Posts Tagged ‘Brave New World’
Words Fail, Jaw Drops
Posted by: Michael D. Austin on January 15, 2008
Words Fail, Jaw Drops
Posted by: Michael D. Austin on January 15, 2008
- How to get people to wear more sunscreen: Make it free.BrightGuard is installing free sunscreen dispensers across the country, in the hopes of reducing melanoma rates by 20% by 2025.
- Castle of plastic bottles shows the way to reducing waste.Plastic waste is a growing problem worldwide - especially for the planet's oceans. The dilemma has inspired a Canadian entrepreneur to start using old plastic bottles to build homes on an island off Panama.
- From Montreal to Athens, mayors agree: Citizens make greener cities.Mayors and experts from all over the world agree that local governments need to partner with citizens to succeed in making cities more sustainable.
- 'We don't want to be dug out': The Indigenous art helping to protect the land from mining.“It’s some sort of a hole they’ve got to dig in and get the oil and the gas, you know – but there’s spirits of Yolngu people in the ground,” says artist Nawurupu Wunungmurra.
- These yoga pants are reincarnated from coffee grounds and crab shells.The yogawear company RumiX makes every piece of clothing it sells from materials that would otherwise end up in a landfill or the ocean.
- Conservationists expand oyster habitat with 'reef balls' built by students.The project united the anglers with environmentalists, business sponsors and students for a common objective: cleaning the Chesapeake for the sake of its ecology and for its economic power.
- Tiny biodegradable spheres could replace plastic microbeads.Researchers from the University of Bath in England have developed biodegradable, plant-based microbeads that could one day replace the plastic version in a variety of consumer products.
- Butte Creek salmon story one to be cherished.The Butte Creek salmon story is a rare one. Usually stories about fisheries in California are centered around a species that is disappearing. This one is about a species that is thriving.
- Environmentalists claim a win for Charlotte, N.C., drinking water.Duke Energy has withdrawn its request to add a chemical compound at several of its coal-fired plants that curbs air pollution but appeared to have caused a 2015 spike in contaminants in Charlotte’s drinking water.
- What's the best step you've taken to reduce waste?Australians have been spurred into action to reduce their rubbish by the ABC’s War on Waste. We want to know your top recycling tips.
- 'All this junk gets dumped in Africa': How to make eco art from rubbish.Kenyan artist Kioko Mwitiki’s life-sized scrap metal sculptures won him global acclaim. He tells DW about his art's impact, scavenging and environmental challenges facing Africa as it becomes the 'factory of the world.'
- A Maine artist learns, through trial and error, to use art to communicate about climate change.For Laurie Sproul the transition from artist to activist wasn't easy, but it was necessary.
- 40 countries are making polluters pay for carbon pollution. Guess who's not.Most people who have given climate change policy any thought agree that it is important to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions. They are a form of harmful waste; those producing the waste should pay for the harms.
- US youth tobacco use in 2016 fell by largest amount in 6 years.Youth tobacco use in the United States fell to historic lows in 2016, leading public health experts to speculate that a smoke-free generation may be within reach.
- Considering 'Mad Max' and other Hollywood dystopias after Trump's exit from Paris accord.Film and literature — to say nothing of our private insecurities — resound with a world that freezes, boils, chokes, cracks with earthquakes, dwindles with resources and succumbs to pestilence and disease.
- Bringing healing meals to the chronically ill in California.A coalition of California nonprofits is advocating for a medically tailored meal pilot program for low-income residents.
- Salmon salvation: How farmers, water districts and the federal government worked together to bring Butte Creek salmon back from the brink.From hundreds of fish annually to nearly 9,000 per year, Butte Creek salmon are thriving, thanks to a project begun 20 years ago.
- Living sculptures to battle Glasgow’s toxic air.CityTree, which does the work of 275 regular trees, has been popping up in cities around the world, including Oslo, Paris, Brussels and Hong Kong.
- Birding on the Outer Banks.Nearly wiped out during the 1960s and ’70s, brown pelicans are now common on the N.C. coast, thanks mainly to conservation efforts and a ban on DDT insecticides.
- Take a whiff of cities' unique smells with 'pollution pods.'A science/art installation for a Norwegian festival offers visitors the chance to sniff the polluted air from six different cities.
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