by Admin | Oct 25, 2019 | Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Did you know that a whopping 380 million tons of plastic are created worldwide each year? Worse yet, as the plastics market continues to increase, many analysts are predicting that plastic production could quadruple by 2050. The trouble with all this plastic...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Green Energy, Sustainability
Over the past 40 years, advances in adapting wind energy technology and improvements in predicting wind conditions have created significant growth in the use of wind turbines for electricity. A new report published in Applied Physics Reviews takes stock of where the...
by Admin | Dec 21, 2018 | Environmental hazards, Sustainability
We all do it: when we’re tired after a long day at work, or when we just don’t want to cook, we order take-out food. And with all that tasty goodness comes packaging. And with all that packaging comes a problem: waste. Lots of waste. A group of scientists from the...
by Admin | Nov 28, 2018 | Climate Change, Sustainability
If the world is going to get serious about fighting the global problem of climate change, the effort must be led by those who have means. Corporations and wealthy individuals are the ones with the money and power, and thus they largely control the world’s consumption...
by Admin | Nov 14, 2018 | Business, Climate Change, Green Energy, Sustainability
Good news for the environment: renewable energy is getting cheaper, and so is the technology for storing energy produced by those renewable sources. Lazard recently released its annual Levelized Cost of Energy report, along with its fourth annual Levelized Cost of...