As Florida cities have grappled with rising recycling costs in recent years, some local governments have scrapped the practice altogether. In 2019, for instance, the city of Deltona cited a shrinking demand for recyclable material, like plastic and glass, before suspending its weekly residential recycling pickup. A year later, DeerfieldContinue Reading
Few shape Pittsburgh’s high-tech future like the heirs to its industrial past. Since its new strategic plan kicked off in 2021, the Richard King Mellon Foundation — Pittsburgh’s wealthiest foundation, with an endowment over $3 billion — has invested more than $3.3 million in for-profit startups aligned with their philanthropicContinue Reading
Realtor Nikki Carchedi. Image courtesy of Stone House Properties. $8,000,000 property is most expensive property sold in the Berkshires MLS Alford— Nestled in the hills of Alford sits a fairy-tale house straight out of the Cotswolds or Tudor England. The magical handcrafted home was built in 2011 by the sellers,Continue Reading
Photo illustration by Leon Neal/Getty Images Britons are reducing their energy usage to save money this winter – and to help prevent climate change, according to new Ipsos polling shared with the New Statesman. According to the study, which explores how people are coping with rising energy costs as wellContinue Reading
Joe Biden will head to Egypt next week to tout America’s re-emergence as a leader on the climate crisis at the Cop27 talks. But he will be landing in a continent that the US continues to pour billions of dollars into for fossil fuel projects, with seemingly no end inContinue Reading
Maria Cotto, of East Hartford, says good morning to crossing guard Wendy Gabriel as she walks her grandson, Percy Diaz, 7, to school. Cotto, who has asthma, does this every morning. Robert Carmon shows off his basketball skills at the court off Glade Street near his West Haven home. HisContinue Reading
UK pension funds are worth approximately £3tn with this huge wealth invested in assets all over the world. If you are eager to reduce your carbon footprint, making your pension “green” is 21 times more effective than giving up flying, becoming a vegetarian and changing an energy provider combined, accordingContinue Reading
Companies are under increasing pressure from regulators to report on their biodiversity impacts The Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures recently produced draft guidance, ‘the closest we’ve got to agreed best practice’, according to CDP’s Thomas Maddox Efforts by governments, environmental groups and companies to address deforestation in landscapes, suchContinue Reading
Environmental services teams (EVS) are crucial players in ensuring patient satisfaction and combating health care–associated infections, yet, too many EVS teams are invisible. They deserve recognition, and this article by environmental hygiene experts explains why and how to give appreciation effectively. Few jobs are as important and often as thanklessContinue Reading
The Big Plastic Count, an experiment led in May this year by Greenpeace and Everyday Plastic involving almost 100,000 homes, revealed that an average household throws out 66 items of single-use plastic packaging in one week – the equivalent of 3,432 items in a year. How can you shrink thatContinue Reading
