Tag: sustainability
Be Straw Free, says 9-year-old boy
In the United States alone, people use about 500 million straws each day. Nine-year-old Milo Cress wants to put a stop to it....
Scholastic distributed coal propaganda in schools
Educational materials distributed by respected children's publisher Scholastic push coal industry talking points onto kids in schools....
How to start an energy co-op
Ursula Sladek, winner of a 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize, helped her community buy a power grid and started a movement for environmental change....
The hidden costs of coal
Coal is one of the cheapest energy sources in the world, if you ignore the environmental costs and other externalities....
Poo-Gloos: Cleaning wastewater on the cheap
The village of Gresham, Wisconsin, is trying a novel way of getting rid of wastewater: Poo-Gloos, like igloos for sewage....
Ocean noise may threaten dolphins, whales
Human activity is raising the noise levels in the ocean, which could threaten the lives of dolphins and endangered whales. ...
Environmental groups sue the EPA to save species
Laws protecting endangered species and regulating pesticides could drastically change because of a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency....
Test tube sheep save endangered species
The SVF Foundation farm in Newport, Rhode Island, freezes animal embryos to save endangered heritage species from extinction....
Soap recycling helps Haiti
With easily preventable illnesses killing thousands of children every day, discarded hotel soaps can make the difference between health and deadly illness. ...America can't stop wasting food
If all the food that Americans waste were measured, it would amount to the equivalent of 350 million barrels of oil a year. That's about...
