By Jeremy Williams “At the risk of seeming unreasonable, may curses rain down on the fair-weather vegan,” began a recent article on meat eating from a certain national newspaper. It went on to lambast ‘fake’ vegans, or ‘fegans’. Sales of meat alternatives are falling, and “we should have known the vegan-newbies would turn out to be a bunch of flakes.” […]
Photo credit: Earth Overshoot Day. By Anders Lorenzen Earth Overshoot Day is the day of the year when we have already used up all the resources the Earth can generate. It has been happening earlier and earlier each year since the 1970s. This year the day falls on the 2nd of August. It is estimated it would take 1.7 Earths […]
The average American generates 3.5 times the global average of carbon dioxide emissions annually. That’s 18.55 tons of CO2 emissions per American each year. The stuff we buy is the second-largest source of emissions in the U.S. — 26% of the national total. One way we can reduce our emissions is by considering the impacts of an item before we […]
By now you’ve probably seen the headlines warning that the shipping crisis threatens holiday shopping. The combination of workers sick with COVID-19, a lack of shipping containers, labor shortages, and natural disasters caused by climate change is going to make traditional gifts harder to find this holiday season. But those empty shelves may not be the disaster some are making […]