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ARTICLES IN THE NEWS
ANIMAL NEWS
Trump Has Been Very Bad for Vulnerable Animals. The Administration May Finally Have to Change Its Behavior. | Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Mother JOnes | February 27th, 2020
Dead Birds Washing Up by the Thousands Send a Warning About Climate Change | Sabrina Shankman | Inside Climate News | January 15th, 2020
How Many Animals Are Killed for Food Every Day? | Sentient Media | November 2019
House Unanimously Approves Bill to Make Animal Cruelty a Federal Offense | Neil Vigdor | The New York Times | October 23rd, 2019
What I learned documenting the last male northern white rhino’s death | Ami Vitale | National Geographic | October 2019
What we lose when animals go extinct | Elizabeth Kolbert | National Geographic | October 2019
Tufted Puffins, Gray Wolves, and Grizzlies: 9 Species Likely Screwed Thanks to Trump’s Endangered Species Rollbacks | Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Mother Jones | September 27th, 2019
Inside the efforts to help animals hurt by the Amazon fires | Natasha Daly | National Geographic | September 26th, 2019
Why won't USDA enforce the Animal Welfare Act? | Cathy LIss | The HIll | September 21st, 2019
A Stunning New Study Shows How Fast North America’s Birds Are Disappearing | Abigail Weinberg | Mother Jones | September 19th, 2019
California Becomes First US State To Ban Fur Trapping | Maria Chiorando | Plant Based News | September 5th, 2019
Why Are So Many Progressives Horrible When It Comes to Animals? | Ari Solomon | Veganista | August 28th, 2019
Trump administration reverses decision to use 'cyanide bombs' to kill wild animals | Jimmy Tobias | The Guardian | August 15th, 2019
Why Doesn't The Mainstream Media Report On Animal Rights Issues? | Plant Based News | August 14th, 2019
Trump administration overhauls Endangered Species Act as critics fear animal extinction | Doyle Rice | USA Today | August 12th, 2019
Delaware is being recognized as the first no-kill state for animal shelters | Amanda Jackson | CNN | August 11th, 2019
Trump administration authorizes 'cyanide bombs' to kill wild animals | Jimmy Tobias | The Guardian | August 8th, 2019
Harvard Law School Launches Animal Law and Policy Clinic | Sentient Media | August 5th, 2019
The TL;DR on that report that says we’re killing off everything | Zoya Teirstein | Grist | May 6th, 2019
USDA Terminates Deadly Cat Experiments, Plans To Adopt Out Remaining Animals | Vanessa Romo | NPR | April 2nd 2019
New Delaware Law Protects Community Cats | Alley Cat Allies | October 2nd, 2018
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION | CLIMATE CHANGE TOPICS
Earth Day: Greta Thunberg calls for 'new path' after pandemic | Jonathan Watts | The Guardian | April 22nd, 2020
Modernizing Meat Production Will Help Us Avoid Pandemics | Liz Specht | Wired | March 13th, 2020
Trump Removes Pollution Controls on Streams and Wetlands | Coral Davenport | New York Times | January 22nd, 2020
Urgent new ‘roadmap to recovery’ could reverse insect apocalypse | Patrick Greenfield | The Guardian | January 6th, 2020
No land, no problem. Floating solar panels might be the next big thing. | Maria Gallucci | Grist | December 2nd, 2019
How old cell phones are spying on illegal loggers | Stephanie Bailey | CNN | November 27th, 2019
Wine Moguls Destroy Land And Pay Small Fines As Cost Of Business, Say Activists | Alastair Bland | NPR | November 18th, 2019
Scientists Warn of “Untold Human Suffering” Without Major Climate Action | Abigail Weinberg | Mother Jones | November 5th, 2019
11,000 scientists say that the ‘climate emergency’ is here | Miyo McGinn | Grist | November 5th, 2019
11,000 scientists warn of 'untold suffering' caused by climate change | Emma Tobin and Ivana Kottasová | CNN | November 5th, 2019
Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods | Michael A Clark, Marco Springmann, Jason Hill & David Tilman | PNAS | October 28th, 2019
Rising Seas Aren’t Even the Scariest Part of Climate Change in the Oceans | Rebecca Leber | Mother JOnes | September 25th, 2019
The World’s Oceans Are in Danger, Major Climate Change Report Warns | Brad Plumer | New York Times | September 25th, 2019
World 'losing battle against deforestation' | Mark Kinver | BBC News | September 19th, 2019
Berkeley triggered a chain of anti-gas laws | Nathanael Johnson | Grist | September 17th, 2019
The silenced: meet the climate whistleblowers muzzled by Trump | Oliver Milman | The Guardian | September 17th, 2019
How Trump may bulldoze 'America's Amazon' | Bill Weir | CNN | September 13th, 2019
Global food producers 'failing to face up to role' in climate crisis | Harriet Grant | The Guardian | September 4th, 2019
The Amazon is burning. The climate is changing. And we're doing nothing to stop it | Nick Paton Walsh | CNN | September 4th, 2019
After the wildfire: treating the mental health crisis triggered by climate change | Dean Kuipers | The Guardian | August 26th, 2019
The Amazon is burning because the world eats so much meat | Eliza Mackintosh | CNN | August 23rd, 2019
Amazonia on fire: 'The earth isn’t dying. It’s being killed.' | Melissa Breyer | Tree Hugger | August 22nd, 2019
Arctic permafrost is thawing fast. That affects us all. | Craig Welch | National Geographic | September 2019 Issue
The Amazon is burning at record rates—and deforestation is to blame | Sarah Gibbens | National Geographic | August 22nd, 2019
California's disappearing sea snails carry a grim climate warning | Richie Hertzberg |National Geographic | August 20th, 2019
Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change | By Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer, Dale Jamieson | Scientific America Blog | August 19th, 2019
Some animals can adapt to climate change—just not fast enough | Jenny Howard | National Geographic | August 19th, 2019
The water is so hot in Alaska it's killing large numbers of salmon | Ryan Prior | CNN | August 17th, 2019
How do countries cover climate change? Depends how rich they are. | Kate Yoder | Grist | August 15th, 2019
Exposure to polluted air is like smoking a pack a day, study says | Katie Hunt and Jen Christensen | CNN | August 14th, 2019
'Snow droughts' are coming for the American West | Alejandra Borunda | National Geographic | August 14th, 2019
A university has banned beef to help fight climate change | Rob Picheta | CNN | August 13th, 2019
Scientists studied 2,500 coral reefs to figure out how to save them | Ashley Strickland | CNN | August 12th, 2019
The Trump administration gutted one of our most powerful environmental laws | Nicole Javorsky | Grist | August 12th, 2019
Greenhouse gases reach record levels, report finds | Brandon Miller and Wayne Drash | CNN | August 12th, 2019
Planting Trees Is Good. Eliminating Deforestation Is Better. | Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Mother Jones | August 8th, 2019
Change food production and stop abusing land, major climate report warns | Isabelle Gerretsen | CNN | August 8th, 2019
Climate crisis reducing land’s ability to sustain humanity, says IPCC | Damian Carrington | The Guardian | August 8th, 2019
World food crisis looms if carbon emissions go unchecked, UN says | Stephen Leahy | National Geographic | August 8th, 2019
Fish aren’t food, they’re marine wildlife | Blue Planet Society | Blog
We must change food production to save the world, says leaked report | Robin McKie | The Guardian | August 4th, 2019
How an accelerated warming cycle in Alaska’s Bering Sea is creating ecological havoc | Yereth Rosen | Arctic Today | July 31st, 2019
