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How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

NPR’s Planet Money recently released an episode where they tell the story of how big plastic companies convinced the public to recycle more. At that…

21. October 202021. October 2020
Categories Environment

Coal Produces More Radioactive Contamination Than Nuclear Energy

The Scientific American has an interesting article: “Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste“. Coal is known to kill thousands of people a year….

31. August 202031. August 2020
Categories Environment

The Environmental Impact of Food

Our World in Data has an article with a series of very interesting graphics about the environmental impact of food, such as this one: The…

19. August 202019. August 2020
Categories Environment

The World Is Greener Now Than 20 Years Ago

Link of the day: NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks To China, India In contrast to the perception of China…

9. April 20207. April 2020
Categories Daily Posts

Monday, 23.03.2020 – How Cars Conquered Cities

Link of the day: Did Cars Save Our Cities From Horses? There is an interesting story that cars helped to make cities much cleaner in…

23. March 202023. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Environment, Uncategorized

Sunday, 22.03.2020 – Rethinking Aviation

Link of the day: Why did the half-plane, half-helicopter not work? For quite a while now I have been thinking about green air travel. The…

22. March 202022. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Economics, Environment

Monday, 09.03.2020 – China’s Economic Slowdown And Effects On The Environment

Link of the day: Airborne Nitrogen Dioxide Plummets Over China NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) pollution monitoring satellites have detected significant decreases in nitrogen…

9. March 20207. March 2020
Categories Environment

Your Green Electricity Might Not Be As Green As You Think

Most energy suppliers nowadays offer green energy. In many if not most cases however, this does not mean what consumers would usually think it does…

16. February 202013. February 2020
Categories Environment

Thursday, 13.02.2020 – How Climate Change Harms The Fossil Fuel Industry

Link of the day: Energy Markets Need Winter, and Climate Change Is Taking It Away Oh the irony. The global fossil fuel industry relies heavily…

13. February 202012. February 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Environment

Tuesday, 11.02.2020 – Scotland On Track to Reach 100% Renewable Energy in 2020

Link of the day: Scotland On Track to Reach 100% Renewable Energy in 2020. Also: Wikipedia on this Scotland was at over 74% in 2018…

11. February 202010. February 2020

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