The fall is the best time to prepare gardens and yards for the next summer. A well-kept yard can keep your house cool in the hot months and warm when the rain and snow come. In this Earth911 Quiz, we’ll challenge your knowledge of home energy use and the ways…
Cooking for Compost: Thanksgiving
For the Thanksgiving edition of our Cooking for Compost series, we called on the award-winning chefs of Candle Cafe and Candle 79 to design a completely waste-free Thanksgiving meal especially for Earth911.com. Based in New York City, Candle 79 offers an upscale dining experience with an artful menu. While Candle…
See Just How Much Food You — Yes, You — Are Wasting
In 2012, we received some dismal news about food waste in the United States. A staggering 40 percent of food is wasted from farm to fork, according to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Suddenly, we were all running to our fridges to make soups from wilted vegetables…
Infographic: 8 Million Tons of Plastic Waste Enters Our Oceans Yearly
Eight million tons. That’s how much plastic waste enters our oceans every year. Where does it all end up? How does it affect our planet? This infographic from Waterlogic follows the plastic trail to the gigantic garbage patches that have accumulated across the major oceans of the world. Learn which…
How To Plan a Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner
Turkey for Thanksgiving? That’s sooo 1621! While carnivores and traditionalists may disagree, contemporary Thanksgiving dinners can consist of vegetarian, pescatrian, vegan, and even cheagan options (and, yes; the latter is a cheating vegan). The Pilgrims may not have had a Whole Foods or produce stand on every street corner; today,…
How Curbside Recycling Works
Few environmental lessons have taken hold as strongly in the United States as the imperative to recycle. For some people, recycling serves as a proxy for sustainability; a full recycling bin excusing any number of wasteful practices. But recycling is not the be-all-end-all solution for our environmental woes. The American…
Earth911 Podcast: Rockay Socks Combine Recycled Ocean Plastic With Reduced Water Usage
Rockay makes socks from ocean plastic with anti-odor characteristics that reduce the need to wash by five to 10 times. It’s a remarkable combination of recycling and water-use reduction that can make a big impact on an athlete’s environmental impact. Earth911 talks with Daniel Chabert, founder and CEO of Rockay….
The Best Electric Vehicles on the Market
There are more electric vehicles on the market than ever before. As more models go on sale, car shoppers have many styles and features to choose from. Advances in battery technology boost vehicle range and increasingly robust charging infrastructure are making electric cars more appealing than ever. Sales are on…
Earth911 Podcast, November 8, 2019: Starting a Career in Recycling — PNW Metal Recycling’s Sean Daoud
What’s the path to a career in recycling? Sean Daoud, Treasurer of PNW Metal Recycling Inc. in Portland, Oregon, talks with Earth911 about how he got involved recycling, what his job involves, and the work environment. If you want to help to save the world for a living, this episode…
Holiday Entertaining This Fall? Cork It!
Cork. It boasts itself as one of the top 10 rapidly renewable materials. Environmentally friendly, cork (harvested from oak trees) production is sustainable in that only the cork bark is harvested and the cork oak tree itself is not cut down. Cork is 100 percent recyclable and completely biodegradable, reducing waste in…