According to a new study from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, one in four American adults owns an e-reader or tablet today. As people increasingly gravitate toward digital ink, many in the environmental sector are watching and waiting to see how this trend will influence paper production and deforestation activities native to the publishing industry. Read More
With anxiety rising as quickly and dramatically as wind speeds and water lines along the Eastern Seaboard, many are wondering what to do in the brief window before disaster strikes. Here's 5 ways you can help—right now. Read More
The National Resources Defense Council recently released a study that says Americans throw away 40 percent of their food every single day. That works out to $165 billion wasted in food each year—quite an accomplishment for the country leading the world in obesity. A lot of this waste is owed to grocery stores, which are notorious for overstocking shelves with more food than they can sell to give their aisles a more robust look. Read More
(Part Two of a Two-Part Series Dealing with the Climate Crisis)
In my last column, "Three Numbers that Predict the Future of the Planet", I wrote about the state of the climate crisis and focused on three key data points that reveal a bleak, but not altogether hopeless, reality for us and for the rest of the planet.
Since that article posted two weeks ago, there have been two major developments: Read More