People have been coming down pretty hard on livestock since the world has been catching up on the fact that we need to make changes to avoid a climate catastrophe. Well, the news for herd animals isn’t getting better as scientists begin calling for “peak meat” to be found this decade.
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If you buy clothing online, you’ve probably, at least once, picked up multiple sizes in one item to check the fit and sent the ones that didn’t work out back to the store. That’s fine right? Well, turns out when you do that chances are those items go right into the dumpster rather than back into circulation.
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A new fund is in the works to help make shipping carbon neutral. The group behind it is planning on raising $5bn for it by taxing every ton of fuel that ships use, which as it turns out, is a pretty substantial amount. The hope is that this will move the industry towards a sustainable future.
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Share office supplies? Spend too much of your time wondering around trying to find who has run off with the shared supplies? Waste no more with Got-it, the tags that make it possible to track the most mundane of office supplies and tools all over the building.
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Climate change is going to affect everyone, all over the world but Africa will feel many of its changes particularly hard. A number of factors will make this coming reality of the climate very hard for the continent and although not every country will be hit the same way, forecasts suggest that they will all bear the burden of it.
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Fast fashion is terrible for the environment. Everyone needs clothing but we don’t need to all rely on businesses that sell mostly synthetic fibers with styles meant only to last a season. Instead, check out the crown jewels of the slow fiber movement, flax and hemp.
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When we think of climate change we usually think of glaciers melting, which they do! But there’s another issue that probably effects more people more readily: Melting permafrost. This change can, and has in some places, drastically alter the landscape and leave everything built on it an unstable mess.
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Are cites really bad for the environment? Should we all be living in the country, spaced out? Well, as it turns out, no. Although there are many reasons why, turns out living in the city reduces the individual carbon footprint.
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Good news! The Ocean Cleanup’s device meant to clean up the ocean actually works! The first of the collected garbage has been successfully hauled back to shore after its successful test run. The company’s next steps are fortifying the device to handle the real deal garbage patch and figure out what to do with all that trash, both of which are harder than they seem.
Read MoreBugs have generally not been something that people want but the Earth needs them for a variety of reason and with the loss of green spaces and more pesticides, we’re losing these six and more legged creatures. You can help give them a home with some tweaks to your own garden.
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Did you know that Denmark got 41% of it’s energy from wind power last year? That’s almost half! And the highest level in Europe. But they’re not content with just that, they want to drop their emissions down even further in the next ten years with carbon neutrality achieved in the next 20. and to that end, they have plans to build artificial islands surrounded by off shore turbines to generate even more power.
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Modern problems call for modern solutions and climate change is a modern problem. Some would say the largest of modern problems so figuring out how to survive a world with it calls for drastic changes in how we do things. On Seychelles, a small east African Island, they’ve taken a radical approach.
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All the stuff we have in our lives has to go somewhere. Eventually, no matter how sturdy and well made it is, it will end up in the trash and given that cold hard reality, we need think more about our stuff. The second thing we need to realize is, nobody wants your stuff and these are the big ideas behind Secondhand by Adam Minter.
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In case you didn’t know, in areas where there is available tap water, bottling water for sale is not an essential public service. You probably already assumed that but that didn’t keep Nestle from trying to be listed as one in their ongoing attempts to privatize water all over the United States.
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Memes are a form of communication. Even if you don’t personally get them or understand only a subset of them, that doesn’t change the fact that the joke format is one that is used to communicate a wide range of expressions. The downside is that they’re not accessible. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have trained a system that can classify memes with 92% accuracy making the accessible for sight impaired individuals.
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