Made From Scratch: The Virgin Materials Price Tag on Four Everyday Products
It takes roughly 2,700 liters of water to make a single cotton t-shirt, about the...
Good, Better, Best — Eliminating Plastic Waste
This is the second in a series of articles about reducing the amount of the...
Sustainability In Your Ear: Kendra MacDonald Steers to the Blue Economy at Canada’s Ocean Supercluster
The ocean produces about half the oxygen we breathe, absorbs roughly 30% of the carbon...
The Circular Economy Has a Blind Spot: The Stuff That Grows Back
A new Ellen MacArthur Foundation report argues that the materials we can actually regrow, including...
Climate Change Is Stealing Our Sleep — and the Economic Impact Could Reach the Trillions
By the end of this century, hotter nights could cost the average person roughly 16...
Earth911 Inspiration: A Thousand Forests in One Acorn
Philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson is the source of today’s inspiration. In his essay...
Yard Waste: Composting’s Success Story With a Methane Asterisk
In 1990, American landfills buried about 25 million tons of grass, leaves, and branches a...
Earth Action: Ride a Bike for Your Health and the Planet’s
Earth911’s Earth Action series shares one practical step at a time to invest in the...