Cloth masks, while better than nothing, are not as good at protecting against the omicron coronavirus variant, and additional options should be considered…
Cloth masks, while effective against other coronavirus variants, are not as effective against the omicron variant (although, happily, cloth masks have reduced the incidence of...
The price of fossil fuels, which are heavily subsidized by taxpayers, does not reflect the true cost of fossil fuels use to human health or to the planet…
Time to stop fossil fuels welfare. More information here: https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/charted-5-trillion-in-fossil-fuel-subsidies/
Lifestyle: Good news for down jacket fans, down can be recycled! Interesting read here…
From Patagonia, a responsible clothing manufacturer: https://www.patagonia.com/our-footprint/recycled-down.html
Lifestyle: Tired of throwing things out, many turn to “right to repair” legislation…
Planned obsolescence is bad for consumers and bad for the planet. Learn more here, from Wirecutter: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/what-is-right-to-repair/
New York Times ignores unpleasant facts about Florida’s Ron DeSantis…
Informative read and/or listen from Press Run: https://pressrun.media/p/new-york-times-ron-desantis
Man-caused climate change is here, and its impacts on the oceans are best not ignored…
An important read, from ScienceNews: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ocean-extreme-heat-wave-past-climate-new-normal
The taxpayers get ripped off as mine owners take the money and run, leaving the mess behind…
An informative read, from High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-mining-the-dizzying-scope-of-abandoned-mine-hazards-on-public-lands
Another way the oil and gas industry takes the money and runs, leaving taxpayers to clean up the mess: abandoned wells…
On top of everything else, those abandoned wells provide an avenue for fracking fluids to contaminate aquifers (another environmental catastrophe in the making). An interesting...