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3 votes
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Rethinking space heating
23 votes -
The mattress landfill crisis: How the race to bring us better beds led to a recycling nightmare
13 votes -
The spread of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was far worse than previously believed, new research has found
9 votes -
The environmental burden of generation Z: Kids are terrified, anxious and depressed about climate change
14 votes -
Independent Zali Steggall eyes end of ‘climate wars’ with zero carbon bill
News article: Independent Zali Steggall eyes end of ‘climate wars’ with zero carbon bill Zali Steggall's website: Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020
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RSPB Minsmere
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In agricultural giant Brazil, a new and growing hazard: The illegal trade in pesticides
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Norway, western Europe's largest oil and gas producer, announced on Friday it was increasing its ambition to cut carbon emissions
9 votes -
“Abrupt thaw” affects five percent of Arctic permafrost, but it could double the amount of warming it contributes
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It’s time to be honest about seafood
14 votes -
Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3°C (65°F)
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Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled, so they’re piling up in landfills - Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives
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EU states clash over use of toxic mercury in light bulbs – lighting industry's exemption from 2011 ban may jeopardise climate goals says Sweden
7 votes -
When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low
7 votes -
Germany eyes new offshore wind farms dedicated to green hydrogen production
7 votes -
Donald Trump’s US border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months
7 votes -
Stockholm has been named 'smartest city in the world' for its innovations on the environment, digital technology and residents' wellbeing
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How to Actually Personally Fight Climate Change
12 votes -
Climate change activist Greta Thunberg says she is trademarking her name and the #FridaysForFuture movement to stop people from impersonating her
11 votes -
SolarRoof.Cool — A crash course on Tesla's Solarglass roof, Powerwall, and sustainable energy systems, from the perspective of an owner.
26 votes -
How sustainable is a solar powered website?
10 votes -
Smaller TN waterways lose protection under new EPA rule
3 votes -
An open letter on Australian bushfires and climate: urgent need for deep cuts in carbon emissions [signed by Laureates of the Australian Research Council]
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A journalist in Japan looks at how much single-use plastic he accumulates in a week, then attempts to spend a week without using any
17 votes -
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits between Cuba and Jamaica
7 votes -
Invasion of the ‘Frankenbees’: The danger of building a better bee
6 votes -
Saint-Louis, Senegal: How the 'Venice of Africa' is losing its battle against the rising ocean
4 votes -
Air pollution inequality growing in Massachusetts
3 votes -
Planet Money - Episode 926: So, should we recycle?
3 votes -
Oslo may see just fifty days of snow deeper than 30cm in 2050, down from eighty days today and 140 days in 1900
8 votes -
Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic
7 votes -
Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in East Africa
4 votes -
Carbon-neutral in fifteen years? Finland – the country with an ambitious plan
7 votes -
The audacious effort to reforest the planet
4 votes -
Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
6 votes -
America’s radioactive secret: Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year
10 votes -
California's new groundwater law explained
9 votes -
Greta Thunberg: ‘Forget about net zero, we need real zero’
19 votes -
Stockholm street just became the first in Sweden to ban old diesel cars – 4,000 of the 24,000 cars that use Hornsgatan every day will now be forced to take a detour
9 votes -
The US pesticide industry's playbook for avoiding neonicotinoid bans
10 votes -
David Gunnlaugsson – Iceland's melting glaciers are nothing to panic about
2 votes -
New UNSW research calls for national action to minimise the risk of the platypus vanishing due to habitat destruction, dams and weirs
4 votes -
Norway made an outspoken right-wing lawmaker who once called wind turbines 'white monsters' its oil and energy minister
9 votes -
Norway says its new giant oil field is actually good for the environment – critics call it climate hypocrisy
4 votes -
How bad is the environmental impact of shipping/delivery?
I've recently started trying to improve my environmental impact, so I apologize for what might be a very basic question, but how bad is it to have items shipped/delivered to you, rather than...
I've recently started trying to improve my environmental impact, so I apologize for what might be a very basic question, but how bad is it to have items shipped/delivered to you, rather than picking them up from a store near you?
I'm specifically interested in two situations:
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If I'm buying a specialty, zero-waste product that's not available in stores nearby, which is worse: having it delivered directly to my house, or having to drive a good distance in my own car to get it? Are the two roughly comparable, or is one considerably worse than the other?
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I use a service called PaperBackSwap that is sort of like a big, distributed, online used bookstore. You give away books from your collection to people who request them, and for each book you send out you can request one to be sent to you. I like that it's putting books in the hands of people who specifically want them (as opposed to donating them or selling them to a used bookstore where they might be shelved indefinitely or pulped), but now I'm sitting here wondering how bad it is for that single hardcover of mine to travel halfway across the country. On the other hand, the book is getting reused, potentially multiple times if it then gets requested by others after that. Should I be considering this good reuse, or a waste of resources?
Outside of those two, I'd welcome any primers on the topic at large, as well as any best practices with consumer goods that I can start putting into place. I've already done a lot to find plastic-free alternatives to a lot of what I use, but I don't know if I'm trading one ill for another by getting them from places that have to send them from hundreds of miles away.
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Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology
12 votes -
Microsoft announces their plan to be carbon negative by 2030
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Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous Australian 'dinosaur trees'
5 votes -
US electricity generation from renewables surpassed coal in April
8 votes