As of today, humans have used more resources than Planet Earth can regenerate in a year | Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries | CNN | July 29th, 2019
Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months | Matt McGrath | BBC | July 23rd, 2019
Berkeley became first US city to ban natural gas. Here's what that may mean for the future | Susie Cagle | The Guardian | July 23rd, 2019
How 21 meddling kids could force a climate turnaround | Zoe Sayler | Grist | July 22nd, 2019
Scientists memorialize the first glacier lost to climate change in Iceland | Allen Kim | CNN World | July 22nd, 2019
Rainforest on Fire - On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon, Brazil’s Forest Communities Fight Against Climate Catastrophe | Alexander Zaitchik | The Intercept | July 6th, 2019
Emission impossible? Harsh facts on climate change | Simon Kuper | Financial Times | July 3rd, 2019
Revealed: rampant deforestation of Amazon driven by global greed for meat | Dom Phillips, Daniel Camargos, Andre Campos, Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal | The Guardian | July 2nd, 2019
EPA: Factory Farms Don’t Need to Report Emissions | Civil Eats | July 1st, 2019
Intact Forests in the United States: Proforestation Mitigates Climate Change and Serves the Greatest Good | William R. Moomaw, Susan A. Masino and Edward K. Faison | Frontiers in Forests and Global Change | June 11, 2019
Indian villages lie empty as drought forces thousands to flee | CNN | June 11th, 2019
Arctic melt: Threat beneath the ice | Arwa Damon | CNN | June 8th, 2019
Michael Bloomberg unveils $500 million initiative to help shutter the nation’s coal-fired plants | Nick Visser | Grist | June 7th, 2019
I studied factory farms for years — but visiting one was far worse than I ever imagined | Dr. Aysha Akhtar | Raw Story | June 8th, 2019
Finland pledges to become carbon neutral by 2035 | Jon Henley | The Guardian | June 4th, 2019
Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon surges to record high | Jonathan Watts | The Guardian | June 4th, 2019
Lost in the (sea)weeds on climate? This newsletter will kelp | Chip Giller | Grist | June 3rd, 2019
Britain in two-week coal-free record | BBC News | May 31st, 2019
Climate solutions: Now served in restaurants everywhere | Hari Pulapaka | Grist | May 31st, 2019
Leading a mobile movement on air pollution | UN environment | May 28th, 2019
Scared About City Chemicals? Don’t Be. She Did Every Test in the Book. | Emily Holden | Mother Jones | May 28th, 2019
The one sure way to convince a climate denier | Zoe Sayler | Grist | May 23rd, 2019
Greta Thunberg On the cover of TIME: ‘Now I Am Speaking to the Whole World’ | Plant Based News | May 16th, 2019
Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction: Landmark UN-backed report finds that agriculture is one of the biggest threats to Earth’s ecosystems | Jeff Tollesfson | Scientific America | May 6th, 2019
Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction | Jeff Tollefson | Scientific America | May 6th, 2019
Nature Crisis: Humans “threaten 1m species with extinction’ | Matt McGrath | BBC News | May 6th, 2019
The most effective ways to curb climate change might surprise you | Drew Kann, Will Houp, Judson Jones, and Sean O'Key | CNN | April 19th, 2019
Let nature heal climate and biodiversity crises, say campaigners | Damian Carrington | The Guardian | April 3rd, 2019
Switching to plant-based protein could increase America’s food supply by a third | The Economist | October 16th, 2018
Beavers—Once Nearly Extinct—Could Help Fight Climate Change | Simon Worral | National Geographic | August 24th, 2018
Small Tweaks to Effortlessly Help the Environment | Rachael Schultz | January 13th, 2018
Livestock Production Drinks Up Water in Drought-Stricken California | Alastair Bland | Comstock’s Magazine | November 3rd, 2016
