sustainability

a man standing in front of a colorful bottle cap mural

Venezuelan artist uses recycled bottle caps to create large eco-murals

Oscar Olivares plans to take his ecological art global in hopes of promoting sustainable practices and educating communities on how to recycle.

Venezuelan artist uses recycled bottle caps to create large eco-murals
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What Munich's coffee houses learned about waste from beer culture

What Munich's coffee houses learned about waste from beer culture
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Can coffee become the world’s first 100 percent sustainable agricultural product?

Can coffee become the world’s first 100 percent sustainable agricultural product?
According to sociologist Toby Miller, our online activity has a real effect. If the Cloud were a country, it would have the fifth largest energy-consumption rate in the world.

Your Netflix binging might be hurting the planet

Your Netflix binging might be hurting the planet
Trash generated on land is flowing into the ocean at much higher rates than previous numbers suggest, according to a new study in the journal "Science."

Forget the floating Pacific garbage patch — new trash entering the oceans is much worse

Forget the floating Pacific garbage patch — new trash entering the oceans is much worse
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Improving the 'cold chain' could help reduce global hunger and lessen the effects of climate change

A third of the world’s food spoils in transit and never reaches the table — food that could feed more than the 870 million people on Earth who don't get enough to eat. Improved refrigeration and transportation of perishable foods through a better integrated “cold chain” could combat world hunger and mitigate climate change without the need to grow more food to feed an increasing population.

Improving the 'cold chain' could help reduce global hunger and lessen the effects of climate change
Dr. Jeff Wilson, otherwise known as Professor Dumpster, resides in a modern dumpster behind the women’s dorm at Huston-Tillotson University.

'Professor Dumpster' has turned a big trash bin into a tiny home

Dr. Jeff Wilson, an environmental science professor known as Professor Dumpster, is giving "the 1 percent" new meaning: He’s planning to try to live using 1 percent of the energy and water and creating 1 percent of the waste of the average American home — by living in a converted dumpster.

'Professor Dumpster' has turned a big trash bin into a tiny home

Vertical lunch: To increase food production, crowded Singapore looks up

A new super-efficient vertical farming system is helping increase food security and reduce the climate impact of food production for the 5 million residents of crowded Singapore.

Vertical lunch: To increase food production, crowded Singapore looks up
Bon Appétit's low-carbon food plan calls for putting vegetables at the center of the plate. Making the plate smaller cuts down on waste.

Cafeteria lunch: Industrial kitchens dish out climate-friendly cuisine

Food service companies serve millions of meals a day in the US in a process that's extremely wasteful and carbon-intensive. Now one company has set its sights on revolutionizing the industry.

Cafeteria lunch: Industrial kitchens dish out climate-friendly cuisine

South American Country Turning Coca-Cola Green

It's a hot summer day, and you're looking to grab something to quench that thirst? A lot of people reach for the iconic Coca-Cola. But in one Latin American country, that iconic label's turning green.

South American Country Turning Coca-Cola Green

Haute Cuisine: Spanish Farm Makes Bet on 'Bug Revolution'

In a warehouse in Spain, a French farmer is raising what she hopes will be the next big thing in French and European cooking: insects.

Haute Cuisine: Spanish Farm Makes Bet on 'Bug Revolution'

No-waste lunch: China's "Clean Your Plate" campaign

In China, where ordering more food than you can eat is seen as a status symbol,t a new grassroots "Clean Your Plate" campaign is starting to change the way people think and eat.

No-waste lunch: China's "Clean Your Plate" campaign

Fish Win: Maine About-Face Lets Alewives Return to Canada Border River

For the first time in nearly a quarter-century, Maine is letting alewives run free up the river that forms its border with New Brunswick.

Fish Win: Maine About-Face Lets Alewives Return to Canada Border River
An artist’'s rendering of a full-scale commercial low-input desert agriculture facility. Project’s designers say the concept should work in any low-altitude desert area near a large source of salt water.

Desert lunch: Coaxing climate-friendly food from the world's driest places

In Qatar, a team of visionaries has set out to prove that even in the world's most inhospitable places, sunlight, salt water and CO2 can be transformed into energy, fresh water and food.

Desert lunch: Coaxing climate-friendly food from the world's driest places
Amaranth seedlings being grown in southern Mexico’s Tehuacan valley. The plant's seeds are high in protein and its leaves are high in iron, vitamin C and calcium.

Alt staple lunch: Mexicans push return of an ancient grain

400 years after the Spanish banned it, amaranth is making a comeback in Mexico as a high-nutrition staple that's also resistant to climate change.

Alt staple lunch: Mexicans push return of an ancient grain