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Google’s Third Decade Of Climate Action: Realizing A Carbon-Free Future
A few years ago flooding devastated Chennai, where I grew up. Seeing the images of the city—which had…
2020-09-15
How Cities Can Combat The Dangerous Combination Of Extreme Heat And COVID
Labor Day Weekend usually signals the end of summer, but this year, it seems like the record heat…
2020-09-06
Hurricanes And Wildfires Are Colliding With The COVID-19 Pandemic – And Compounding The Risks
With the Hurricane Laura hitting Louisiana and Texas as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm and wildfires menacing…
2020-08-28
How To Protect Your Garden From Raccoons
Nurturing a vegetable garden can be a rewarding experience. But it can quickly become challenging if pests such…
2020-08-26
How To Conserve Energy In Your Warehouse
Warehouses are huge, breathing beasts that have their workforce as their heartbeat. On the surface it may seem…
2020-08-20
Need A Break From City Life? Gaze At The Stars
Since man’s inception, he has gazed awestruck at the stars. Space has long been a thing of fascination,…
2020-08-19
Climate Risks In COVID-19 Pandemic
Amid the pandemic, the climate crisis takes the backseat. How can we stay on track? The COVID-19 pandemic…
2020-08-13
How To Choose The Best Steam Mops For Your Pets
If you’re a parent to super cute and cuddly fur babies, you know how tough it is to…
2020-08-12
The Dark Secret Of The Electric Vehicle Revolution
The dramatic surge in demand for electric vehicles brings a dark secret into the spotlight. Last year, 2.2…
2020-08-12
Extinction Is Forever: De-Extinction Can’t Save What We Had
When I hike up into the hills around Salt Lake City, above the Bonneville Shoreline Trail where the…
2020-08-07
What You Can Do To Prevent Your New Puppy From Pooping Indoors
Getting a puppy represents an important step in your life. Although the majority of us will melt at…
2020-08-06
Tips For Keeping A Dog In A College Dorm
Students are very busy people as they have to manage a lot of things at the same time:…
2020-08-04
Recycling Your Trash Is Very Important – Here’s Why
There was a time when no one paid much attention to recycling. Today, however, and as the world…
2020-07-29
How Business Industry Incorporates ESA
One of the best methods used in therapy is prescribing Emotional Support Animals (ESAs). ESAs are always prescribed…
2020-07-23
Raising A Happy And Healthy Cat: Things To Consider
Raising a pet is a big commitment and investment. Besides loving, nurturing, and playing with your little furball,…
2020-07-08
7 Fast Food Chains That Prevent Food Waste Through Donation
According to studies, a single restaurant can waste around 25,000 to 75,000 pounds of food in a year. …
2020-07-07
Measures To Ensure Sanitation In The Workplace
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many workplaces are implementing measures to ensure a viral outbreak can…
2020-07-03
Popular American Dog Breeds That Might Interest You
Having a dog for a pet brings forth numerous benefits not only for your health but for your…
2020-06-29
Dog Anxiety Problems – How Can You Help It
A dog is known as man’s best friend and it’s a wonderful experience owning one. Not only do…
2020-06-19
The Urbanization Of Raccoons In US Cities
Raccoons are extremely intelligent, incredibly adaptable, and strangely cute! They are also known as “Nature’s Bandit”. This wild…
2020-06-18
How Can Urban Farming Feed The World?
