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08/23/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Experts warn that shutting down nuclear plants would “negate” efforts to transition to clean energy

A report funded by a pro-nuclear group claimed that the impending closure of old nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio will be a big blow against air quality in the region. In a report from The Pittsburg Post-Gazette, the nuclear facilities would be replaced by natural gas plants that produce more air pollution. The report […]

05/31/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Mushroom-based products could soon replace leather, cloth, and even bricks

A San Francisco Bay startup is using fungi-based materials as possible substitutes for leather, cotton, wood, and bricks. In a Waking Times article, the company showed that they could turn mushrooms into a sustainable source of eco-friendly biomaterials for many common products. In 2016, MycoWorks developed a way to turn fungi into a leather-like material […]

05/26/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Streets of the future could be made from tire waste and organic wax

Streets of the future could be made out of tire waste and organic wax, according to a study published in the journal Materiales de Construcción. The study revealed that tire waste and organic wax could be used to make sustainable asphalt. A team of researchers at the Technical University of Madrid in Spain developed a […]

05/23/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The politics surrounding GMOs: Bureaucrats don’t care about the environment and are more interested in money

By and large, government bureaucrats in America and Europe don’t care two sticks about the environment or public health. They only care about the profits promised by big businesses that are using GMOs to take over the world’s food supplies, an article in GreenMedInfo stated. It started in the U.S. in the 90s. The executives […]

05/18/2018 / By Janine Acero

Seaweed could save California’s coastline by reducing ocean acidification

Researchers from the California State University (CSU) found that marine vegetation could play a significant role in minimizing ocean acidification (OA), a phenomenon wherein the ocean waters become too acidic due to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Ocean acidification is a chemical reaction brought about by a significant reduction of pH levels in ocean […]

04/24/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Stretching your grocery budget AND helping the environment: Tips for reducing food waste at home

Save your money and the earth by switching to plant-based diets. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggested that hundreds of millions more people could eat from the same sources if animal-based diets were replaced with plant-based diets. Globally, nearly a third of food produced for humans to […]

06/12/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Why exiting the Paris Climate Accord helps America’s poorest

President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord was applauded in some quarters, but it was met with a lot of derision from the left. This is a rather curious reaction for a group that claims to be concerned about the economic welfare of our nation’s poorest inhabitants. While most […]

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