily Sun Staff. "Governor signs three energy bills". Puerto Rico Daily Sun. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
↑ CB Online Staff. "Governor inks three renewable energy measures". Caribbean Business. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
↑ Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration http://www.prfaa.com/news/?p=1132

Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

Secretariat (Secretary-General)

Members	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas¹ Barbados Belize Dominica Grenada Guyana Haiti¹ Jamaica Montserrat² St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago

Associate members	Anguilla Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Turks and Caicos Islands

Observers	Aruba Colombia Curaçao Dominican Republic Mexico Puerto Rico Sint Maarten Venezuela

Institutions	Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) Court of Justice (CCJ) Disaster Emergency Management (CDEMA) Examinations Council (CXC) Meteorological Institute (CMI) Meteorological Organisation (CMO) Public Health Agency (CARPHA) Single Market and Economy (CSME)

Related organizations	CARIFORUM Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)

¹ Member of the Community but not of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) ² British overseas territory awaiting entrustment to join the CSME

Environmental technology

Appropriate technology Clean technology Environmental design Environmental impact assessment Sustainable development Sustainable technology

Pollution	Air pollution (control dispersion modeling) Industrial ecology Solid waste treatment Waste management Water (agricultural wastewater treatment industrial wastewater treatment sewage treatment waste-water treatment technologies water purification)

Renewable energy	Alternative energy Efficient energy use Energy development Energy recovery Fuel (alternative fuel biofuel carbon negative fuel hydrogen technologies) List of energy storage projects Renewable energy (commercialization) Sustainable energy Transportation (electric vehicle hybrid vehicle)

Conservation	Birth control Building (green natural sustainable architecture New Urbanism New Classical) Conservation biology Conservation ethic Ecoforestry Environmental preservation Environmental remediation Green computing Permaculture Recycling

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History

Chronology	Pre-Columbus Grito de Lares Intentona de Yauco Foraker Act Jones–Shafroth Act Immigration to Hawaii Migration to New York World War I World War II 1950s Nationalist Party revolts Vietnam War Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center Military history

Immigration	African Chinese Corsican French German Irish Jewish

Geography

Ecology

Endemic flora

Fauna

Amphibians and reptiles (Herpetofauna) Birds Vieques Island

Endemic	Elfin woods warbler Golden coquí (frog) Mona ground iguana Monito gecko Puerto Rican amazon (parrot) Puerto Rican crested anole (reptile)

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Sustainability

Principles	Ecological modernization Environmentalism Human impact on the environment Planetary boundaries Social sustainability Stewardship Sustainable development

Consumption	Anthropization Anti-consumerism Ecological footprint Ethical Over-consumption Simple living Sustainability advertising Sustainability brand Sustainability marketing myopia Sustainable Systemic change resistance Tragedy of the commons

Population	Birth control Family planning Control Overpopulation Zero growth

Technology	Appropriate Environmental Sustainable

Biodiversity	Biosecurity Biosphere Conservation biology Deep ecology Endangered species Holocene extinction Invasive species

Energy	Carbon footprint Climate change mitigation Conservation Descent Efficiency Emissions trading Fossil-fuel phase-out Peak oil Renewable Energy poverty

Food	Forest gardening Local Permaculture Security Sustainable agriculture Sustainable fishery Urban horticulture

Water	Conservation Crisis Efficiency Footprint

Accountability	Sustainability accounting Sustainability measurement Sustainability metrics and indices Sustainability reporting Standards and certification Sustainable yield

Applications	Advertising Architecture Art Business City College programs Community Design Ecovillage Education for Sustainable Development Fashion Gardening Geopark Green marketing Industries Landscape architecture Living Low-impact development Sustainable market Organizations Packaging Practices Procurement Tourism Transport Urban drainage systems Urban infrastructure Urbanism

Management	Environmental Fisheries Forest Materials Natural resource Planetary Waste

Agreements	UN Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972) Brundtlandt Commission Report (1983) Our Common Future (1987) Earth Summit (1992) Rio Declaration on Environment and Development Agenda 21 (1992) Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) ICPD Programme of Action (1994) Earth Charter Lisbon Principles UN Millennium Declaration (2000) Earth Summit 2002 (Rio+10, Johannesburg) United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, 2012) Sustainable Development Goals

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