This past Tuesday, British Greenpeace campaigners took a straightforward approach to encouraging alternative forms of travel: They set up booths at four British airports and offered free train tickets to airline passengers.
They were soon escorted out, and no one took the tickets.
The Greenpeacers were out to make the point that airplane travel is 10 […]
Until recently, I hadn’t heard much about food security. It’s an update to phrases like “solving world hunger,” which seems somewhat impossible. Food security sounds more accessible. It can be defined as existing “when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences […]
Cartography aficionado Naomi directed me this morning to Strange Maps, a blog featuring all kinds of… strange maps.
The most recently posted map is by far the most arresting, if not the strangest. It replaces all fifty states with the names of countries, according to their equivalent GDPs. So technically, I’ve lived in the economies […]
Is it possible to turn soda into water? Coca-Cola believes it is. On Tuesday, the company pledged to return back to nature every drop of water it uses to make its bottled drinks. If that sounds ambitious, it is. Last year, Coke used 290 billion gallons of water worldwide to make its line of beverages.
Coke […]
Last week, Earth & Sky featured a radio show about carbon offsets. Carbon offsetting is the system of paying companies to invest in projects to neutralize your carbon emissions. Climate scientist Ken Caldeira called carbon offsets “questionable” because there is no concrete way to measure how the offsets you pay for actually affect carbon […]
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