Pineapple, Banana & Coconut: Sustainable Fabrics – Out of the Kitchen and Into the Closet
Banana, pineapple, and coconut might make you think of a fruit salad; yet all three plants are now being used to make durable and sustainable fabrics.
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Are Biofuels Our Future?
Biofuels are a hot topic amongst those in the know at the moment, especially as they offer a more sustainable and carbon-neutral alternative to traditional fuels.
Uneako: An Innovative Approach to Pollution and Poverty
Pollution and poverty—two critical issues, affecting people the world over, that Uneako founders Ankit and Atul Tripathi are taking steps to address.
5 Covid-19 Lessons for Effective Climate Change Response
We can’t put climate change on hold while we deal with a pandemic. But we can listen to Covid-19’s message and take climate action before it gets worse.
Infographic: Electric vs. Fuel Cell Cars: Which One Is The Future of Green Motoring?
The Electric Car and the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car are two options that currently show the best promise at helping avoid climatic disaster.
Ollie Langridge
His 100-day climate vigil may not have effected the original goal, but Ollie Langridge is grateful for small victories. He discusses his experience, and where to go from here.
10 Things You Can Do to Decrease Your Carbon Footprint
While we wait for governments, car companies, and power providers to create the infrastructure to allow us all to aim at living zero net carbon lives.
An Open Letter: Please, Don’t Talk to Me About Plastic Bags
The utter tragedy of the situation is that we’ve already solved climate collapse, we know exactly what we should do, but people, countries, corporations, vested interests and governments won’t do it.
China dashes hopes of raising its climate ambition at UN climate summit
China decided against raising its climate ambition at the UN climate action summit in New York; instead, it did leant on nature-based solutions.
Changing Tack
A storm of our own design bears down upon us.
Now, the time has more than come for us to ask, not what the world can do for us, but what we can do for the world.
From The Editor, August 2019
Three months in, and things are looking grim. Fires in the Arctic and Amazon, worsening of the climate problem, the Fall Armyworm invasion, and more.
How To Go Carbon Neutral
If we hope to avoid the impending climatic disaster, carbon neutrality should be the goal of everyone, but is net-zero carbon emissions truly achievable?
Using Recycled Paper Is Not Just About Saving Trees
Recycled paper can save the Earth, and in developed countries it’s very easy to purchase, yet not nearly enough people are making the switch.
Capitalism and The Advent of Garbage
Could the end of capitalism pave the way from a reduction in our creation of garbage, towards a truly sustainable future?
Climate Change: Where Are We Now?
As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change.
Addressing Climate Change: The Benefits of Acting Now, Rather than Later
Climate change is essentially irreversible on human timescales; whatever changes are induced by our emission of CO2 into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, if not millenia.
An Open Letter to the U.S. Government
Climate Policy: It may turn out to be too little, too late, or it may buy us the time we need to switch over to net zero emissions economies in time to spare the world exceptionally catastrophic climate change.
Planetary Boundaries, Food and Humanity
Due to the complex interaction between human activities and the ecosystem, humanity’s food system is facing severe threats.
