Green Innovation

The Death Of Our Oceans: Oil Giants Invests $180 BILLION in Plastics

Scientists and environmental protection advocates are warning that a coming plastics boom could lead to a permanent state of pollution on the planet—and denouncing the fossil fuel industry for driving an...

Hemp Is Officially Legalized As President Trump Signs The New Farm Bill

IN BRIEF The Facts:With Donald Trump's signature on the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp is now legal in the United States once again. Reflect On:Can...

Australia Slashes Plastic Bag Use By 80 Percent In Just 3 Months – Here’s How They Did It

Down Under is overcoming plastic pollution. In only three months, Australia has cut its plastic bag usage by 80 percent, according to the country’s National Retail...

Company Reveals the World’s First Prefab House Composed Entirely of Hemp

In the near future, citizens around the world will have the opportunity to live in economical, sustainable, and secure housing made entirely from hemp, a...

Australia Found a Way to Save Water From Plastic Pollution and We Can Start Doing the Same

This past summer authorities from the Australian city of Kwinana installed a new filtration system in the Henley Reserve. This system is unbelievably simple...

Sweden Runs Out of Garbage

When Sweden runs out of its own garbage, it offers a service to the rest of garbage-bloated Europe: importing excess waste from other countries Imagine...

Scientists Found an Edible Mushroom That Eats Plastic – And It Could Clean Our Landfills

It looks like George Carlin is right again, even more than ten years after his death. In his famous “Saving the Planet” standup comedy...

Dead Whale Found in Philippines Had 88 Pounds of Plastic Bags in Its Stomach

A young whale carcass that washed up in in the Philippines has been found to have died after consuming about 88 pounds (40 kilograms)...

The U.S. Sucks at Recycling, and This 9-Year-Old Is Trying to Fix It

If you've ever used a recycling bin in the U.S., you'll probably recognize Recycle Across America's standardized labels, which clearly indicate which recycling bins...

Coca-Cola Admits It Produces 3.3 Million Tons of New Plastic Packaging Per Year

(The Mind Unleashed) The world is literally swimming in the filth produced by private industry, with our oceans becoming a vast dumping-ground for waste...

Horrific Images Raise Awareness Of Plastic Pollution Of The World’s Oceans

(EP Blog) The wildlife NGO Sea Shepherd has started a new campaign using computer-generated images of marine animals choking to death with plastic bags...