The fashion industry is currently going through a significant change in its approach toward sustainability, aiming to transform from a wasteful and polluting industry into a cleaner sector. While fish skin leather was used for centuries by Indigenous people, it was pushed aside by methodologies that offered more profitable characteristics. Today, however, the ever-increasing focus ...
Have you ever thought about how you can make your life more sustainable? To be honest, I never really gave much thought or even wanted to do something about my impact on the environment, until I had children. I grew up enjoying clean beaches and beautiful rainforests, and I am hoping that they can enjoy that ...
Most of you have heard about the Japanese art of “bonsai,” a technique that allows people to raise miniature versions of trees. However, have you heard of a method called “daisugi”? Unlike bonsai, daisugi enables the Japanese to raise cedar trees that are perfectly straight and that do not have any knots. Growing cedar trees straight up ...
According to the National Christmas Tree Association, almost 27.4 million real trees were used during Christmas in 2016. Of late, there has been a growing concern that having a Christmas tree is not a “green” activity. If you share such an opinion, you can put those worries to rest. 4 simple suggestions for your Christmas ...
Noordin Kasoma owns a workshop in the Ugandan capital of Kampala called Boogaali where he manufactures bicycles. But what makes Kasoma’s bicycles different from the rest is that he uses bamboo as the material for the frame Bamboo bikes “Bamboo is flexible; due to that flexibility, it gives that kind of shock-absorbing property when you’re ...
Total human carbon levels emissions could match those of Earth’s last major greenhouse warming event in fewer than five generations, new research finds. A new study finds humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a rate 9 to 10 times higher than the greenhouse gas was emitted during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), ...
Following the UN’s recent release of their 17 sustainable goals this fall, the Chinese government is taking a step back to look at just how they can contribute to meeting these goals by 2030 despite still having air pollution so bad that it has contributed to 1.6 million deaths per year in the country. These goals aim to ...
If everyone on the planet wanted to eat a healthy diet, there wouldn’t be enough fruit and vegetables to feed the planet, according to a new University of Guelph study. A team of researchers compared global agricultural production with nutritionists’ consumption recommendations and found a drastic mismatch. Study co-author Prof. Evan Fraser, holder of the ...
Europe’s decision to promote the use of wood as a “renewable fuel” will likely greatly increase Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions and cause severe harm to the world’s forests, according to a new comment paper published in Nature Communications. European officials agreed on final language for a renewable energy directive earlier this summer that will almost double Europe’s use ...
Seismic noise — the low-level vibrations caused by everything from subway trains to waves crashing on the beach — is most often something seismologists work to avoid. They factor it out of models and create algorithms aimed at eliminating it so they can identify the signals of earthquakes. But Tim Clements thinks it might be ...
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