Selfies are great. Everyone likes taking selfies. Even plants! Well, at least one plant and ‘like’ is stretching it a bit since the plant doesn’t have to do anything but live. Even so, Pete has become the first selfie taking plant using his own waste energy. Way to go, Pete!
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Emissions are caused by many, many things in our everyday lives. Some more than others. One of the surprising places we’re creating them? Our household heating. In order to meat carbon goals, the UK needs to address gas use for home heating purposes.
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Something that would help out with emissions? Less people driving. Easier said than done though. People have places to be, things to do. To help them choose other transportation options, one suggestion is congestion pricing, a fee for driving in congested areas.
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The ocean is really important and it’s not having a great time with all the pollution and what not. But there are some ways that we can help the ocean and as it turns out, it’s not really based just in making better choices with trash. Helping the ocean calls for making it more attractive to people.
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We’ve talked about e-waste in the past. It’s one of the modern world’s growing issues as very little of it is recycled and much of it is plastic. Moving forward, corporations need to be mindful in providing avenues in which old devices and components can be easily recycled.
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Part of reducing waste is reusing what you can but not everything in your house is useful forever. That doesn’t mean it won’t bring joy to others. In that vein LEGO has made it easy to unload your old brick sets so that other children can play with them through the LEGO Replay website.
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Microplastics are everywhere. We talk about them all the time but it’s true, these tiny bits of plastic debris are being found in just about every body of water and on every bit of land, even extremely remote and uninhabited locations, and as a consequence of that, even in the food we eat.
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Part of being more sustainable is reusing and sometimes re-purposing the things we already have. Your options on what you can do with something increase greatly when you can refashion it into something else and knowing what to use to glue things together will help with that. Check out This to That for your answers.
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Cassette tapes are not exactly in use for the vast majority of people anymore but they sure are nostalgic. I mean, we still make MIX TAPES despite them . . . no longer being on tape. In any case, the iconic medium is in trouble due to a world wide shortage of gamma ferric oxide needed to make them.
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This isn’t a big step but Lush has moved to using cork instead of plastic creating what might be the first “carbon positive” packaging ever. The company has gone to great lengths to ensure that their packaging is emissions friendly and ethically sourced and despite the small size, still deserves a round of applause.
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Google has been spotlit for its commitments to the environment, particularly in it’s promise to manufacture its devices from recycled materials and a move to carbon neutral processes but for all that, the company is in bed with some dirty dealers that undermine much of their good works.
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We talk a lot about the companies that are contributing to the climate crisis but who are they? The Guardian has published a list of the top 20 companies that have contributed the most to the climate crisis. All put together they account for 20 percent of total emissions. Yikes!
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Bees are good for world. We need them so it’s best to protect the things that help them and it turns out that heather, a pretty purple flower, is stuffed full of a “medicine” that helps our winged friends fight off parasites. But heather is having a rough time of it due to disappearing habitat.
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So if you watched HBO’s Chernobyl, you might be interested in seeing the place where it all went wrong and good news for new tourists, you can now visit the control room. The area was previously considered too dangerous but now you can have a five minute look inside.
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With climate change a reality, what will the future look like on an urban level? This short story gives one hopeful vision of that future. Although the world wasn’t able to stop the changes our choices and practices have caused, there is some hope.
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