- 5 steps for removing ‘forever chemicals’ from your company’s supply chain
Keen was born in 2003 from a simple question: “Can a sandal protect your toes?” But this wasn’t our only goal. As a values-led, family-owned business, we also wanted to protect wild places and minimize our impact on them. I first joined in 2011 to be part of a business ... read more - You could build a storm management system for $2 million—or you could use beavers
“Are you ready to open the closet and enter Narnia?” Scott McGill stands at the edge of Long Green Creek in the Chesapeake watershed. I can hear rustling and chirping, then the loud, regal cry of a hawk. “I’m ready.” McGill is the founder of a visionary environmental restoration company ... read more - States are testing roads made from old plastic bags and ink cartridges. The results are impressive
Transportation officials in multiple states are testing whether roads made from grocery bags, juice cartons, printer ink cartridges, or other discarded plastic can make pavement last longer, save money, and reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. On sections of a busy, four-lane road that cuts through ... read more - Tesla owners didn’t buy a car: We bought a set of beliefs Elon is trashing
To think a Tesla is just a car is to not understand the power of a strong brand and how quickly that loyalty is wiped out with consistently contrary behavior. Elon Musk’s new supporters on Twitter and elsewhere have two things in common: They don’t drive Teslas, and they never ... read more - These old Brooklyn apartments got a stunning facelift—that also cut energy by 80%
At first glance, a group of affordable apartment buildings in Brooklyn looks brand new. But they’re actually nearly a century old. Their new white facades, with a sculptural design, aren’t just a cosmetic upgrade for the worn exteriors, but also part of a major retrofit that means the buildings now ... read more - USPS mail trucks are finally going electric
It makes sense for mail trucks to be electric vehicles—most travel relatively short routes each day, and they can plug in to charge at night. In France, the postal service has 40,000 electric vehicles; Germany has 20,000. But the U.S. Postal Service only has a handful, and last year, when ... read more - Americans throw out 32% of the food they buy. Here’s how to avoid so much waste
You saw it at Thanksgiving, and you’ll likely see it at your next holiday feast: piles of unwanted food—unfinished second helpings, underwhelming kitchen experiments and the like—all dressed up with no place to go, except the back of the refrigerator. With luck, hungry relatives will discover some of it before ... read more - 3 tangible ways to engage your community and tackle big problems
As more people migrate to urban areas at risk of climate disaster, cities are increasingly thinking and working outside the traditional toolbox when tackling sustainability problems. The growth of chief heat officers across global cities and counties—from Melbourne, Australia, to Miami-Dade County in Florida—is an example of this urban rethink ... read more - How businesses can help prevent the ‘sixth extinction’
As the UN COP15 Biodiversity Conference draws to a close in Montreal, global governments have set ambitious targets to protect 30% of land by 2030, in order to prevent the irreversible loss of our natural world. Delivering this will not be easy. Despite the stark reality facing the world, governments’ ... read more - ‘They never told us when we bought this place’: How mobile home communities are dealing with flood risk
This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News. Charlotte Bishop was standing at her kitchen window in January 2019 when she saw water streaming into her yard. A block of ice had clogged the brook that snakes around the mobile home park where she and her husband Rollin live in ... read more - Want to change the world? Start by changing your words
Words wield power; they can significantly shape people, culture, and behavior. Yet while we grow ever more aware that we live and work in a world of finite natural resources, the language we use in business isn’t helping us make impactful change. In fact, the words we use every day ... read more - The secret money fueling the conservative anti-ESG push
When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced plans for the state to fight “woke CEOs” last summer, it was one step in a coordinated series of attacks against ESG—the environmental, social, and governance factors that mainstream investors now consider when evaluating the risks that companies face. DeSantis said that Florida would ... read more - Why is ‘1.5 degrees Celsius of warming’ our climate target?
The U.S. economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s, when scientific understanding of climate change was still taking shape, that warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) would “push global conditions past any point that any human civilization had experienced.” By 1990, scientists had ... read more - Why these Indiana residents are pushing back on a plant that aims to turn trash into jet fuel
This article originally appeared in Inside Climate News. It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here. Gary, Indiana—For Lori Latham and four other self-described “badass women,” the future of their hometown rests on a battle over 75 acres that lie between a giant steel mill and ... read more - There’s finally a national climate bank. Here’s how it can make its $27 billion go even further
This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News and Reasons to Be Cheerful and was made possible in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations. Five years ago, when Clauditta Curson became a first-time homebuyer, she was shocked by the “astronomical” utility bills she received for her 1,200-square-foot ... read more
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