If we’re not burning dirty fossil fuels ourselves, we hardly notice they’re happening. We’ve talked before about how much of our electricity is actually powered by fossil fuels (around 63%, at last count) and how easy it is to forget that when we talk about “saving power” in our homes, we’re still talking about carbon…
The Battle for Renewable Energy Starts Much Smaller Than We Think
Renewable energy is the goose that lays the golden egg – those who seek to find a way to halt climate change in its tracks and sever our ties to dangerous, dirty fossil fuels are all looking for the big, one-size-fits-all solution. Will it be solar power? After all, the sun is the source of all…
The Easiest Time to Cancel Fossil Fuels is… Now
Since the pandemic and subsequent global shut-down seems to be heralding a new era in which our dependence on fossil fuels is not only cruel and unnecessary, but much more costly, it’s a wonderful time to take stock of where we’re overusing crude oil. There are some huge things we’re accomplishing as a collective society – whether out…
Is Vertical Farming the Future of Sustainable Food Sourcing?
Picture huge, industrialized fields of waving wheat and corn and soy in the American midwest. That’s about the size of our collective understanding of where America’s food supply comes from. If we know a little bit more, we can use words like “monoculture” and “pesticides.” Maybe you’ve read a few of Rachel Carson’s books, so…
Learning the Lingo to Go Green
The human instinct is to trust and believe. That’s a beautiful thing. In order to immerse ourselves in the sustainable, ethically-sourced, bioavailable world rising up around us, we’ve got to understand the terms being used. Otherwise, you run the risk of endorsing and empowering the wrong companies – and not the ones who are really out…