Every flush of a standard toilet creates a several-gallon problem. Instead of wasting water, plants and animals can transform human waste into water rated pure enough to drink.
Species like green crabs, feral pigs, snakeheads, and zebra mussels cost $120 billion a year in damage. For a cheaper alternative, try eating them instead.
In 2003, Iraqi townspeople, having just lost their hospital in U.S. air strikes, saved the lives of three wounded U.S. peacemakers. Seven years later, the Americans returned鈥攖o thank them.
Gleaned from letters, essays, and articles, 鈥淧ete Seeger: In His Own Words鈥 reveals how the celebrated folk singer has considered, at every turn, what it means to sing out in a world where the din of injustice is deafening.
Can a boat be designed to clean the water? How does a spider manufacture resilient fiber? We need products that don鈥檛 harm us or the environment, and nature鈥檚 already done the research.
A California proposal would offset the state鈥檚 climate-altering emissions by paying for forest conservation in Chiapas. Could there be unintended consequences in a region with a history of human rights abuse and land grabs?
It's more than buying stuff. It means reckoning with the intersection between our humanity and the political and environmental decisions our society makes.