Climate Anxiety: A Guide — and Simple Coping Strategies
While you want to care for the environment, you should also take care of yourself. Here’s your guide to climate anxiety, and eight simple coping strategies.
Stories on Sustainability
Sustainability sits at the heart of Unsustainable Magazine. This section brings together stories that explore how people, communities, and ecosystems adapt to a world in rapid transition. Here you’ll find reporting and reflections on climate change, ecological resilience, waste systems, energy futures, and the everyday choices that shape our collective impact.
Our aim isn’t just to document environmental challenges, but to examine how they intersect with justice, inequality, and lived experience. From new research on carbon emissions to local efforts to restore biodiversity, these articles connect the global and the personal, the structural and the immediate.
Whether you’re looking for clear explanations, in-depth analysis, or grounded ideas for creating change, the Sustainability category offers a wide-ranging view of the forces reshaping our planet — and the possibilities that still remain.
Feeding the World Sustainably: 10 Lessons From History
To stop food insecurity in its tracks without causing further harm to the environment, it’s critically important that we look at feeding the world sustainably.
How To Create A Permaculture Food Forest: Essential Guide
Other than creating a balanced ecosystem, a permaculture food forest serves its main purpose as a planned and strategic food source and place of serene beauty.
Global Recycling: The Environmental Impact and The Future
Preventing pollution and improving public health are only some of the benefits of global recycling. It also creates employment, saves money, and reduces waste.
Reduce E-Waste: Sustainability for Old, Functional Gadgets
Here are some eco-friendly things you can do to reduce e-waste, reduce your carbon footprint, and reduce the number of electronic devices being made.
Technoversal Leadership for Biodiversity and Climate
If we wish to change the destiny of our planet, we must change businesses. And if we want to transform businesses into this course, we must change leaders.
Humans and Animal Migration: A Complex and Interwoven Issue
Our impact on animal migration: Though it may be hard to imagine, even small changes to farmland and urban areas can have consequences for migratory animals.
How We’re Planning a (Nearly) Zero Waste Wedding
It can be the most wasteful day of our lives. Here’s how we’re planning a (nearly) zero waste wedding—and coping with whatever judgements come our way.
What is Regenerative Agriculture? A Comprehensive Guide
Why Regenerative Agriculture Can Benefit The Soil, Ecosystems & The Atmosphere
The Bandwagon Effect on Apple Products
Many consumers have experienced the bandwagon effect on Apple products, associating the brand with quality, innovation, universality, and fun.
How Data Science Helps Regenerative Agriculture
The agriculture sector is one of the primary forces for climate change. The solution to this problem is two things: regenerative agriculture and data science.
Vertical Farming: Potential to Provide Food Security Into The Future
Let’s start vertical farming, instead of horizontal. Let’s change where we grow things, using walls, pillars, and sides of buildings, including sidescrapers
Can Humanity Survive an Ecological Collapse?
The survival of humanity depends on them, but what happens when the world’s ecosystems weaken beyond repair?
Shoes for Biodiversity and Climate: Scientifically Designed
‘aspect climate projects’ is on a mission to inspire change in the footwear industry, and better shoes for biodiversity and the environment.
How Younger Generations Can Help Solve the E-waste Problem
This article will discuss the negative effects of e-waste and how younger generations can be more proactive about minimizing those effects.
Hazardous Waste Management: Ethics and Responsibities
We are living in a toxic world, and there are many things that we, and those in power, should be doing.
An Argument for Hydroponic Coffee
Coffee is also facing a decline in production, especially as a result of climate change. Hydroponic coffee may form a viable part of the solution.
Spread the Spirit of Sustainability: 5 Ways to Reduce Waste During the Holidays
It’s can be a wonderful time of the year, filled with celebration and merriness. Unfortunately, it’s also a time of trash.
A Sustainable Christmas: 7 Eco-Friendly Holiday Tips
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but lurking behind the magic is an unsettling reality that perpetually taints the joy of Christmas: overconsumption.
The Environmental Impacts of Asbestos
Exposure to asbestos can cause multiple negative health effects, but asbestos can also pollute the air, water, soil, and settle on different objects.
Architects As Sustainable Actionists
International architecture and design studio SOUR dedicated their Journal Issue 03 to the footprint created by architects, products, and our built environment.
The Ugly Truth of the Beauty Industry
The Beauty Industry has done a great deal of harm, both to the fellow creatures that inhabit our planet and to the fragile environment that sustains us all.
Green Halloween – 5 Tips to be Eco-Friendly and Sustainable
Green Halloween Guide: It is almost upon us, from pumpkin carving to trick-or-treating, yet amidst all the fun is a scary reality: waste, waste and more waste!
A Guide to Community Fridges in the UK and Around the World
How this food waste solution captured a country’s imagination and continues to spread across the globe
Biochar – Nature’s Secret that Eliminates Carbon Emissions
Biochar: It’s an ancient practice that can eliminate carbon emissions in a way that scientists are only now beginning to appreciate.
A Complete Guide To Sustainable Shaving
Sustainable shaving not only reduces waste and helps support small businesses, but it also saves you money and let’s face it, it just feels more luxurious!
Solar Energy Facts: A Clean and Sustainable Energy Source
With a great deal of investment, cooperation, education, and hard work, Solar Energy has come to contribute a significant amount to the electicity needs of our species.
Why and How to Hold Corporations More Accountable for the Fight Against Global Warming
A guide to holding corporations more accountable as mounting concerns about climate change and global warming reach their highest levels yet.
3 Ridiculously Easy Ways Every Gen Z Can Do to Fight Climate Change Now!
The world is officially heating up. Climate change doesn’t get more in face than wild fires ravaging Europe, heatwave baking the USA& Canada, droughts in California. What’s next? The Arctic melting? Oh wait, that’s happening too.
Plastic-Free Home: 11 Household Items to Swap for More Sustainable Alternatives
Tips for a Plastic-Free Home: If you’re looking for a great place to start, swap out these 11 household items for a more sustainable alternative.
10 Simple Ways to Reduce Everyday Pollution
These 10 Simple Ways Allow us to Consider our Potential Avenues of Everyday Pollution, and are Well Worthy of Contemplation if we’re Trying to Make a Positive Change
We Could Massively Slash Carbon Emissions By Improving Just 5% of Our Powerplants
If every country aimed to improve the efficiency of its 5%-10% most carbon-emitting powerplants, we’d be more likely to actually hit the 30-50% reductions target.
Environmental Hypocrisy – The H-Factor: A Personal Essay
A personal essay on the difficulty of trying to live in an environmentally progressive way, accepting imperfection, without losing all hope.
The Malawi Water Crisis: Initiatives Aim at Universal Access
To address the Malawi water crisis, a collaboration between the government and key NGOs is attempting to curb the disastrous lack of access to this resource that is affecting broad swathes of the country.
Tackling a Locust Plague in the 21st Century: A Sustainability Issue
In East Africa, experts are warning of new threat to food security, that of an unprecedented locust outbreak that began at the end of 2019.
Chitetezo Mbaula: When Women Take the Lead to Fight Deforestation
Chitetezo Mbaula: The innovative cooking stove that is sweeping across rural Malawi, and encouraging environmental conservation in its wake.