Guest Idea: Wildfire-Resistant Plant Selection
Picture two houses in the aftermath of a California wildfire. What’s left of one is...
Guest Idea: The Hidden Environmental Cost of Digital Hoarding
Every photo, email and forgotten download stored in the cloud lives somewhere physical. Most of...
What Pet Waste Costs: The Litter, Bags, and Packaging Filling America’s Landfills
Every year, Americans bury an estimated two million tons or more of used clay cat...
The Extinctions We Watched Happen
On August 26, 2009, an Australian biologist’s audio detector picked up a single bat working...
Diaper Dilemma: $840 a Year, 500 Years to Decompose
A typical American baby goes through roughly 2,500 to 3,000 disposable diapers in the first...
When the Lawn Becomes the Fuse: How Climate Change Is Rewiring Grass and Wildfire
More than 25,000 square miles of the U.S. Great Basin, an area nearly twelve times...
Earth911 Inspiration: Complex Is the New Normal
Today’s quote is from author Ken Webster and philanthropist Ellen MacArthur: “Ordered, complex, intertwined mutually interdependent...
Electronics: The Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in Your Home
24. That is the average number of electronic devices sitting in a typical American home...