Meat, Water and Global Warming | Alastair Bland | Comstock’s Magazine | October 31st, 2016
Agriculture, nutrients and the health of fish | United Nations Environment Programme | October 26th, 2016
This Huge Loophole Helps the Meat Industry Hide Its Pollution | Nathan Halverson | Mother Jones | January 5th, 2016
These aerial shots of factory farming look like bloody zombie wounds | Holly Richmond | Grist | August 26th, 2013
Adaptation: How can cities be “climate-proofed”? | Eric Klinenberg | The New Yorker | December 30th, 2012
CAFO conviction: Court holds factory farm accountable for water pollution | Kai Olson-Sawyer | Grist | February 15th, 2012
The Melting Arctics Impact On Its Ecosystem | Nature - PBS KQED | June 10th, 2008
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE | PESTICIDES
Providence shows other cities how environmental justice is done | Zoey Sayler | Grist | November 1st, 2019
Farmworkers, the backbone of Napa Valley's economy, face health challenges | Courtney Teague | Napa Register | October 5th, 2019
Vineyard sues management company over lost crop due to accidental spraying of herbicide | Napa Register | September 20th, 2019
The Pesticide Industry Has Wanted to Gut Endangered Species’ Protections. Under Trump, It’s Happening.| Susie Neilson | Mother JOnes | July 26th, 2018
Kids on the Frontline: California Factsheet | Pesticide Action Network | May 2016
Failing to Protect California School Kids | Pesticide Action Network | February 2016
Chlorpyrifos Alternatives in California | Pesticide Action Network
Kids on the Frontline | Pesticide Action Network
Environmental Justice | Pesticide Action Network
PLASTICS & WASTE POLLUTION
New Report Confirms: Recycling Is BS | Lloyd Alter | Treehugger | September 14th, 2020
Coke and Pepsi sued for creating a plastic pollution ‘nuisance’ | Erin McCormick | The Guardian | February 27th, 2020
Single-use plastic: China to ban bags and other items | BBC News | January 20th, 2020
The missing 99%: why can't we find the vast majority of ocean plastic? | Stephen Buranyi | The Guardian | December 31st, 2019
Revealed: microplastic pollution is raining down on city dwellers | Damian Carrington | The Guardian | December 27th, 2019
Climate Connection: Living with less plastic | Chris Benz | Napa Register | December 1st, 2019
Recycling isn’t working – here are 15 ways to shrink your plastic footprint | Emily Holden | The Guardian | November 27th, 2019
How cities are using technology to solve their trash problems | Nell Lewis | CNN | November 27th, 2019
Big plastic polluters accused of cynically backing US recycling day | Emily Holden & Oliver Milman | The Guardian | November 15th, 2019
War on plastic waste faces setback as cost of recycled material soars | Jillian Ambrose | The Guardian | October 13th, 2019
'Everywhere we looked': trillions of microplastics found in San Francisco bay | Maanvi Singh | The Guardian | October 4th, 2019
'It's extremely depressing': tiny turtle dies after eating 104 pieces of plastic | Poppy Noor | The Guardian | October 4th, 2019
California lawmakers fail to pass sweeping plastic pollution plan | Paul Rogers | Mercury News | September 14th, 2019
Most ambitious US law to tackle single-use plastics faces make-or-break moment | Maanvi Singh | The Guardian | September 13th, 2019
Today’s Special: Grilled Salmon Laced With Plastic | Liza Gross | Mother JOnes | September 12th, 2019
Students at one Australian school will take home more than just their homework. They're carrying out their trash, too. | Phillip J. Victor | CNN | August 30th, 2019
Marriott, the world's largest hotel chain, is eliminating travel-sized toiletries | Jordan Valinsky | August 29th, 2019
This group is teaching new sailors how to tackle plastic pollution | Paola Rosa-Aquino | Grist | August 27th, 2019
