Sustainability
I want to recycle some stuff, but I don’t think there’s a local program. I’ll research what’s available. I forgot about plastic bags that can be sent to stores. I have many plastic bags at home. I will have to ask the local grocery store to see if they will take them.
“In the U.S., shopping bags, wraps, and films aren’t accepted in most municipal curbside recycling programs. However, many of these thin, flexible plastics are acceptable for store drop-off at your local grocery store or big box retailers.” - Daniel Penge
CATL’s new Shenxing LFP battery just clocked a 6-minute full charge, beating BYD’s Blade 2.0. It hits 10-98% in 6:27 and even handles -30°C temps with ease. We’re officially reaching gas-station speeds for EV refueling. Amazing! Will we finally switching from gas powered to electric powered soon?
Baseline in Broomfield, CO, is a world-first neighborhood designed by scientists to restore insect habitats. With 170 acres of native plants, pollinator counts jumped from 500 to 3,800 in just two years—proving suburbs can be biodiversity hotspots.
Netflix gets more eco-friendly! 🌍 By 2030, they aim to halve emissions, already seeing huge wins: The Witcher slashed fuel by 90%, The Boroughs in New Mexico cut diesel by 75%, and Apex in Australia used hydrogen to halve fuel use. Happy Belated Earth Day! 🌿🎬
There are only 51 Rice’s whales left on Earth. They live exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico — that’s their whole world. Today, the Trump administration’s “God Squad” voted to strip their Endangered Species Act protections so oil drilling could proceed unobstructed. No energy company even asked for this.
That would be devastating if those whales are gone. No more whale watching. Can you imagine that?
As one law professor put it:
“If Trump is successful here, he could be the first person in history to knowingly extirpate a species from the face of the earth.”
New research finds the U.S. has caused roughly $10 trillion in global climate damage through its emissions since 1990 — more than any other country. The bill is real. The tab keeps growing. And we’re still arguing about whether it’s a problem.
Donald Trump has accelerated this abrogation, however, withdrawing the US from a loss and damage fund set to up aid vulnerable countries, as well as removing the country from global climate treaties, urging a “drill, baby, drill” approach to oil and gas extraction, and taking extraordinary measures to hobble domestic clean energy projects.
Paris spent a decade ripping out car lanes and replacing them with 550km of bike paths, pedestrian squares, and actual trees — one of the most ambitious urban transformations on the planet. The results are real. Amazing! The hard part now is keeping that momentum going after Hidalgo leaves office.
OK so what if we could solve two problems at once — plastic pollution & crumbling roads? Researchers are mixing recycled plastic into asphalt. It actually works. Stronger roads, fewer potholes, survives 100°F+ heat. Texas already has a test mile. Wild, right?
Photo by Chris Dreyer on Unsplash
Here’s something wild: an old Texas coal mine is now a garden feeding 3,000 people a year. The Dewey Prairie Garden near Jewett grows 10,000 pounds of produce for local food pantries—turning land that once powered plants into something that actually nourishes families. Pretty cool redemption story.