The Chip Bag Problem: America’s Least Recycled Material Is Also Its Fastest-Growing
The bag your potato chips come in is seven layers deep. Metalized polyester, a plastic...
A Stylish Investment: Making Fashion Sustainable
Fashion is a major sustainability challenge in the global economy, and for most of the...
Best of Sustainability In Your Ear: Making Billions of Square Feet of Commercial Space Sustainable with CBRE’s Rob Bernard
The built environment, particularly office buildings other urban facilities, are responsible for 39% of the...
About That $3,000 Bag of Groceries in Your Trash
Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a new Earth911 series, Where Waste Comes...
The 2026 World Cup Will Be the Most Polluting Ever
Nine million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. That is the projected climate cost of the...
The Price Tag on a Ton of Carbon: What It Is, Why It Keeps Changing, and What It Means for Your Future
If you took one long-haul flight each year for the past decade, the world would...
Sustainability In Your Ear: Zena Harris Brings a Green Spark to Hollywood
An average big-budget movie creates about 3,370 metric tons of CO₂, according to the Sustainable...
5 Fun Ways To Recycle Your Jeans
The average American discards roughly 82 pounds of clothing and textiles each year — and...