Heading up coffee purchasing at Equator Coffees, a company focused on quality, sustainability, and social responsibility, I often field the question, “What coffee should I buy to ensure the farmers are getting a fair deal?” This sort of question could easily expand into a dissertation about the complexities of commodities…
Whether or not you are concerned about the safety and nutritional effects of pesticide use on food crops, it is hard to ignore the environmental impacts. Buying organic foods is an important step in avoiding pesticides, but when it comes to packaged foods, organic versions are not always available. Ideally,…
Featured product: organicgirl good clean greens are delivered in 5 oz., 10 oz., and 16 oz. plastic #1 clamshell containers. Recycling Steps If your curbside program accepts #1 plastic clamshells: Wash the clamshell, removing any organic material. You can soak labels to remove the paper and leave the remaining adhesive…
Listen to “Earth911 Podcast: Meet Dorie Morales, Publisher of Green Living Magazine Arizona” on Spreaker. Every region has its unique sustainable living challenges. Earth911 talks with Dorie Morales, publisher of Green Living magazine based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The desert region last year broke records last year with 16 days and…
It’s easy to think of recycling only on a local level, such as what goes in the household recycling bin or when is the next community e-waste recycling day. But the founders of Global Recycling Day believe that recycling is a global issue. Global Recycling Day (GRD), which falls on…
Technological advances have transformed the solar energy industry in recent years. Solar panels are significantly more efficient, producing more power in the same amount of space. Meanwhile, prices continue to fall, reducing the cost of solar electricity. But with the introduction of new technologies comes uncertainty. Which solar panels are…
Paul Hawken’s important book Drawdown is a blueprint for reducing humanity’s carbon footprint. Did you know that restoring 751 million acres of forest that have been cut down in the past few decades would remove 61.2 gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2050? This land is already abandoned and degraded,…
Grocers Support Ditching Single-use Plastic Bags Walmart, Target, and CVS announced a partnership with Closed Loop Partners to develop a sustainable alternative to the ubiquitous single-use Plastic #4 shopping bag. The group will put up a $15 million investment to support companies’ identification and funding that offer viable solutions. The…
Every day of your life, across everything you do and buy, you contribute to rising greenhouse gas emissions. Now, you can track the impact of all that activity — the stuff you buy, the places you go — to understand your carbon footprint. There are many carbon footprint calculators available….
Spend a few minutes cleaning out your garage or the junk drawer, and you’re bound to find one or two power or extension cords you no longer use. Now, obviously, if these cords are still usable, you can donate them so someone else can use them. But if they no…
