Green Living

Green Home Renovation Checklist: Start Here

Dear EarthTalk: I’m planning a major home renovation and want to include as many greenfriendly features as possible. Where do I begin to look?

EarthTalk: Avoiding Common Contaminants That Affect Our Pets

It's hard to know how to keep dogs and cats safe from all the chemicals in the environment around your neighborhood.

Become More Eco-Friendly With These Green Home Ideas

There's no doubt that properties, especially large buildings and business places, can have a harmful effect on the environment. However, if more homeowners took certain steps on board to become more eco-friendly, we could…

EarthTalk: Small Residential Wind Turbines

Backyard wind turbines could help us make the transition away from fossil fuels and towards...

'A Remarkable Story of Resilience and Hope': Renewable Energy Smashes Records in 2020

Despite the difficulties associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, the world added a record amount of new renewable energy capacity in 2020, according…

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The Kind of Heroes We Need to Actually Save the Planet

What if none of the heroes in books or movies ever looked like you? What if you always resembled the villain? What if you and everyone else in the world believed in that vision, so when you placed your Brown body in front of a wall of armored police, by default you became the villain and the police became the heroes?

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OrganicEye Targets The “Wild West” of Organic CBD Marketing

Beyond Pesticides and its investigative arm, OrganicEye, filed suit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against two companies that market CBD (cannabidiol) products identified with false or misleading organic status claims. In August 2020, OrganicEye published an…

Adventures with Goldenseal

My adventure with goldenseal started with three healthy roots I received from United Plant Savers — part of their fall 2012 “give away” to members. At the time, I was living in…

6 Ways You Can Help Reduce Ocean Trash

There are all kinds of plastic trash in the ocean. Most of it comes directly from land-based activities; the rest from the shipping industry.

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The Consequences Of Human Plunder

We have to understand that we cannot perpetrate a mass extinction and come out winners.

Project Drawdown: 100 Climate Solutions in Real Time

It’s easy to get depressed and feel helpless in the face of the cascading effects of climate change we’re experiencing today: mega-wildfires, extreme heat and drought, flooding, hurricanes on steroids…

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Is Global Warming Making Us Dumber?

As we continue to pump carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the climate warms around the world, it’s not only our health and the environment that we have to worry about.

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Scientists around the World Are Working to Turn Agricultural Waste into Food, Packaging and More

When we pick up a piece of fruit, bar of chocolate or package of flour, we don’t often think of the massive amounts of agricultural waste — the stems, leaves, seed pods and more — that never make it off the farm…

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With Fewer Cars on US Streets, Now Is the Time to Reinvent Roadways and How We Use Them

Sticking closer to home because of COVID-19 has shown many people what cities can be like with less traffic, noise, congestion and pollution. Roads and parking lots devoted to cars take up a lot of land…

What Will 2021 Bring In The World Of Conservation?

If it did nothing else, the emergence of Covid-19 a year ago underscored for all of us the importance of anticipating and preparing for — and, as appropriate, steering the course of — things that might happen in the future…

You Don’t Want To Imagine An Ocean Without Coral Reefs—But You Might Have To

The image of the canary in the coal mine is used over and over again to refer to many aspects of the climate catastrophe.

Is Wireless Technology An Environmental Health Risk?

Early in 2012, I started having debilitating cognitive lapses, pressure headaches, nausea and worse when around wireless and electronic devices.

Connecting To Nature Is Good For Kids – But They May Need Help Coping With A Planet In Peril

When children feel connected to nature, they are more likely to report good health and a sense of well-being, more likely to get high scores for creative thinking, and more inclined to show cooperative, helping behaviors.

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The Kind Of Heroes We Need To Actually Save the Planet

Storytellers are the makers of culture and the shapers of consciousness.

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Nature-Based Solutions Help Create More Resilient Places And People

It’s not just about planting trees. At least that’s how sustainability expert Peter Vos sees it, when talking about nature-based solutions.

Of Hemp’s Many Uses, One Of The Most Promising Could Be In Construction

It has become almost a cliché to discuss the benefits of hemp, the supposed wonder plant with almost endless uses— from woven fibers to edible seeds to bioplastics…

The Most Effective Conservation Is Indigenous Land Management

American conservationists have said and done terribly racist things over the years. Now is the opportunity to center justice.

Solar Panel For Your Home: Is It Worth It?

Installing solar panels for your home is an investment that lets you reap various benefits such as reduce electric bills, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and potentially increase a home’s value.