Nowadays, more and more of us are trying to be eco-friendly and are trying to reduce our carbon footprint. This is where the debate of whether a fireplace that uses wood or an electric heater is more environmentally friendly. There are many ways of heating on the market. Wood heating is among the most popular…
Category: Sustainabilty
What Happens Inside A Recycling Plant?
Recycling is the act of taking products created from a particular material, dismantling it, and repurposing it in some fashion. Your washed metal can is sorted and crushed with thousands of other cans before processing, melting, and reusing. They’re all melted down and repurposed into new cans. Paper is recycled and used in new paper…
Environmental Achievement That Happened In 2021
It’s all too easy to be pessimistic about the health of the world’s ecosystem in 2021. More than a million species are on the verge of extinction, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue to rise, and the world has been shattered by a succession of climate-related catastrophic weather events. Meanwhile, the world is still…
The Ridiculously Comprehensive Guide to Fast Fashion
With our growing population and the age of the internet that we live in, we spend a lot of money on clothes, which is not always good for our planet. Companies like Forever 21, H&M, or even Zara are significant contributors to the fast fashion industry and make fashionable and cheap clothes that cost our…
COP26: what world leaders agreed to — and what they didn’t.
The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26) was held in Glasgow, the United Kingdom and ran from 31 October to 13 November 2021. If you have never heard about this event, we are here to guide you through what is COP26 and what this would change. What Is COP? For approximately…
Sustainable Beer Brewing – What Do We Know?
Brewing is not an ecologically friendly enterprise in general. One barrel of beer requires three to seven barrels of water. During the brewing process and after that, a lot of energy is needed to keep the beer warm. Then there are the unrecycled byproducts and the transportation impact to consider. While sustainability has been a…
Are Electric Cars Greener?
Electric vehicles will be around for a long time. What seemed like a mere dream a decade ago is now the future’s default setting. States and countries have set deadlines by which combustion engine cars that consume fossil fuels and produce pollutants will no longer be sold. As a result, major automakers have decided to…
Heat Waves: Thousands Of Victims.
Despite the serious threat extreme heat presents to our health and economy, people tend to perceive intense heat differently from other climate disasters. Heatwaves don’t get the same attention as a flood or a hurricane, because the damage isn’t as visually obvious. But that’s not to say that heatwaves aren’t causing concern. For example, professional…
Everything You Need To Know About Acid Rain.
What Is Acid Rain? During the 1970s and 1980s, “acid rain” was one of the most well-known environmental problems in Europe and North America. It was often featured in news reports and was sometimes mentioned in daily newspapers, television series and other forms of media. The visibility of acid rain in the media, however, has…
A comprehensive guide on foraging.
Initially, humans were hunter-gathers and obtained their food from nature. However, with modernization and evolution, we slowly moved away from this lifestyle and are more and more dependent on others to provide us with food sources. Foraging is a way of going back to our roots and gaining an insight into how our ancestors harvested…