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5 votes
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Climate change: Obsession with plastic pollution distracts attention from bigger environmental challenges
7 votes -
For a healthier planet, eat these fifty foods, campaign urges
9 votes -
Madison adopts plan to achieve clean energy goals, align with federal Green New Deal bill
8 votes -
US President Donald Trump's EPA head said climate change is not a top threat because it's 'fifty to seventy-five years out'
18 votes -
Electric cars won't shrink emissions enough - we must cut travel too
6 votes -
EIA projects U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will remain near current level through 2050
8 votes -
'It looked like an ocean': Severe Midwest flooding could last all spring
5 votes -
Britain will have water shortages in twenty-five years thanks to climate change, environment chief says
7 votes -
Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs
23 votes -
Cyclone Idai 'might be southern hemisphere's worst such disaster'
6 votes -
Rising flood levels threaten Mozambique disaster relief effort
5 votes -
500 million years of climate history pinned on plate tectonics
9 votes -
"It’s a constant battle just to survive”: Many California wildfire survivors are still homeless months after a historic blaze
8 votes -
President Filipe Nyusi says more than 100,000 are at risk after storm hit Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe
4 votes -
US and Saudi Arabia blocking regulation of geoengineering, sources say
7 votes -
Climate politics after the Yellow Vests
8 votes -
US Republican congressman: Ideas behind Green New Deal 'tantamount to genocide'
16 votes -
My hospital uses reusable towels for baby diaper changes
Hi, I was originally meaning to write a whole thing about my personal low waste challenges with a new born, but...Yeah the new born part is making it kind of impossible right now. So, before...
Hi, I was originally meaning to write a whole thing about my personal low waste challenges with a new born, but...Yeah the new born part is making it kind of impossible right now.
So, before giving birth, we did get some reusable diapers used. I really wanted to commit to them, but was honestly afraid that they would be too overwhelming. And I had no plan for replacing disposable wipes. I had some little towels, but considering a new born goes through about 8-10 diapers a day and I have used up to three disposable wipes while changing my nephew's diaper - I wasn't sure how feasible reusable wipes were. (I don't have 30 little towels and wasn't planning to run out and buy anything).
Sometime in the last year, the postpartum ward of my local hospital dropped their disposable wipes and now use little orange face towels. And they were surprisingly easy to use. Quick wetting with warm water and they work better than disposable cloths, so you really don't need as many as I previously calculated. Using them in the hospital really encouraged me to use them at home.
I honestly think we've grown really use to a disposable mindset, especially for sanitary items, and find it interesting and a little sad how things like disposable diapers and wipes are the default. Reusable diapers for most people aren't even a consideration. Hope to see more changes like this in the hospital amd elsewhere to remind and encourage us to evaluate out options.
13 votes -
The seas are saving us from runaway global warming, but for how long?
5 votes -
Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior: ‘Some people can let things go. I can’t’
7 votes -
Unburning CO2
7 votes -
Solar geo-engineering: It won’t hurt a bit!
4 votes -
Eleven dead as Brazil's largest city flooded
5 votes -
It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change
17 votes -
Halving warming with idealized solar geoengineering moderates key climate hazards
7 votes -
As more rain falls, Greenland is melting faster
7 votes -
'Re-Imagining Paradise' — Making plans to rebuild a town destroyed by wildfire
4 votes -
'We cannot swim, we cannot eat': Solomon Islands struggle with nation's worst oil spill
9 votes -
Even in a warmer Europe, wind and solar could still keep the lights on
5 votes -
"Deep Adaptation": A paper that predicts an inevitable near-term social collapse due to climate change
26 votes -
The next financial crisis could be caused by climate change
15 votes -
What happens now that China won't take U.S. recycling: Many waste-management companies are simply burning recyclables or sending them to landfills
15 votes -
EPA administrator Wheeler: "Is climate change the existential threat? I don’t see it as the existential threat, no"
7 votes -
Tornadoes in the Southeast are getting worse -- and they're often the deadliest
4 votes -
Kipple field notes
3 votes -
The Green New Deal Needs WWII-Scale Ambition
13 votes -
The new ‘dream home’ should be a condo
20 votes -
For the few who heat homes with coal, it's still king
6 votes -
The last generation
7 votes -
Climate change: Angela Merkel welcomes school strikes
11 votes -
Iceberg twice the size of New York City about to break off Antarctica, says NASA
12 votes -
CO2 emissions fall in eighteen countries with strong policies, study finds (in the journal Nature Climate Change)
18 votes -
A world without clouds
12 votes -
Botswana mulls lifting elephant hunting ban
5 votes -
Climate change enters its blood-sucking phase - as winters grow warmer in North America, thirsty ticks are on the move
13 votes -
Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits Ecuador
6 votes -
Not seen for 100 years, a rare Galápagos tortoise was considered all but extinct – until now
10 votes -
Glencore bows to climate lobby and caps coal production
9 votes -
Yes, the Green New Deal is audacious. But we have no choice but to think big.
12 votes