Watershed. It’s a common enough word, but are you familiar with yours? No matter where you live, your home is in a watershed. And the health of that watershed affects you, your community, and the rest of the planet. Our choices and actions can impact the land a world away. We write on paper that was made from trees cut […]
The holiday season is a time for giving and renewal, and you can help the planet by giving environmentally friendly gifts. Here are nine ideas to help you choose sustainable gifts for the men in your life — whether friend, spouse, father, or son — that will help them reduce their impact on the Earth. Society is a long way […]
Every day, we’re presented with recycling questions. Does this bottle go in the recycling bin or does it need special handling? Can I put paper with grease in the recycling bin? In this Earth911 Quiz, you’ll test your knowledge of daily recycling decisions. Making smart sustainable choices requires practice. Earth911’s weekly sustainability quiz helps you hone your ability to recognize […]
2022 is shaping up to be an exciting year for truck lovers as more truck manufacturers roll out their new electric models. In the third segment of our four-part series about new EVs in 2022, we’re exploring the soon-to-be burgeoning electric pickup truck market. Pickup trucks are the lifeblood of the U.S. auto industry. In fact, Ford’s F-series has been […]
Last February, the Toyota Motor Company broke ground on what it calls Woven City, a built-from-scratch futuristic urban center on 175 acres in the shadow of Mount Fuji. Woven City is a reference to the way the project plans to weave together cars, robots, data, and computers to create a city that the builders say, is highly efficient, pollution free, […]
Like most families when I was a child, mine didn’t really decorate for Thanksgiving. We sometimes put paper cutouts in the shape of a turkey or a cornucopia on the window. And we had a harvest-themed tablecloth and napkins in seasonal colors we would use for Thanksgiving dinner. But right after Thanksgiving, Mom would bring up the huge box of […]
Earth911 talks with Jake Felser, chief technology officer at Freight Farms, about the company’s “complete farming system inside a box.” It’s a very big box that includes climate controls and monitoring systems to make farming easy for anyone to do. Freight Farms builds and delivers shipping containers converted into highly efficient hydroponic farms that use LED lighting to grow and […]
A tale of two continents: Europe’s emissions rose by one fifth in the spring, as manufacturing and construction rebounded from the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, in China, emissions scarcely grew in the spring and fell in the summer amid a shortage of coal and a slowdown in construction. Carbon emissions from European Union countries were 18 percent greater in the second […]
In an unprecedented show of support for conservation, more than 180 zoos, aquariums and museums (ZAMs) from communities in all 50 states recently signed on to a letter of support for the Biden Administration’s America the Beautiful Initiative, and specifically the incorporated commitment to protect 30% of nature – lands, waters and ocean – by 2030 (“30×30”). Earlier this year, the […]
Over the next five years, Nissan Motor Company will put 2 trillion yen ($17.6 billion) toward developing a cheaper, more powerful battery to serve its expanded lineup of electric vehicles, the company announced Monday. Nissan plans to unveil 15 new EV models by 2030, as well as an additional eight partially gas-powered models. Such vehicles will account for half of […]