Earth Week Land Planet Water What is Zero Waste? Learn About the Sustainability and Its Importance Written by Raf Chomsky August 16, 2023August 20, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Zero Waste offers hope amid growing waste crisis. By reusing, recycling, and composting, it aims to eliminate waste, conserve resources, and reshape consumption.
Earth Week The 10 biggest moments in the climate movement you need to know Written by Sustainable Review April 21, 2021February 6, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Happy Earth Week! These are the 10 biggest moments in the modern climate movement. Let us know what you think!
Earth Week Earth Day Future Friday: 2020 and beyond Written by Sustainable Review April 24, 2020February 6, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked “It is worse, much worse, than you think.” Welcome to Earth Day, 2020 edition. For future Friday, we are exploring the 2020s and beyond as it relates to the environmental movement. Are we talking about coronavirus? No, we’re talking about climate change. That quote comes from David Wallace-Wells, the author of The Uninhabitable Earth. Emissions […]
Earth Week Earth Day 50th anniversary: Exploring the 2010s Written by Sustainable Review April 23, 2020February 6, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Our Earth Day series started with the 1970s and rounds out as we make our way toward the most recent decade – the 2010s. The remarkable rise of social media defined this decade. Our Facebook and Twitter profiles enable us to connect, share ideas, argue, and organize in ways that no one could have predicted. […]
Earth Week Earth Day 50th Anniversary: Exploring the 2000s Written by Sustainable Review April 22, 2020February 6, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Welcome to Earth Day, 2000s edition. The decade of 9/11, foreign wars, tech takeovers and financial ruin. As we entered the 21st century, the world increasingly understood climate change. From natural disasters to failed diplomatic initiatives, we describe some of the most defining environmental developments of the 2000s below. It was yet another disappointing decade, […]
Earth Week Earth Day 50th anniversary: Exploring the 1990s Written by Sustainable Review April 21, 2020February 6, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Welcome to Earth Day, 1990s edition. The U.S. population was 250 million. The Berlin Wall was collapsing. Fresh Prince, Home Improvement and Friends filled our TV screens. Gameboys were the ‘next big thing’. Yes, frosted tips, flat tops and boy bands everywhere. These are the biggest events of the environmental movement of the 1990's that dominated the decade.
Earth Week Earth Day 50th anniversary: Exploring the 1980s Written by Jared Wolf April 20, 2020February 6, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Welcome to the second installment in our Earth Day series, the 1980s. The decade started with a win for environmental justice and the literal “defining moment” for sustainable development. Everything was bigger in the 1980s – big hair, leg warmers, and boom boxes, big phones, big junk bonds and trading scandals, and, of course, the advent of MTV and personal computing. It also may have been the decade in which we “lost Earth”. The second half of the decade included one of the most successful international environmental negotiations and brought climate change and its impacts to the public consciousness for the first time. This is Earth Day, 1980s edition.
Earth Week Earth Day 50th Anniversary: Exploring 1970 and beyond Written by Sustainable Review April 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked This is the 1970s: Watergate, Star Wars, heavyweight boxing, leisure suits, big hair, rock and roll. Add environmentalism to the list. Richard Nixon is most well known for the Watergate scandal, but he was also one of America’s most environmentally influential presidents, and some of his accomplishments are noted below. The first half of the 1970s was marked by governmental actions that had significant impacts both in America and abroad. The second half of the decade included a series of environmental disasters that raised widespread consciousness into the importance of protecting our planet.