sustainability

Amazon Launches Climate Label to Help Customers Make Greener Choices

Amazon Launches Climate Label to Help Customers Make Greener Choices

The world’s largest online retailer is making it slightly easier for customer to make eco-conscious choices. Amazon announced Wednesday that approximately 25,000 products will receive a “Climate Pledge Friendly” designation to guide customers toward products that are helping the retail giant meet its commitment to be carbon neutral in 20 years, as Reuters reported. Amazon […]

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    Google and Facebook Announce New Climate Commitments

    Google and Facebook Announce New Climate Commitments

    Tech behemoths Google and Facebook have upped their respective pledges to the environment, joining the ranks of Apple and Microsoft. Earlier this year, Microsoft pledged to go carbon negative by 2030, meaning it will account for all the carbon it has ever produced and add enough mitigation to counteract its effect. Now Google is following […]

    How Would Population Decline Impact the Environment?

    How Would Population Decline Impact the Environment?

    By Ajit Niranjan Shortly before he shot dead 22 mostly Hispanic people in El Paso, Texas, a little over a year ago, a white supremacist wrote in his online manifesto: “If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can be more sustainable.” He was inspired by a terrorist in Christchurch, […]

    How to Save the Sea: Lessons From an Italian Fishing Community

    How to Save the Sea: Lessons From an Italian Fishing Community

    By Agostino Petroni When Cosimo Di Biasi, 66, decides it’s the right day to fish, he begins at 5 p.m. He drives 4 miles to the port of Torre Santa Sabina, boards Nonno Ugo, his 21-foot fiberglass boat, and navigates south for a half-hour to reach a marine reserve in Puglia, in southern Italy. Agostino […]

    The Lobstermen of Eastern Yucatán

    The Lobstermen of Eastern Yucatán

    By Agostino Petroni and Sandali Handagama José “Josh” Catzim Castillo, a 25-year-old lobster fisher, circles a hollow concrete box resting on the seafloor, just off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. He slips a snare into the box and shakes it. Three spiny lobsters, or langostas, shoot out and try to flee, but Castillo is […]

    Can Cities Go Zero-Waste? One Japanese Town Tried

    Can Cities Go Zero-Waste? One Japanese Town Tried

    By Olivia Sullivan One of the many unfortunate outcomes of the coronavirus pandemic has been the quick and obvious increase in single-use plastic products. After COVID-19 arrived in the United States, many grocery stores prohibited customers from using reusable bags, coffee shops banned reusable mugs, and takeout food with plastic forks and knives became the […]