Tesco promises to ban brands that use excessive packaging | Jasper Jolly | The Guardian | August 22nd, 2019
Microplastics discovered in 'extreme' concentrations in the North Atlantic | Arwa Damon and Brice Laine | CNN | August 20th, 2019
'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish? | The Guardian | August 17th, 2019
A baby dugong that became a Thai internet star died with plastic waste in its stomach | Emily Dixon | CNN | August 17th, 2019
There's a new culture divide between Trump and corporate America | Zachary B. Wolf | CNN | August 14th, 2019
It’s raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains | Maanvi Singh |The Guardian | August 13th, 2019
Coke and Pepsi abandon the plastics lobby | Danielle Wiener-Bronner | CNN | August 5th, 2019
The five: species affected by plastic pollution | Dani Ellenby | The Guardian | August 4th, 2019
World's most endangered mammal 'to be extinct within a year', scientists say | Phoebe Weston | The Independent | July 31st, 2019
Plastic bag sales down 90% since introduction of 5p charge | Gov.UK | July 31st, 2019
Ocean plastic is changing the blood chemistry of seabirds | Josh Davis | Natural History Museum | July 29th, 2019
How Plastic-Industry Pollution Threatens Gulf Seafood | Julie Teel Simmonds | Medium | July 29th, 2019
Tour de France condemned over ‘avalanche’ of 15 million bits of plastic thrown to crowd | Harry Cockburn | The Independent | July 27th, 2019
Yes, Recycling is Broken | Leyla Acaroglu | Medium | July 22nd, 2019
Mother Sperm Whale And Baby Die After Getting Tangled In Fishing Net | Liam Gilliver | Plant Based News | July 20th, 2019
Waste Only How the Plastic Industry Is Fighting to Keep a Polluted World | Sharon Lerner | The Intercept | July 20th, 2019
9 deer in a sacred sanctuary in Japan have been found dead with plastic in their stomachs | CNN | July 11th, 2019
It's Plastic-Free July: How Can Businesses And Individuals Help The Planet? | Mary-Anne Mills | Plant Based News | July 10th, 2019
Bali Bans Single-Use Plastic To Cut Down On Ocean Pollution | Liam Gilliver | Plant Based News | July 9th, 2019
How Plastics Are Clogging the Ocean, Even Before You Toss that Bottle Away | Julissa Treviño | Mother Jones | July 4th, 2019
Bird feeding chick cigarette end captured in picture | BBC | July 2nd, 2019
Here’s how one town manages to send nothing to the landfill | Cerith Gardiner | Aleteia | July 1st, 2019
Ocean cleanup effort drags 5-TON 'ghost net' of abandoned fishing gear from the Pacific 'garbage patch' as part of huge plastic haul | Cheyenne Macdonald | The Daily Mail | July 1st, 2019
For Animals, Plastic Is Turning the Ocean Into a Minefield | National Geographic | June 2018
Watch out, Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This ocean cleanup device MIGHT work this time. | Molly Enking | Grist | June 27th, 2019
Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it's gone | Susie Cagle | The Guardian | June 24th, 2019
Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills, investigation shows | Erin McCormick and Charlotte Simmonds in San Francisco, Jessica Glenza in New York, and Katharine Gammon in Los Angeles | The Guardian | June 21st, 2019
Never gonna give you up: how plastic seduced America | Susan Strasser | The Guardian | June 21st, 2019
Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste | Shashank Bengali | LA Times | June 17th, 2019
Plastic pollution worsens despite efforts to address the problem | Sarah Min | CBS News | June 17th, 2019
Canada plans to ban 'harmful' single-use plastics by 2021 | Ben Westcott | CNN | June 10th, 2019
Canada to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021 | BBC News | June 10th, 2019
Engineers build vacuum to clean microplastics in sand | BBC News | June 9th, 2019
India's trash mountains are a fetid symbol of the country's plastic problem | Helen Regan | CNN | June 7th, 2019
