BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Free public transportation would be a dream come true for commuters who spend hundreds of dollars on transportation per year. For Parisians, they are on their third consecutive day of free public transportation. Unfortunately, it’s not an…
Seaweed-eating cattle may be our best weapon to fight climate change
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The biggest nuisance on the beach, seaweed, may be our next environmental saviour. New research in Australia discovered that if we were to add dried seaweed to two per cent of sheep and cattle feed, we could…
Tesla is powering a 600-person island with 100% renewable energy
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Ta’u, an island in American Samoa, has been using diesel generators for power. One of these generators burns 300 gallons of fuel per day; one of these generators burns 109,500 gallons of fuel per year. Earlier this…
The world’s poorest countries are going 100% green in the next 4 years
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP We all know global warming is an international issue; we all got scared when Al Gore threw the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ at us in 2006; we’ve seen Leonardo DiCaprio try to persuade the world away from…
Fuck top 40- this music made from vegetables is all you need to listen to today
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Being told to stop playing with your food may have been a common request in your home growing up. A saying which usually means to stop merely fussing with your food has been taken more literally for one…
These women are combining fashion and plastic in a fight against pollution
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Think about how many plastic bags you throw out on a monthly basis. Now, try to imagine how many plastic bags are thrown out every month in your city. Imagine these bags being used to improve environmental…
A wave of driverless cars could hit the streets by 2018
BY: ROBERT AMOROSO “Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.” – Albert Einstein. Imagine, dream a little dream. It’s almost feels like you are in an episode of the Twilight Zone. A voice comes…
The cost of pollution isn’t just the environment, it’s our health and wallets too
In an effort to increase awareness (and instigate action) of ways pollution is infiltrating and affecting human lives, a recent study was conducted by The World Bank in conjunction with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), entitled Air Pollution: Strengthening the Economic…
Dirty little secret of one of the world’s largest oil companies has been exposed
By. JACK M. ExxonMobil is one of the world’s largest oil companies – perhaps the largest – with annual sales in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The energy behemoth has been accused of misleading its shareholders and the…
This eco-waterwheel will make Baltimore’s disgusting harbour swimmable and fishable by 2020
BY: ALEX BROWN By now, Baltimore residents have likely noticed the emergence of a popular new structure perched on the crest of their sprightly waterfront, and cumulating a minor celebrity following on Twitter. The name of the city’s newest addition?…
The Seabin is cleaning waterways so animals don’t have to swim in human garbage
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski from Australia have just created a floating rubbish bin, which not only collects garbage from polluted waterways, but also collects and removes oil, fuel and detergent. Created as a cheap alternative to…
This artist vacuumed Beijing’s air for 100 days and created a brick out of China’s air pollution
BY: TREVOR HEWITT As Beijing is engulfed by its worst ‘airpocalypse’ of the year, one artist is taking to the streets to help us visualize just how bad pollution really is. For the last 100 days, Nut Brother, a Chinese…
A Brazilian street artist is turning trash carts into art to send a powerful message
BY: TREVOR HEWITT While Xzibit pimps trashy cars, artist Thiago Mundano pimps trash carts. Brazil generates more than 200,000 tons of trash a day, with approximately one million trash collectors – known as catadores – responsible for 90 per cent…
Orange peels are being used to suck the mercury out of polluted waterways
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS I buy a carton of orange juice almost every week, but I’ve never once thought about where the peels from the 16-or-so oranges went after the making of my beloved juice. But chemist, Dr. Justin Chalker and…
Terrifying photographs of people who are allergic to their environment
BY: ELI ROSS Amid the hectic, smog filled environment of New York City, photographer Thilde Jensen’s health began to deteriorate. Week by week, the once lively and optimistic socialite began to feel her body and life outlook become as frail as…
These aren’t photos of traditional Chinese landscapes; they are mountains of man-made garbage
BY: ELI ROSS All too easily your eyes can mislead your mind. Nostalgic imagery is deceiving. As your eyes scan across the foggy mountain peaks and calm rivers that wind through green pastures you probably mistook these photographs for a…
Here’s what happens when average people are forced to face their own carbon footprint
BY: CONNOR BRIAN All Photos and Captions: © Neil Baird As we point our fingers, aiming our blame for climate crisis at governments and corporate giants, is there an unseen area that we suppress from our field of vision? It…
This tiny floating garden is successfully cleaning the most polluted waterway in the U.S.
BY: JESSICA BEUKER For more than a century the Gowanus Canal in New York City has been the victim of extreme pollution. It’s notorious for being one of the most polluted waterways in all of the U.S., thanks to sewage…
The world’s largest smog sucking vacuum has the potential to rid cities of pollution
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS If you’re a city dweller, waking up to smog around the tops of buildings is a normal occurrence, and socially we accept this sight. We might even take it for granted. Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde and his…
Beijing sees crystal blue skies after banning 2.5 million cars to reduce smog
BY: JESSICA BEUKER On September 3 the city of Beijing was unrecognizable. In what is notoriously known for being one of the smoggiest cities in the world, the Chinese capital traded in its grey skies for a vibrant, picture-perfect blue.…