We need not look any further than the devastating wildfires in California, Australia, Alaska, and the Amazon Rain Forest in South America, starting earlier each year, lasting longer, and increasing in size. Each year is worse than the year before, making history as bigger than the year before...
pipeline protests have been central to the climate movement in the U.S. But they’ve always been about more than just the climate -- they’ve also been a battle for Indigenous rights, demanding that Native American people and Tribes should have a say over what happens in their historic ter...
Jessica Fanzo:It’s one thing to say that food is important for survival and we need it for our human health. But so much happens before food comes to the plate and before we’re able to share a meal with each other. The global food system is so b...
equivalent to seven National Hockey League rinks each minute, in part to meet demand for tissue products in the United States.” Long story short, if you want to become part of this solution, looking for alternatives would be the way to...
and engage the corporate and civil society sectors behind a shared vision of sustainable production. Without a dramatic shift in practices, key ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest that are at a tipping point will collapse, creating massive social, economic and environmental conseque...
Deforestation happens because of population growth and increasing agricultural and industrial demands; trees are cut down to make room for new developments. Why does it matter if trees are planted or cut down? Trees provide us with wood, fuel, food, medicine, latex and other products used in ...
Use a Bluetooth headset – if you need privacy for your conversation, consider using a Bluetooth headset, rather than holding the phone up to your ear. While the Bluetooth also produces EMF, it is at a much lower level than that of the phone itself. Wired headphones eliminate the EMF that...
A historical change is taking place in middle-school education Teachers are being asked to answer as never before for how well they serve their students It has become as common in middle schools for students to grade teachers as for teachers to grade stu
If you don’t continue to search, because once you have them, life becomes so much easier to live, no matter what happens. I have been through pretty rough patches and I dare say, without my friends I would not have made it. Friendships need lots of energy and patience to maintain ...
Topher White spends so much time walking in the forest and thinking about how quickly we're losing it.The engineer is determined to stop global deforestation.Founder of the San Francisco-based non-profit Rainforest Connection,White has developed a small but clever strategy:using old cell phones ...