Tragically, Plastic Waste Smells Like Dinner to Hungry Sea Turtles
It has long been said that sea turtles eat plastic bags because they look like jellyfish. Matthew Savoca, a doctoral student in Ecology at the University of California Davis, wasn’t…
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A collection of articles highlighting ways that pollution affects all living things and articles sharing innovative alternatives in a post-petroleum world.
Now for Some Good News About the Environment!
While we want to engage with our readers about issues affecting the environment, we worry that a never-ending stream of dire news makes it seem like meaningful change is impossible….
Truly Biodegradable Straws and Cutlery Made From Avocado Pits
An innovative company looks to end plastic pollution by using a waste product that was, until now, burned in landfills by the millions of pounds every year. What are we…
Put These Glasses On When You Wake Up In The Morning And Smell The Coffee!
We love sharing stories about people making everyday products with sustainable alternatives to plastic. If you are thinking about some new sunglasses or prescription frames and you love coffee, then…
Bill Gates Secretly Funded Solar Project that Could End Dependence on Fossil Fuels
Anyone who has tried to use the glut of solar powered yard decorations that dot the aisles of lawn and garden stores knows you’re lucky if they glow past 9…
China is Trashing the Ocean But We’ve All Helped
There are 10 rivers in the world that carry 93% of trash into the world’s oceans. “The Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus and Ganges Delta in Asia, and…
Can You Guess Who Is The World’s Top Corporate Plastic Polluter?
Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) is a global movement working to stop plastic pollution. They are adding teeth to the concept of volunteer cleanups by transforming cleanup participants into citizen…
Could Fracking Be Responsible for What Residents Believe Is A Spike in Childhood Cancer in Pennsylvania?
Update: “The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office filed 15 criminal charges against Cabot Oil & Gas Corp, nine of them felonies. Cabot has not yet entered a plea.” – USA Today,…
Bottled Water: What the FDA Should Have Told You About Companies that Flunked Water Standards
In an eye-opening article, Consumer Reports (CR), the independent consumer advocacy and testing organization has taken on problems with the largely self-policing nature of the bottled water industry, a lack…
In 1970, a Computer Model at MIT Started Crunching Numbers to Predict When Civilization Will Collapse
The 50-year anniversary of a scary data analysis project is upon us. In 1970, an international team of researchers at MIT began a project using the most cutting-edge computer…
