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The Lazy Girl’s Guide to a Less Wasteful Existence. Top Story - April 2021.
I’m lazy. Don’t get me up early. Don’t give me too many things to do per day. Let me meander through life at my own pace. I’m also a chronic worrier. I freak out about what’s in my food, what’s in my hair products and what’s going to happen to the world if we don’t stop using so much stuff!
By Kelley Zherzhi5 years ago in Earth
Book Review: 'The Wintermen lll by Brit Griffin
The Wintermen lll: At The End of the World by Brit Griffin, from by Latitude 46 publishing, is the third instalment, and conclusion, of the author's dystopian climate change science fiction series. Set in the vicinity of Cobalt, Ontario Canada, which for those that don't know is in the northern part of the province, it depicts a world where the climate is so out of whack North America is locked in perpetual winter.
By Richard Marcus5 years ago in Earth
Equitable way to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emission for the planet
Since after the industrial revolution, human source of CO2 emission has been ruin like burning of oil, coal, gases, burning plastic, use of fertilizers and deforestation, industrial processes.
By Amit kumar singh5 years ago in Earth
We Need to Talk About Our Plastic Problem
It was 2007. A teacher silenced my boisterous class in our shabby classroom. Exhausted, she pleaded with us to pay attention. The lesson was on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a recent discovery by Charles J. Moore. After ten years, it had finally gained public traction.
By Olivia L. Dobbs5 years ago in Earth
4 Interesting Facts About Planet Earth
Earth day observed on April 22 every year marks the anniversary of the modern environmental movement in 1970. The first Earth Day was an American movement started by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson. Later in 1990, Denis Hayes took it international and organized events in 141 nations. Today, all over the world, we celebrate Earth Day. Have you ever wondered about how the planet Earth holds us stable in perfect harmony, withstanding the mess we do it? Let’s think about some of the interesting things about our patient Mother Earth.
By Anitha Sankaran5 years ago in Earth
Leave footprints in the sand not in the air
A carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product.”1 It is calculated by summing the emissions resulting from every stage of a product or service’s lifetime (material production, manufacturing, use, and end-of-life)
By Kayleigh Taylor5 years ago in Earth
History of Earth Day
April 22 is called Earth Day because it both commemorates and celebrates the observance of the anniversary of our discovery of planet Earth. At this time, by all accounts, there is general agreement that Earth is far superior to the planet from which we came, as we shall recount below. Meanwhile, several companies on Earth celebrate it as a holiday, as mine does, or draw significant attention to it with feats of Interweb and mobile legerdemain.
By Bill Petro5 years ago in Earth
'The year the world changed', a love song to planet Earth in times of pandemic
David Attenborough could have retired a long time ago to his magnificent house located on the outskirts of London to enjoy a peaceful retirement, savoring the honey of a full life in which he has achieved absolutely everything by dedicating himself to the greatest of his passions: scientific dissemination. But this legendary naturalist is fireproof, and at almost 95 years old he refuses to hang up his field boots, willing to continue giving his best until his last breath. There is a powerful reason that compels you to do so: as you have said countless times, never before has planet Earth been more threatened than now.
By Harsh Mehta5 years ago in Earth
Permaculture In Thailand. Top Story - April 2021.
4 years ago today, I had never traveled outside the United States. I was just a kid from New Jersey about to graduate from college with only a small idea of what I wanted to do with my life. All I knew was that it had to be something meaningful. Flash forward to June of that year, and I’m on a plane, alone, traveling across the world to Thailand and Laos.
By Jacob Walters5 years ago in Earth