If you drink bottled water, you could double how many microplastic particles you ingest, study says | Susan Scutti | CNN | June 5th, 2019
Oxford Waitrose Unpacked campaign: Shoppers give verdict | BBC News | June 4th, 2019
How to make biodegradable 'plastic' from cactus juice | BBC News | June 4th, 2019
Newborn Hawaii beach is already polluted with tiny pieces of plastic | Sarah Gibbens | National Geographic | May 30th, 2019
The final straw: England bans plastic items from April 2020 | Jack Guy |CNN | May 22nd, 2019
Mediterranean Garbage Patch: Huge New ‘Island’ of Plastic Waste Discovered Floating in Sea | Aristos Georgiou | The Newsweek | May 21st, 2019
These tiny microbes are munching away at plastic waste in the ocean | Helen Santoro | Science | May 20th, 2019
Beach cleanups are missing millions of pieces of plastic | Laura Parker | National Geographic | May 16th, 2019
The plastic industry is on track to produce as many emissions as 600 coal-fired power plants | Zoya Teirstein | Grist | May 16th, 2019
Ocean Plastic Pollution Is Harming The Bacteria That Helps Us Breathe, Study Says | Pam Wright | The Weather Channel | May 14th, 2019
Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag | Rebecca Morelle | BBC | May 13th, 2019
Over 180 countries - - not including the US - - agree to restrict global plastic waste trade | Rob Picheta and Sarah Dean | CNN | May 11th, 2019
World Migratory Bird Day: birds globally threatened by plastic waste | United Nations Environment Programme | May 9th, 2019
Emaciated deep-water dolphin found on Florida beach had plastic bags and balloon in stomach | ABC News | April 29th, 2019
Seaweed pouches will replace thousands of plastic bottles at London Marathon | Ivana Kottasová | CNN Business | April 27th, 2019
700 Marine Species That Might Go Extinct Due to Plastic Pollution | Kate Good | One Green Planet | April 2019
These 5 Marine Animals Are Dying Because Of Our Plastic Trash…Here’s How We Can Help | Corrine Henn | One Green Planet | April 2019
There’s a scary amount of plastic in the ocean. Here’s who put it there | Tim McDonnell | Grist | February 13th, 2019
Plastic pollution seems like such an overwhelming problem. What can I do? | Eve Andrews | Grist | February 9th, 2019
Our plastic, our selves | Eve Andrews | Grist | February 6th, 2019
A running list of action on plastic pollution | Brian Clark Howard, Sarah Gibbens, Elaina Zachos, and Laura Parker | National Geographic | January 17th, 2019
Here Is How Much Plastic Trash Is Littering The Earth | Laura Parker | National Geographic | December 20th, 2018
The World’s Plastic Problem is Bigger Than the Ocean | Then Conversation | November 13th, 2018
Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament | BBC News | October 24th, 2018
My Plastic Free Journey | Lynn Mignola | Plastic Pollution Coalition | October 8th, 2018
Our Plastic Oceans | The Week | July 23rd, 2018
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic (and Recycling) | National Geographic | April 4th, 2018
Microplastics ‘pose major threat’ to whales and sharks, scientists warn | Josh Gabbatiss | Independent | February 5th, 2018
Microplastics killing fish before they reach reproductive age, study finds | Fiona Harvey | The Guardian | 2017
Edible six-pack rings are a brilliant answer to plastic pollution | Katie Herzog | May 23rd, 2016
By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans, study says | Sarah Kaplan | Washington Post | January 20th, 2016
Untangling Both a Whale and Why Marine Life Gets Mixed Up in Our Trash | NOAA Office of Response and Restoration | October 29th, 2014
POLITICS & THE ENVIRONMENT
White House unveils plan for major projects to bypass environmental review | The Guardian | January 9th, 2020