The infusion of data, automation, and agriculture may be the solution to global food security. By the year…
2020-06-16
How To Look After Your Pet In Hot Weather
As the weather gets warmer, it brings many advantages: we can spend more time outdoors enjoying the sunshine.…
2020-06-16
4 New Ways Pet Ownership Is Changing
Taking care of pets have increasingly changed over the years. People do not think of them as mere…
2020-06-11
7 Interesting Facts About Rubbish
Unfortunately, whatever we do as humans these days tends to produce some kind of waste material. Whether it’s…
2020-06-09
How A Global Ocean Treaty Could Protect Biodiversity In The High Seas
Oceans cover 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface. But, because many of us spend most of our…
2020-06-08
Running Out Of Space: What Happens When Cemeteries Are Full
Running out of burial space is becoming a real problem in certain parts of the world today, and…
2020-06-07
Tips And Tricks To Train Your Dogs Effectively
Conducting so much research prior to getting a dog was an overwhelming process, deciding which breed is best…
2020-06-05
Everything You Need To Know About Air Pollutants And How To Handle Them
Thinking of polluted air generally spurs images of clouded urban landscapes, old car exhausts, and energy-hungry factories. And…
2020-06-02
Easy Ways To Test Your Water’s Safety
Getting uncontaminated drinking water at home is one of the most essential basic needs of our civilization. In…
2020-06-01
How City Streets Are Being Transformed During COVID-19 Lockdown
After COVID-19, some city streets might never revert to how they were before the lockdown. Global-scale lockdowns have…
2020-05-28
The Geopolitics Of A Changing Arctic
The Arctic is experiencing drastic changes. Along with these changes are greater challenges to face. The Arctic region…
2020-05-26
How Tech Helps To Stop City Smog From Ruining The Indoor Air Quality
A quick walk to the store or down to the subway might not seem like a big deal,…
2020-05-25
Five Ways To Go Green Without Giving Up Your Vehicle
If you’re worried about the environment and want to do your part to reduce your carbon footprint, one…
2020-05-22
Why Is Tap Water Not Safe Anymore Even In High Quality Cities
Over the last few decades, the mainstream media has been inundated with horror stories about the water we…
2020-05-22
8 Zero-Waste Home-Based Strategies For A Healthier Planet
The effort to make your carbon footprint go down might have already shown results, but you feel like…
2020-05-21
Owning An ESA Is A Long-Term Commitment – Here’s Why
When it comes to owning an animal it’s never a short-term deal, we should always go into the…
2020-05-12
5 Tips For A Small Business To Improve Their Recycling Efforts
For a long time, many businesses turned a blind eye to recycling. Instead of seeing it as a…
2020-05-06
4 Emerging Trends And Challenges For Renewable Energy In 2020
Economic slowdown, trade tensions, and recently, a global pandemic are some challenges that can impede the growth of…
2020-05-06
Air Quality Improves Significantly Amid COVID-19 Lockdowns
COVID-19 lockdowns are depleting air pollution levels even in the world’s most air-polluted cities. Real-time data from the…
2020-04-29
The World’s 10 Greenest Countries
These countries are ranked the greenest in the world, according to the Good Country Index. Out of 153…
2020-04-25
Earth Day 50: An Earth Day Unlike Any Other
This year, Earth Day leads the call for greater action in tackling the climate crisis. April 22 marks…
2020-04-22
Reshaping Climate Action In A Post-Pandemic World
The COVID-19 pandemic teaches valuable lessons on how to better act on the climate crisis. For the first…
2020-04-22
How Does Per Capita Energy Consumption Vary Across The World?
According to Our World In Data, the average per capita consumption of the world has increased by 45…
2020-04-16
How Coronavirus Puts Climate Activism In Quarantine
These days, all the focus is on the Coronavirus, which is justified. But in the meantime, climate activism…
2020-04-13
The Importance Of Connecting People With Nature In Times Of Social Isolation
Measures to the address COVID-19 pandemic that rely on social distancing and social isolation are placing a huge…
2020-04-07
How To Design And Build An Eco-Friendly Smart Home
Smart cities can only come to fruition once homes themselves have been optimized. This is a bit of…
2020-04-06
Coronavirus: Three Ways The Crisis May Permanently Change Our Lives
The realisation that life is going to change for a good while is starting to take hold. To…
2020-03-24
The Flu Pandemic Of 1918: Modern Parallels From A Century-Old Pandemic
The influenza pandemic of 1918 (also known as the Spanish flu, even though it didn’t originate in Spain)…
2020-03-23
The 4 Plausible Futures Of The World: Humans Inc.
Depending on the state of the planet and society, the world will reach one of four possible, highly…
2020-03-23
The 4 Plausible Futures Of The World: Extinction Express
Arup’s recently published white paper, 2050 Scenarios: four plausible futures, discussed how certain choices of humanity at present…
2020-03-20