Think before you snack. When you grab food at the convenience store or fast-food restaurant, you’ll probably get plastic packaging that goes right into the garbage. Food packaging and containers account for 31.14% of plastic pollution, according to the Plastic BAN (Better Alternatives Now) List, a combined research effort of 5 Gyres, Clean Production Action, Surfrider Foundation, and Upstream. But […]
OPINION A scarcity of weather stations in Africa and elsewhere in the Global South means millions of people cannot be alerted about impending extreme weather events. What’s needed is funding for equipment and early warning systems, which will reduce damage and save lives. By Friederike Otto • October 31, 2023 In early May, heavy rainfall led to severe flooding and hundreds of landslides […]
Ah summertime, hooking up the sprinkler for the kids to run through, washing the dog in the backyard, filling up the watering can from the hose. But after dragging the hose out of the garage, some of us might notice it has cracks, holes, or leaks. You can try to repair them, but if that doesn’t work, you might be […]
By Jeremy Williams Last week I reviewed the book The Seaweed Revolution, which I very much enjoyed. It mentions a vast range of uses for seaweed, some in detail, some in passing. One that caught my eye was the use of seaweed as a building material. It only gets a couple of paragraphs, so I bookmarked it to go and […]
The rise of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles will require a transformation in battery technology, the charging infrastructure, and the electric grid. Sam Abuelsamid, Principal Analyst for E-Mobility at Guidehouse Insights, joins the conversation to discuss electrification issues, from battery technology and mobility to smart cities, EV range anxiety, charging networks, and the distributed energy grid evolving around us. Sam […]
Children’s books about the environment don’t often get the kind of mainstream attention as fantasies and literary fiction. The Nature Generation’s annual Green Earth Book Awards help generate some of that valuable book buzz for environmental-themed books aimed at young people. The books they honor inspire youth to grow a deeper appreciation, respect, and responsibility for their natural environment – […]
Melt Ponds in the US Arctic. Photo credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / PDTillman, Public Domain, via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen Nearly a month out from the crucial COP28 climate summit, United Nations (UN) climate scientists have warned. The world is rapidly heading towards a cascade of environmental ‘tipping points’ which, if they were to materialise, could cause irreversible […]
For many of us, the Climate Crisis looks like a brick wall, something the internal combustion-driven economy will slam into and total the system we grew up in. John J. Berger, Ph.D., author of Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth, explored the path forward without getting up with the doom-saying that discourages people from […]
Our daily decisions add up to an immense impact on the world we live in. When you change your daily decisions, you can inspire others to think about nature and act to restore it. Today’s quote comes from German Romantic writer Jean Paul Richter, “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.” Earth911 […]