Solar panels are, well, panels but what if they were more like fabric? A new type of solar sheet developed by the company, Solivus, is thin, flexible and can be attached to just about anything giving a variety of structures their own renewable energy option without major installation needed.
One of the ways that we can capture carbon from the air is by planting more trees. They do the job naturally all while giving us delicious oxygen. They’re great! It’s not new information that planting trees will help but many people have asked, how many do we need? Well, turns out the answer is, kind of a lot.
Microsoft has pledged to remove all carbon that it has put into the environment as a company by the year 2050. Again, all the carbon they have created since 1975. That’s 45 years worth of carbon that they are pledging to pull out of the air plus ending their own current output.
Trees are important in turning the tide on climate change but you can’t plant them everywhere. Specifically you are limited in what you can plant in an urban environment given all of the buildings and asphalts and what not. Enter City Trees, the towers of moss that want to clean the air up.
Electric cars are one of the solutions to cutting down on the amount of emissions and in Norway, they’re making real headway. So many people are driving electric now that gas stations are actually becoming a thing of the past, replaced by electric charging stations.
The wildfires in Australia have been heartbreaking. Many people have lost their homes and some species may never recover from the losses that they incurred during the tragedy. Although the fires were caused primarily by natural weather patterns, the role that man made climate change played cannot be ignored.
With many companies moving to remove plastic from their shops and businesses, some groups are concerned that the alternatives may harm the environment, just in different ways. They argue that it’s six in one hand and a half dozen in the other, ditching plastic may just be trading for a less visible problem.
The world is in trouble. Although much of the eco-problems we’re dealing with, the big contributors to climate change and pollution are at the feet of corporations, that doesn’t mean that we, the individuals of the world, shouldn’t do anything at all to try and make things better. This article has five pretty simple things you can start or think about starting this year.
