Tag: Recycling
How Taiwan uses Buddhist literature for environmental education
Natasha Heller, University of Virginia
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges that the world faces. A United Nations report has cautioned that greenhouse...
Designing batteries for easier recycling could avert a looming e-waste crisis
Zheng Chen, University of California San Diego and Darren H. S. Tan, University of California San Diego
As concern mounts over the impacts of climate...
Do sports teams’ sustainability efforts matter to fans?
Brian P. McCullough, Texas A&M University
While the sport sector’s environmental impact is not fully understood, it has a social platform and reach to influence...
Millions of burnt trees and rusted cars: Post-disaster cleanup is expensive,...
Sybil Derrible, University of Illinois at Chicago; Juyeong Choi, Florida State University, and Nazli Yesiller, California Polytechnic State University
The most destructive and costliest wildfire...
How to boost recycling: Reward consumers with discounts, deals and social...
Magali (Maggie) Delmas, University of California, Los Angeles
You finish that last sip of morning coffee and stare at the empty paper cup in your...
How to boost recycling: Reward consumers with discounts, deals and social...
Magali (Maggie) Delmas, University of California, Los Angeles
You finish that last sip of morning coffee and stare at the empty paper cup in your...
Mining powers modern life, but can leave scarred lands and polluted...
Matthew Ross, Colorado State University
Modern society relies on metals like copper, gold and nickel for uses ranging from medicine to electronics. Most of these...
Removing mini-shampoos from hotel rooms won’t save the environment
Yossi Sheffi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
InterContinental Hotels Group will replace mini-shampoos and conditioners with possibly more efficient bulk products by the year 2021.
But environmental...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