Revealed: Trump’s Wildlife Service pick has ties to anti-animal protection groups | Jimmy Tobias & Emily Holden | The Guardian | September 25th, 2019
Why 10,000 farmers have gotten behind the Green New Deal | Leah Douglas | Grist | September 21st, 2019
Trump Administration Rolls Back Clean Water Protections |Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport | The New York Times | September 19th, 2019
The secret to Democrats winning the midwest: fight big agriculture | George Goehl | The Guardian | September 4th, 2019
Major Climate Change Rules the Trump Administration is Reversing | John Schwartz | New York Times | August 29th, 2019
Jay Inslee Dropping Out of 2020 Race, Will Run For Governor Again | New York Times | August 22nd, 2019
Canada election: Charities warned against climate change ads | BBC News | August 19th, 2019
Trump Administration Approves Use Of 'Cyanide Bombs' To Kill Wild Animals | LIam Gilliver | Plant Based News | August 11th, 2019
I'm a scientist. Under Trump I lost my job for refusing to hide climate crisis facts | Maria Caffrey | The Guardian | July 25th, 2019
Donald Trump's five most dangerous attacks on the environment | Miranda Bryant | The Guardian | July 8th, 2019
Jay Inslee Says He May Defy the DNC on a Climate Change Debate | Rebecca Leber | Mother Jones | June 6th, 2019
Donald Trump Said Really Stupid Things About Climate Today. Here Are 8 Facts He Ignored. | Fiona Harvey | Mother Jones | June 5th, 2019
Trump’s EPA Exempts Factory Farms From Reporting Harmful Emissions | Hannah Conner | Center for Biological Diversity | June 4th, 2019
DowDupont Lavishes Campaign Cash On Politicians Who Voted Against a Ban on its Blockbuster Pesticide | Tom Philphot |Mother Jones | May 24th, 2019
Maine passes the U.S.'s first state ban on foam food packaging | Laura Parker | National Geographic | May 2nd, 2019
Can hamburgers survive the Green New Deal? The facts behind Trump and Ocasio-Cortez’s latest beef | Nathanael Johnson | Grist | February 22nd, 2019
RECYCLING & WASTE
Disturbing Photo Shows a Black Skimmer Feeding a Cigarette Butt to Its Chick | Tara Santora | Audubon | August 1st, 2019
How you're recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpaste | Charlotte Simmonds | The Guardian | June 17th, 2019
We’re all recycling wrong, so companies are finally trying to make it easier | Catharine Smith | Grist | June 2nd, 2019
Could making recycling pay save the planet? | Tim Harford | BBC News | May 29th, 2019
A Norwegian Tech Company Is Solving the Plastic Recycling Crisis | Sophia Cai | Barron’s | May 29th, 2019
Malaysia bans 'recycled' waste | BBC News | May 28th, 2019
A Remote Australian Archipelago Is Home to Roughly 600 People and 414 Million Pieces of Trash | Jessica Leigh Hester | Mother Jones | May 18th, 2019
London Marathon | How do you reduce the environmental impact? | Helier Cheung | BBC | April 26th, 2019
Philippines’ Duterte Talks Trash (Literally) to Canada, Threatening War Over Garbage | NPR | April 24th, 2019
China plastic waste ban throws global recycling into chaos | Sam Reeves | Yahoo News | April 23rd, 2019
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic (and Recycling) | National Geographic | April 4th, 2018
Plastic bags a headache for recyclers | Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz | Chicago Tribune | July 30th, 2015
Good product, bad package: top sustainable packaging mistakes | Amy Wu | The Guardian | July 18th, 2014
WATER
Water Rate Hike in Rural Town Becomes Tax Battle Royale | Maria Dinezo | Courthouse News Service | May 5th, 2020
How Pespi and Coke make millions bottling tap water, as residents face shutoffs | Ryank Felton | The Guardian | April 23rd, 2020
Supreme Court rules beaches can be protected from sewage that flows underground | David G. Savage | LA Times | April 23rd, 2020
