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  • How to make a green getaway with an environmentally friendly holiday

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    By Christopher Thompson There are many simple steps to help green tourism without limiting your horizons, says Thomas Breathnach Green tourism, eco-friendly, carbon-footprints. They’re the travel buzzwords of our generation. However, while many cultural campaigns tend to trend and fade, there’s a real stand-out factor when it comes to the sustainable travel movement. The truth […]

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  • Turns Out You Can Fall 70 Feet Into Kīlauea Volcano and Survive

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    By Ryan Johnson Not that you should follow this man’s lead. One year ago, the Hawaiian volcano Kīlauea began erupting and continued for several months, eventually destroying hundreds of homes, displacing thousands of citizens, closing national parks, creating new islands, and changing Hawaii’s coastline. When all was said and done, Kīlauea’s eruption was the worst […]

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  • WHAT IS THE WORLD’S NUMBER 1 PLASTIC POLLUTANT?

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    By Christopher Thompson While banning or reducing the use of plastic bags and straws has become a headline cause for brands, governments and environmental activists in recent years, cigarette butts are actually the most littered waste stream on the planet. With some six trillion butts polluting the Earth each year, smoking isn’t just a public […]

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  • Climate Change Is Affecting Coffee… In a Bad Way

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    By Ryan Johnson Scientists from the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, in the UK, published a study that coffee is officially considered endangered, as 60 percent of the 124 known species in the world are threatened with extinction because of deforestation, diseases, and climate change. The majority of the wild coffee species globally are found in […]

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  • McDonald’s lovers are using plastic coffee lids to avoid paper straws

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    By Christopher Thompson We use plastic every day for bags, straws and bottles, but have you ever thought about what happens after you throw it away? Plastic trash takes decades to biodegrade, breaking into tiny particles called microplastics, which eventually end up in the ocean. Sea creatures such as turtles, fish and whales then digest […]

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  • Planning A Green Vacation

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    By Ryan Johnson Those who care about the future of our planet strive to be environmentally conscious in our daily lives. We do our best to recycle, conserve water and electricity, choose natural and locally grown products and make good transportation choices. If we can think about our environmental impact every day, there’s no reason […]

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  • 6 Eco-Friendly Products That You Should Be Using In 2019

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    Contribute towards sustainability by altering your life with these eco-friendly products. Let’s face the reality – when you go to a store to buy a new shampoo or any cleaning supplies for your house, the environment may not be one of the topmost deciding factors while purchasing the product. Right? However, the responsibility of saving […]

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  • Nations meet in Geneva to regulate plastic waste trade

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    By Christopher Thompson Officials from over 180 states have gathered in Geneva to discuss how to better manage the global trade in recyclable plastic. Marco Buletti, a Swiss government environment specialist, is confident that a solution is within reach. State parties to the Basel Conventionexternal link, the main global treaty regulating the trans-national movement of hazardous waste, are in the […]

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  • Biodiversity crisis is about to put humanity at risk, UN scientists to warn

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    By Ryan Johnson ‘We are in trouble if we don’t act,’ say experts, with up to 1m species at risk of annihilation The world’s leading scientists will warn the planet’s life-support systems are approaching a danger zone for humanity when they release the results of the most comprehensive study of life on Earth ever undertaken. […]

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  • Climate change is a threat, but it could be an economic boon. We just took the first step.

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    By Ryan Johnson The climate challenge is a chance for transformative growth on a scale with the industrial and information revolutions. America should lead the way. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. We have a decade to figure out how to reverse global warming if we ever want to ensure a habitable […]

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