From squash skulls to pumpkin owls, there’s no end to the creations you can make to celebrate Halloween. But that excitement quickly fades as you watch the pumpkin that took you forever to carve wither away on your front porch. It’s inevitable that your pumpkins will rot, but we’ve rounded up some tips that’ll keep […]

Fall is right around the corner! We have a beautiful front porch layout that will be the envy of your street and keep your home festive through the season! You’ll Need:  Orange Wrapping Paper Gold Glitter Paper Pumpkins Ruler Masking Tape Craft Knife Spray Glue Glitter Leaf Branches (around the height of your door) Picture […]

A team of scientists and engineers will on Saturday begin an ambitious cleanup of plastics in the Pacific Ocean targeting a stretch of water three times the size of France known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A 600m-long floating barrier will be launched off the coast of San Francisco and, powered by currents, waves […]

Hundreds of thousand of people in more than 90 countries are expected to take part in demonstrations this weekend to protest about the failure of politicians to tackle the global environmental crisis. Organisers say more than 800 events – from marches to street theatre, acts of civil disobedience to mini festivals – will take place […]

They’re the 10 common things that muck up recycling for everybody. We asked professionals: A single lithium battery can burn down a recycling plant. Plastic bags clog machinery. Garden hoses and electric cords do the same. And all of the above contaminates the output of scrap paper and plastic, driving down what that scrap is worth. Bottom line? Take your recycling rejects to an official “drop-off” […]

Residents of Istanbul will now be able to use public transport for free in exchange of empty plastic bottles and cans, the mayor said Friday. Mevlut Uysal announced a new recycling project at a news conference in Istanbul where people will receive free credit on their passenger cards (Istanbul kart) in exchange of bottles and […]

Governments have taken the first steps on a path that may lead to the creation of a global environment treaty. Plastics, climate change and other environmental problems will be discussed as the UN takes stock of humanity’s failure to protect the systems that sustain it. At a meeting in New York this week, UN general […]

It’s rare that we write about solar farms without somebody complaining about the loss of agricultural land or natural habitat. But a growing number of solar installations are seeking to combine energy production with natural ecosystem enhancement and/or food production. Now Fast Company has a cool profile of Eagle Point ‘solar apiary’ in Oregon, which […]

A few years ago, someone snuck into the London Underground and plastered several hundred guerilla posters over ads. The posters read things like “Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed … It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs for […]

Council officials will search through residents’ rubbish and shame lazy recyclers with a garish sticker on their wheelie bins, under a new WA government waste program. The stickers, of yellow, green or red hands pointing downwards, may be placed on the bins of people who sort waste into the wrong bins. Launched on Thursday, the […]