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Recycling Mystery: Brick

Recycling Mystery: Brick

The Three Little Pigs will be the first to tell you that brick is a reliable building material, used to create everything from walls to chimneys to firepits. But what do you do with leftover brick after the job is done, or with any chipped or cracked bricks that you end up replacing? Is brick recycling an option? Brick can […]

Make This Luxurious Lotion With Just 3 Ingredients

Make This Luxurious Lotion With Just 3 Ingredients

One of the best parts of sustainable living is learning to create things for yourself instead of buying them. It allows you to avoid materials and ingredients that are harmful to your family or the planet — and it’s also very satisfying personally. One of my favorite creations of the past few years has been this body lotion. Why Homemade […]

Infographic: Create an Indoor Fragrant Herb Garden

A fragrant herb garden is a great addition to any home. It’s easy to tend to and offers so many benefits. Fragrant herbs offer more than pleasant natural scents that don’t degrade your indoor air quality. You can use many of them for culinary, medicinal, and even pest-repellent purposes. The natural, fresh fragrances from an indoor herb garden can help […]

We Earthlings: Beer and Climate Change?

We Earthlings: Beer and Climate Change?

Did you know that even the beer you drink contributes to climate change? According to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the state’s beer drinkers are responsible for 202,700 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. That’s equivalent to 42,817 average passenger vehicles operated for one year. If you love to quaff a microbrew, consider cutting other sources of CO2 emissions from […]

3 Renewable Energy Trends for 2023

3 Renewable Energy Trends for 2023

Despite setbacks from the pandemic, renewable energy deployment is increasing. The Inflation Reduction Act extends renewable energy tax credits and helps remove barriers for low-income households to use clean energy. Although supply chain shortages have created hurdles across the energy industry, 2023 has the potential to be a promising year for the transition to clean energy. Let’s examine the forces […]

Earth Action: Switch Your Batteries

Earth Action: Switch Your Batteries

Earth911 is honoring the 52 years of Earth Day with 52 Actions for the Earth. Each week through Earth Day 2023, we will share an action you can take to invest in the Earth and make your own life more sustainable. The turn of the year is a great time to take care of some of those jobs around the […]

Earth911 Podcast: Emergent’s Allan Traicoff on the LEAF Coalition and Business’ Role in Nature Protection

Earth911 Podcast: Emergent’s Allan Traicoff on the LEAF Coalition and Business’ Role in Nature Protection

Staying within the Paris Climate Accord’s 1.5 degrees Celsius limit, at which potentially devastating climate changes will occur, requires ending deforestation before 2030. But as of 2020, the world was still losing about 38,600 square miles of forest annually. Meet Allan Traicoff, chief commercial officer at Emergent, a nonprofit that creates incentives for and connects businesses to natural climate solutions […]

Earth911 Inspiration: All Things Share the Same Breath

Earth911 Inspiration: All Things Share the Same Breath

Today’s quote is from Chief Sealth: “All things share the same breath — the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.” Earth911 inspirations. Print them, post them, share your desire to help people think of the planet first, every day. This poster was originally published on July 9, 2021.