Globally, we are consuming resources faster than the Earth can replenish them. If we think of these resources — such as timber, water, and clean air — like an allowance, then we spent our allotment for 2019 on July 29. We are over-fishing, extracting, mining, polluting, depleting, and harvesting resources…
Seniors: Advice for Maintaining Your Eco-Friendly Habits
The younger generation has the energy to spearhead eco-friendly movements, buy carefully selected eco-friendly products and food, and speak out about environmentally friendly corporations they support. Seniors who rely on others for help, or who live in assisted living facilities, may not have that freedom. If you’re finding it harder…
Bring Your Outdoor Garden Inside (Yes, It’s Physically Possible)
Before you put your garden and landscaping waste in the compost bin, rethink what you’re tossing away. There are lots of creative ways that you can bring bits of your outdoor garden inside. Here are just a few suggestions for inexpensive and easy projects that use leftover herbs, flowers, twigs,…
Earth911 Podcast, Sept. 23, 2019: CBD Sustainability, Solar Installation Contracts, & Indoor Vertical Gardens
Following the rapid rise of CBD-based products, Earth911 looks at the environmental footprint of the non-psychoactive product of hemp and cannabis plants. We also walk you through the steps to a successful home solar installation contract and explore the opportunity to green your interior with vertical gardens. Join Evelyn Fielding-Lopez,…
Earth911 Podcast: Global Thermostat’s Graciela Chichilnisky on Distributed Carbon Capture Economies
Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky, co-founder and CEO of Global Thermostat, pioneered climate change policy and sustainable development planning, participating in the development of the Kyoto Protocol and as lead U.S. author for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and guidelines. An economist and mathematician, she recognized early the…
Earth911 Quiz #72: Are There Really Unrecyclable Materials?
In the wake of bans on U.S. exports of contaminated recyclables, many U.S. recycling programs have cut back or eliminated entire categories of recyclable materials that they accept. The reasons are often economic, it’s simply not as profitable to recycle the material as before, because China paid for boatloads of…
Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden
Mulch is any material you use to cover bare soil in a landscape. But mulching correctly — that is, in a sustainable manner that benefits the plants growing in your garden — can be confusing. Unlike soil amendments, you should not mix mulches into the soil. Instead, layer mulch over…
Hydroflourocarbons: Super Greenhouse Gas in Your Kitchen & Bathroom
Making changes to heal the hole in the ozone layer that developed over Antarctica in the 1980s is one of the great achievements of the past quarter-century. Humans paid attention to the growing threat of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), responded with global policy, and the ozone layer has partially recovered. But American…
Call for Climate Restoration Emergency Action
Join Forces To Ensure the Survival & Flourishing of Humanity You might not have heard it put in these terms, but we humans are on the verge of polluting ourselves out of existence. To learn why, take time on September 17 to watch the Global Climate Restoration Forum, which precedes…
Earth911 Innovator Interview: World Centric’s Mark Marrinozi on the Battle to End Polystyrene
World Centric, a 15-year-old Rohnert Park, Calif.-based sustainability advocacy and compostable food packaging Benefit corporation, is calling for the end of polystyrene use in food packaging. Mark Marrinozi, vice president of marketing at World Centric, joins Earth911’s Mitch Ratcliffe to discuss the use of polystyrene, how World Centric’s line of…