How Electric Trucks and Charging Infrastructure Reduce Urban Pollution
Electric trucks can reduce urban exhaust pollution and noise, but reliable charging and careful fleet planning are essential to making the transition work.
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Septic Sludge, and the Overlooked Link in the Waste Loop
Septic sludge is an overlooked part of the waste cycle, connecting rural households to treatment plants, land application, landfills, and incineration. This article examines how septage can provide nutrients and energy through biosolids recovery, while raising concerns about PFAS, microplastics, and pathogens. Better pumping, disposal transparency, contaminant testing, and resource recovery are essential for sustainable sanitation.
Why “Flushing” Old Medicines Is a Disaster for Waterways—Better Disposal Alternatives for Everyone
When getting ride of old medicines, protect our environment and waterways by utilizing proper methods of disposal.
Closing the Gap in Beverage Packaging Recovery
Learn why recyclable beverage packaging can still end up in landfills and how proper depackaging, processing, and recovery can help close the gap.
How Businesses Can Manage Used Oil Responsibly
Learn how businesses can store, collect and recycle used oil safely while reducing pollution, waste and demand for virgin lubricants.
Solar on Superstores: The Empty Rooftops Hiding in Plain Sight
Putting solar on superstores is great for everyone. It’s beneficial for businesses, electricity customers, the grid, and the environment.
The Heat Pump: Exploring the Environmental Advantages
The greatest advantages of heat pumps are that they save consumers money while also creating a safer, more comfortable home and protecting the environment.
Are Energy-Efficient Homes Enough to Reduce Climate Change?
Can energy-efficient homes alone make a significant impact on reducing the planet’s carbon footprint? Evelyn Long breaks down the facts and explores in detail.
Sustainable Real Estate Development: Practices, Benefits, and Global Examples
Sustainable real estate development reduces environmental impact, lowers operating costs, and creates healthier homes, buildings, and communities.
5 Red Flags to Consider When Buying ‘Sustainable’ Jewelry
Sustainable jewelry brands have clear ethical practices that benefit people and the planet. Avoid these five red flags to find genuine sustainable brands.
Impacts of Gas Stoves on the Environment and Human Health
Emerging studies on the environmental and human health impacts of gas stoves have caused some concern, with bans now being discussed. Let’s take a closer look.
Fine Particulate Pollution in Europe – A Dire Situation
It’s an issue along the lines of “breathe the air and die prematurely.” There’s a serious problem around fine particulate pollution in Europe. Let’s discuss.
How Companies Can Cut Scope 3 Emissions Honestly
Scope 3 emissions are hard to cut and easy to misrepresent. Here’s how companies can act credibly across their supply chains.
Breaking the Copper Mining Cycle: Why Fiber-Based Networks Matter
The mounting environmental cost of digital connectivity underscores the urgent ecological need to transition from copper to fiber infrastructure.
How Early Environmental Review Can Support More Responsible Development
How early environmental review can reduce risk, improve site decisions, and support more responsible development from the start.
Does Rust Formation Damage the Environment?
The development of rust poses multiple environmental challenges despite its perception as a mere unsightly annoyance. Let’s look at the details.
The Sustainable Approach to Chemical Risk Assessments
Chemical risk assessments protect humans from dangerous exposure and support public health. Let’s explore the controversies and what to look for in the future.
After 16 Years, DOE Walks Away From Yucca Mountain
The Great Pivot: After 16 Years, DOE Quietly Abandons Yucca Mountain and Starts Fresh
Biofuels: Environmental Pros and Cons
Biofuels can cut fossil fuel use, but their environmental impact depends on land, feedstocks, and scale. Here are the key pros and cons.
The Hidden Waste Systems of Laboratories
Labs consume large amounts of energy and generate waste streams that cannot simply be dropped into ordinary recycling systems.
When Is a Moped Actually a Lower-Impact Choice?
A petrol moped is not guilt-free, but for some short trips it can be a lower-impact choice than driving a larger car. Here is the honest trade-off.
The Evolution of Sustainable Flexible Packaging
Sustainable flexible packaging depends on more than materials alone. Smarter machinery can cut scrap, reduce energy waste, and support circular design goals.
Sustainable Aquaculture in Tribal-Corporate Collaboration
Pacific Seafood and the Colville Confederated Tribes have developed a steelhead farming operation that bridges environmental responsibility with economics.
EV Charging Stations: Wildflower Surrounds & Biodiversity
EV charging stations with wildflower plots can improve the environmental impact of these roadside stations and help offset the negatives. Let’s discuss.
Healthier Indoor Air Without the Hype
Indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor air. Here’s a practical, low-drama guide to ventilation, moisture control, filtration, and safer habits.
Who Benefits From Louisiana’s Mineral Wealth?
Louisiana mineral rights shape land use, public revenue, and local risk. Here’s how to understand the issue through a sustainability lens.
Sustainable Barrier Materials: What Actually Works
A practical guide to barrier packaging: coatings, films, paper, and bioplastics—what’s recyclable, what’s compostable, and what’s greenwash.
Carbon Offsetting 2.0: Fighting Climate and Inequality
Seeing more examples of renewable energy initiatives created by marginalized communities may inspire you to enact similar, empowering change where you live.
Commercial Recycling: The Problems and Potential Solutions
If companies are informed and governments create regulations, the world can work together to create a better commercial recycling system, to the benefit of all.
The Industries That Will Benefit Most From Electric Cars
Whilst there is no denying the positive impact that electric cars have on the environment, they also benefit various industries, to profit and productivity.
Right to Repair Phones: Repair vs Replace Guide
What phone right to repair really means, what blocks repairs, how to decide repair vs replace, and practical steps to cut e-waste and cost.
Can the Kasiya Rutile-Graphite Discovery Reduce Inequality?
Kasiya’s rutile and graphite discovery brings hope for jobs and services—but also raises concerns about land loss, pollution, and fair benefits.
Carbon-Conscious Corporations: Real Pathways to Net Zero
How carbon-conscious corporations pursue net zero in practice — emissions scopes, credible targets, risks, and real-world progress.
Solar Power in Developing Countries: What Works
Solar is expanding fast in developing countries, but outcomes depend on financing, maintenance, and the right model: grid, mini-grid, or solar home systems.
A Detailed Guide to the Carbon Emissions in Construction
The World Green Building Council is hoping, by 2030, to reduce embodied carbon emissions in construction by 40% and reach net-zero status in 2050.
Inside Auroville’s Living Laboratory of Sustainable Building
Auroville, founded in 1968 spanning parts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, India, was conceived as an experimental township on what was once a barren plateau.