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Bioremediation
Few people have heard about bioremediation and those who have heard of it, very few people know what it actually is. Bioremediation...

Accountability
If your social media feed looks anything like mine you probably saw some posts this past September about the Climate Clock in Manhattan,...

Impacts of Illegal Mining
Mining has been one of the worlds biggest industries since the very beginning of civilized life. Around 10,000 to 7,000 years ago mining...

Ecobricks
People often recycle every piece of clean plastic they can, but not all plastic can be recycled. Small pieces of plastic being recycled...

Earth's Ice
Ice. It’s, well, cold. If you set a bucket of ice into a small room, it will gradually cool down that room by a few degrees. On a larger...

Elk Rapids Efforts
Humans are the cause of climate change and global warming, plain and simple. We are also the solution to it, if we want to be. In our...

Habitat Fragmentation
Disuniting, isolation, these describe what is currently happening to ecological areas around the world. Habitats are homes for living...

Why it’s Worth Buying Sustainable Products
With the growing realization that traditional products we often purchase create a lot of unneeded waste and are not sustainably sourced,...

Food Waste
Every year, about 72 million pounds of perfectly good food goes to waste in the United States, ending up in landfills. Of that 72...

Pollution
Most, if not all, environmental pollution comes from humans and their inventions. One of the two most common and recognizable of these is...

Ocean Acidification
By now most people know that the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been rapidly increasing, but what is all that COâ‚‚ doing...

Meat & Dairy Industries
I had always looked at climate change as an issue to advocate for, but too large of a project to tackle as just one person. The United...

4Ocean
We have all seen those colorful beaded bracelets while checking out a store or seen them on someone’s wrist. 4ocean, the creators of...

Environmental Racism
Environmental Racism. Individually, these two words have been popping up quite a bit recently; but what does it mean when they are...

Green New Deal
By now, most people have heard of the Green New Deal. The GND is a proposed bill by the two main writers, representative Alexandria...

The Clothing Industry
Thought that $7 t-shirt was a steal? Think again. The clothing industry poses a substantial threat to the environment and as consumers,...

The Destructive Behaviors of Humans
While most people do not realize there is a mass extinction currently happening, there are drastic amounts of species going extinct as a...