Dasani Water Will Now Be Sold In Aluminum Cans
Coca-Cola has announced that it will soon sell its bottled water, Dasani, in aluminum cans in an effort to help reduce its use of plastic and the waste created by plastic containers, according to Bloomberg: “Coke will start selling canned Dasani in the U.S. Northeast next month, with plans to expand the product to other […]
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Hemp Is The New Oak — America’s First Hemp ‘Wood’ Factory
When most people hear the word “hemp,” they automatically think of marijuana. But a new business venture in Kentucky is aiming to make hemp known as a sustainable alternative to wood from oak and other hardwood trees. A $5.8 million hemp wood plant was constructed in Murray, Kentucky, and will employ 25 full-time workers, according […]
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Scientists Call For Transition To Vegetarian Diets In Leaked Report
An alarming new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is calling for drastic changes the world needs to start making now in order to combat the climate crisis. Food waste and land use are among the top contributors to carbon emissions in our world today. In particular, our addiction to beef has […]
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San Francisco airport bans sale of plastic water bottles
San Francisco International Airport, one of the largest and busiest airports in the world, took a big step to fight the plastics crisis this week by officially banning the sale of plastic water bottles. Some of the biggest producers of plastic waste and carbon emissions are airports as tens of thousands of people throw away […]
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Report warns climate change is causing devastating and fatal consequences on our children and grandchildren NOW
A new report from the Global Health Alliance Australia in partnership with Monash University in Melbourne has some sobering news: Climate change is already causing death, malnutrition, and the stunting of child growth across the world. And the situation is only getting worse. According to The Guardian, Misha Coleman, one of the report’s authors, had […]
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Water runs dry in Zimbabwe as climate crisis brings more devastating drought to the region
When the climate gets hotter, more water evaporates and droughts are more common. As global temperatures rise due to uncontrolled climate change, water shortages are becoming a stark reality, especially in places like Zimbabwe in Africa. Zimbabwe is used to droughts, but because the climate crisis is making them worse and longer-lasting, the country’s water […]
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17 hotel brands to phase out plastic toiletry bottles
17 hotel brands under the InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) umbrella that currently use 200 million little plastic bottles of shampoo and conditioner in their rooms have decided to stop using them to cut back on waste. Single-use plastics are burying our world, polluting the environment and killing wildlife every day. In fact, the entire food […]
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Environmentalists seek legal rights for critically endangered jaguars in Argentina
In an emergency effort to protect the few remaining jaguars left in Argentina, environmentalist group Greenpeace has filed a lawsuit in the nation’s highest court seeking to give the big cats legal rights, including personhood. There are approximately around 250 jaguars living in Argentina and their numbers are only dropping as deforestation in the name […]
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Scientists call upon United Nations to designate environmental destruction a war crime
Scientists have written an open letter to the United Nations calling for them to designate environmental destruction a war crime for the first time. War is not only destructive to human beings and human settlements, it destroys the environment and kills wildlife as well. Therefore, environmental destruction rightfully should be a war crime because humans […]
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Congress is ignoring the climate crisis, so these Extinction Rebellion activists did something remarkable
Fed up with Congress conducting business as usual and dragging its feet as the climate crisis continues to worsen activists with the worldwide Extinction Rebellion movement did something that was sure to be attention-getting. They superglued themselves to doorways along the halls of the U.S. Capitol building Tuesday and called for lawmakers to declare a […]
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