States crack down on food waste, starting with cafeterias and cafes
Sep 3, 2015, 7:05 am By John Light
By 8 a.m. most days, brothers Adam and Don Collins are piloting a truck full of unwanted food…I’m off the water grid, so do I still need to take short showers?
Sep 3, 2015, 6:01 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. We live in a drought-stricken part of California (i.e., we live in California), but we get our…Climate change will cause the death of one Earth and the birth of another
Sep 2, 2015, 7:25 pm By Lizzie Wade
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…How our screwed-up CEO pay system makes climate change worse
Sep 2, 2015, 7:20 pm By Chuck Collins
Runaway CEO pay at the 30 largest U.S. public fossil fuel corporations rewards short-term actions,…Denmark wages war on food waste
Sep 2, 2015, 6:47 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
You know what’s better than a fresh danish? An old danish on its way to the trash. According to…Google-powered map shows that deforestation isn’t just about the Amazon
Sep 2, 2015, 6:11 pm By Clayton Aldern
When you hear deforestation, you might think Brazil. It’s a fair association: Over the past four…Dear architects: Stop trying to make shipping container buildings happen
Sep 2, 2015, 6:00 pm By Heather Smith
There are about 120 million shipping containers around the world at any given moment, doing what…Hungry polar bears trap Arctic researchers
Sep 2, 2015, 4:27 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Earlier this summer, we found out that some polar bears like to skip hibernation in order…Grey swans are extremely rare, damaging storms. How will climate change affect them?
Sep 2, 2015, 2:14 pm By Andrea Thompson
Black swans are catastrophic events that no one sees coming, while “grey swans,” as they are…U.S. restaurants are terrible at getting wasted food to the hungry. Can we change that?
Sep 2, 2015, 12:58 pm By John Light
There’s a bagel place two blocks north of my apartment. During the day, it serves hundreds of…What can a president do to boost renewable energy? A lot
Sep 1, 2015, 8:13 pm By Ben Adler
When Hillary Clinton was asked in July whether she would ban fossil fuel extraction on public lands,…Bees and flowers have a special relationship, and climate change is screwing it up
Sep 1, 2015, 7:51 pm By Clayton AldernClimate change — as it is for pretty much all life forms — is a huge bummer for bees. If…Gamers guzzle a crazy amount of energy
Sep 1, 2015, 7:23 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
The average gaming computer guzzles as much energy as three refrigerators — three…Marijuana industry struggles with devastating wildfire season
Sep 1, 2015, 4:33 pm By Clayton Aldern
The burners may have left for Black Rock City, but there’s still a lot burning on the West Coast.…Climate change will do strange things to this hungry little microbe
Sep 1, 2015, 4:18 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
For CO2-eating bacteria, climate change is kind of a sweet deal. It’s like someone…Iceland turned an old coal plant into a haven for artists and entrepreneurs
Sep 1, 2015, 4:14 pm By Scott Shigeoka
Incongruously placed at the center of the Elliðaárdalur valley in Reykjavík, Iceland, is a large,…Many U.S. Catholics haven’t heard of Pope Francis’ climate push
Sep 1, 2015, 1:59 pm By James West
This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Pope Francis has so far…These charts show how much worse fires have gotten in your state
Sep 1, 2015, 1:21 pm By Brian Kahn
The West continues to be a fiery inferno as August fades into September. Wildfires have exploded…Obama gets apocalyptic as he talks climate change in Alaska
Sep 1, 2015, 12:23 pm By Lisa Hymas
President Obama kicked off a three-day climate-centric tour of Alaska on Monday with a speech that…Want your energy efficiency program to succeed? Aim it at poor people
Sep 1, 2015, 6:14 am By Heather Smith
So, say you are a government, and you want to persuade people to conserve electricity — because…
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