‘Megadrought’ in the West could become worst drought in history, scientists say | Maddie Capron | The Sacramento Bee | April 20th, 2020
Droughts exposed California’s thirst for groundwater. Now, the state hopes to refill its aquifers | Erik Stokstad | Science AAAS | Apr. 16th, 2020
Megadrought Conditions Not Seen for 400+ Years Have Returned to the West, Scientists Say | Kevin Stark | KQED | April 16th, 2020
Congress calls on Nestle to answer for its water-bottling practices in California and beyond | Mark Olalde | Desert Sun | March 6th, 2020
‘The water wars have begun.’ Some wonder how water plan will impact Merced County farms | Abbie Lauten-Scrivner | Merced Sun-Star | December 15th, 2019
Wine Moguls Destroy Land And Pay Small Fines As Cost Of Business, Say Activists | Alastair Bland | NPR | November 18th, 2019
Sonoma County drills wells to study groundwater sustainability | Guy Kovner | Press Democrat | November 11th, 2019
Race to the Bottom | Rich Pauloo | September 30th, 2020
Opinion: Expand California groundwater regulation statewide | Sandi Matsumoto | Mercury News | September 27th, 2019
The Water Wars of Arizona | Noah Gallagher Shannon | The New York Times | July 19th, 2018
San Juan Capistrano - Prop 218 | Stanford - Water in the West | October 10th, 2013
ZERO WASTE
It's time to ignore Instagram's portrayal of zero waste | Katherine Martinko | Tree Hugger | May 20th, 2019
This Jar Represents One Family's Waste For An Entire Year | Peter O’Dowd | Here & Now | May 20th, 2019
The complicated gender politics of going zero waste | Alden Wicker | May 9th, 2019
BOOKS
PLASTIC REDUCTION
All You Need Is Less | Madeleine Somerville
Plastic Free | Beth Terry
Plastic Purge | Michael SanClements
Sustainable Home | Christine Liu
Zero Waste Home | Bea Johnson
MINIMALISM
Clutterfree with Kids | Joshua Becker
Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living | Linnea Dunne
Lightly | Francine Jay
Simple Matters | Erin Boyle
The Joy of Less | Francine Jay
GREEN | ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES
Drawdown | Paul Hawken
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter | Ben Goldfarb
BOOKS FOR KIDS: YOUNG ECOLOGISTS & NATURALISTS
A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology | Aldo Leopold
Because They Matter | Cindy Traisi
Farewell to Shady Glade | Bill Peet
Rascal | Sterling North
Saving Winslow | Sharon Creech
The Gnats of Knotty Pine | Bill Pete
There’s an Owl in the Shower | Jean Craighead George
The best books about green living for children of all ages | Zofia Niemtus |The Guardian
What are the best eco books for children and teens? | Emily Drabble | The Guardian
EDUCATIONAL TOOLS
Infographics | Less Plastic
VIDEOS | CLIPS
"A Plastic Pollution Solution Hiding in Plain Sight" | The Story of Stuff Project
California’s Plastic Revolution | The Story of Stuff Project
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
'Fate Of Food' Asks: What's For Dinner In A Hotter, Drier, More Crowded World? | Terry Gross - Fresh Air | NPR | June 3rd, 2019
Going plastic-free with kids | BBC | August 14th, 2018
Inside the Garbage of the World
Monsanto: The Company that Owns the World’s Food Supply
Plastic Paradise The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Plastic Planet - Documentary
The Arctic farmer trying to make his town more sustainable | BBC News | May 15th, 2019
The Story of Cosmetics | The Story of Stuff Project
The Story of Microbeads | The Story of Stuff Project
The Story of Microfiber | The Story of Stuff Project
The Story of Stuff
What The Health - Documentary
Where Your Plastic Ends Up- The Story of Plastics | The Story of Stuff Project
WEBSITES
5 Gyres
Alliance to End Plastic
Balloons Blow
Cowspiracy - The Susutainabilty Secret
Friends of the Earth
Less Plastic
Oceana
Plastic Pollution Coalition
Plastic Soup Foundation
The Story of Stuff
