Sustainable fishing farms in Ghana, air-cleaning carpets and software that operate trains to save on energy. These are just some of the surprising headlines from our case study Sustainia100 that EcoWatch was among the first to report on last week. Over the last six months, we have researched more than 900 innovations, technologies and projects […]
Editor’s note: We’ll look at various aspects of the Sustainia100 all week. This is part one in a series of six. Here are parts two, three, four, five and six. This year’s Sustainia100 selection committee got its hands and eyes on plenty of good news before it even crafted its guide on the leading sustainability cases and businesses around the planet. From energy to fashion, […]
It took two weeks, but now it’s official—Ohio is the nation’s first state to roll back renewable energy standards. After the state House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 310 in May, Gov. John Kasich signature was all that was missing to ensure Ohio’s clean-energy fall from grace. The standards—first passed in 2008 and reauthorized two […]
The 5 Gyres Institute helped expose the presence of microbeads in some of the cosmetic products we use every day, influence change amongst corporations and legislators. Now, the group wants to see how much plastic is on our ocean floors. A group from the Institute set sail this week for the North Atlantic Subtropical gyre and […]
Do you have an affinity for vintage travel posters, the bold, graphic kind with silhouetted palm trees and snow capped mountains? Do you enjoy national parks and monuments? I know I do. So it’s a pleasant surprise to discover the Creative Action Network’s (CAN) See America crowdsourced art campaign. Original See America posters from the […]
On Friday, May 30, another coal-related chemical spill polluted a public waterway in Central Appalachia, killing hundreds of fish and alarming local residents. The chemical spill happened at a Cumberland Coal Company prep plant in Harlan County, KY. This time, the spill was not of coal slurry or a coal-washing chemical, but of a flocculant—a type of compound usually used […]
Jolynn Minnaar had no intention of making a documentary exposing the evils of fracking. In fact, the Karoo, South Africa native viewed the arrival of a shale gas extraction industry as an exciting opportunity for development and employment in home district. Her opinion changed after visiting the U.S. There, she learned about the fires, dark […]
President Barack Obama tried to curb pollution this week as opposed to starting an industry war, but that’s not how some in the media viewed the proposal. “Obamacare for Air” quickly became the catchphrase for opposers of the carbon plan earlier this week, but another one is quickly gaining ground—Obama’s war on coal. Stephen Colbert […]
Quick—how much food, paper and plastic have you thrown in the garbage the past two years? It’s a question you likely can’t answer, but whatever the amount, it will certainly exceed the output of Justin Vrany and his Chicago café, Sandwich Me In. Vrany estimates that an average restaurant dumps eight gallons of trash in […]
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