by Admin | Aug 24, 2020 | Information, Resources, Sustainability
IKEA, the world’s largest furniture distributor, hasn’t let the death of its founder put it off its game. In a statement that would make the late Ingvar Kamprad proud, the company announced that in 2019, over 70 percent of all materials used to make its products were...
by Admin | Aug 10, 2020 | Conservation, Resources, Sustainability
The Middle Fork diversion dam in Bellingham, Washington, was 25 feet tall and controlled 16 miles of the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River, which drains the North Cascades watershed into Bellingham Bay, just a few miles south of the west-most end of the U.S.-Canadian...
by Admin | Sep 6, 2019 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Resources
According to a report published by researchers at the University of British Columbia, three new viruses have been discovered in endangered Chinook and sockeye salmon populations. One of those viruses is from a group never before shown to infect fish. It’s not entirely...
by Admin | Jun 20, 2018 | Climate Change, Resources, Sustainability
Some people are in a position where they can afford to deny climate change. For Republican politicians in the United States, for example, and for certain business leaders, it’s relatively easy to bury one’s head in the sand and not face any major repercussions,...
by Admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Business, Resources, Sustainability
The waste management sector may not sound exciting, but right now there’s a great deal of back and forth regarding Texas-based Waste Management, Inc., whose price has been downgraded by Stifel–even as the stock remains popular with other investors. Then, of...
by Admin | Sep 27, 2017 | Climate Change, Resources
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, a lot of attention has been given to extreme rainfall and weather events as signs that climate change is real. But what many people haven’t been paying attention to are the changes in non-extreme precipitation...
