Green Living

5 Ways To Get More Enjoyment From Your Backyard

By creating spaces designed to meet your needs, you'll be much more likely to enjoy your time outside. Let your imagination be your guide, and get ready to enjoy your backyard paradise!

EarthTalk®: Does Solar Surge Make Everyone’s Electricity Rates Rise?

The rise of solar power may result in short-term increases in electricity prices due to grid upgrades and energy storage costs. But in the long run, solar offers significant savings by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and lowering carbon emissions.

Consider Planting Buttonbush — A Star Butterfly Nectar Plant — To Help Our Pollinators

For those who want to help our pollinators but don’t have room for a garden, this plant would be beneficial to plant where a wetlands area needs restoring or along the banks of ponds, streams or rivers in a park.

EarthTalk®: Plastic Bag Ban Reversals From Covid Are A Challenge

Many consumers who reverted to plastic bags during Covid have been slow to switch back to alternatives. Individuals can play an important role. We can promote the use of reusable bags and encourage friends and family to make the switch.

Consulting the Genius of the Place

When you take the spirits into account, things just start to go better — crops are healthier, animals thrive, you have fewer problems with pests, weather may be more favorable, and you may even suffer fewer accidents and breakdowns.

6 Surprising Ways Plants Create A Healthier Environment Inside Your Home

Exposure to plants improves mood, reduces stress perception and increases the sense of comfort in indoor environments. In other words, the presence of greenery makes spaces feel more alive and less artificial, which influences how people think and feel.

EarthTalk®: How To Engage Slacker Teens On Climate And Environment

Only two states require climate education in science curriculums, so, your child is no slacker if the education being taught is "slacking"!

It’s Spring Migration Season: Tips To Save Birds From Death By Window Strike

There are many ways to help migrating birds, or any bird, stay safe while in flight. The following are things for both residential and commercial buildings. Some are very easy and inexpensive, but the lives saved are priceless.

EarthTalk®: Could Floating Solar Panels Meet All The Electricity Needs In The US?

Floating solar farms operate similarly to ground-mounted farms. Devices keeping the system buoyant sit on top of the water, cooling the panels, which increases efficiency.

Applauding Environmental Justice While Calling Out Bad Bunny For His Misogynistic Song Lyrics

Original article text highlighting Bad Bunny’s role as an environmental justice educator replaced with a disheartening reality check after an angry reader email.

Row Of Electric Cars At Public Charging Station With Plugged Power Cables

EarthTalk®: Is It True You Shouldn’t Buy A Used Electric Vehicle (EV)?

Most EVs can retain 70–90 percent of their original capacity even after years on the road. So, overall battery longevity is far more robust than many assume.

Urban Wildlife Is All Around Us, Though Often Hidden

Urban life for many species is not a choice but a necessity. The uninhabited space they had for millions of years has vanished. For them, living near people is based on survival and the drive to find food. As their habitat becomes more fragmented through development, their food sources vanish.

Red Wooden House In The Park In Winter With Red Maple Trees.

Skip The Salt And Use This Reliable DIY Non-Toxic Ice Melt Instead

While you enjoy this winter's cache of fresh snowfall, try this non-toxic de-icer for your steps and porch you can make yourself. It works within minutes, and only needs 3 ingredients you probably already have at home.

EarthTalk®: Is Joe Rogan Right That The Planet Is Actually Cooling Right Now?

Rogan recently cited data from a 2024 study that shows Earth’s temperature over the last 485 million years. Temperatures have varied, and yes, our current time period is the coolest it's been in a long time.

How To Keep Wildflowers From Going Extinct Under The Radar

Wildflowers need space, water, sun and clean air to survive and thrive. A healthy ecosystem flourishes while a toxic one becomes a wasteland. The time is now to be proactive in protecting what open space we have left.

Straw Bales On Farmland And Wind Turbines At Sunset

How Wind And Solar Power Help Keep America’s Farms Alive

In some rural counties, clean energy is the largest new source of economic activity, helping stabilize local economies otherwise reliant on agriculture’s unpredictable income streams. These projects also support rural manufacturing.

EarthTalk®:What Are Zombie Forests?

They may look lush and green, but some forests are already on borrowed time. These so-called “zombie forests” are made up of trees that are still alive but no longer capable of reproducing in the changing climate around them.

When I Go, I’m Going Green

Buying a cemetery plot where I can have a green burial, on the other hand, proved to be surprisingly affordable and will allow my body, once no longer in use, to decompose as quickly and as naturally as possible, with minimal environmental damage.

How To Poop Outdoors In A Way That Won’t Harm The Environment And Other Hikers

If you’re one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you’ve found yourself needing to go, with no toilet in sight. Aside from personal inconvenience, why is this such a big deal?

EarthTalk®: What Will Replace The EnergySTAR Program To Identify Energy Efficient Appliances?

Although it’s discouraging to see the EnergySTAR program potentially cut, it’s valuable for households to make an effort to improve their energy usage or buy energy-efficient appliances, in whatever steps possible for them.

EarthTalk®: Artificial Turf Controversy

Artificial turf fields have been rising in popularity as a low-maintenance (no mowing or watering) alternative to natural grass. Can you set the record straight about whether artificial turf is actually bad for our health and/or the environment?

EarthTalk®: Are Hunter-Gatherer Communities Still Living Today?

In addition to industrial projects, the loss of biodiversity through deforestation and the subsequent extinction of animal species decreases food sources and the supply of traditional medicine. Citizens and governments must make efforts toward preserving the cultures and homelands of hunter-gatherer groups.

EarthTalk®: Which Countries Currently Lead The World In Total Clean Energy Generation — And Will This Ranking Shift Anytime Soon?

Clean energy generation — or energy generation without the output of harmful greenhouse gases — has become an increasingly hot topic in today’s race for productivity and the growing global emphasis on eco-consciousness.

Green Data Center In The Middle Of The Forest

EarthTalk®: Why Is Artificial Intelligence Called The Biggest Threat To Battling Climate Change?

Environmental advocates warn that AI’s rising energy use, increased emissions from building infrastructure, and the potential to slow down clean energy efforts may become serious threats in our fight against climate change.

Why Protecting Wildland Is Crucial To American Freedom And Identity

Public lands are more than just wilderness or national parks. They are places for work and play. Without wild places, the U.S. would be just like every other over-industrialized place in the world.