Households who fail to recycle properly could soon be hit with a fee by their local council in a bid to reduce landfill waste The plans, reported by BusinessWaste.co.uk, would see local authorities charge individuals whose households incorrectly put recyclables into general waste bins, causing a bigger strain on landfill sites. Despite huge increases in […]

Nothing in life is easy. It may seem like something is, but I believe that is just because we’ve been doing whatever it is for a long time. “It’s as easy as riding a bike,” is one of my favorites, for I distinctly remember it not being even the slightest bit easy when my dad […]

Around 90% of American households recycle these days, which is a great thing. There’s just one little thing that needs work. Well, one little thing in addition to getting that number up another ten points. Many of us are tossing things into our recycling bins that we shouldn’t. That’s a big problem because a few […]

Taking care of one of our own is the core of human nature, so helping our mother earth shouldn’t be that much of a stretch. We all know and continuously hear how the environment is degrading day by day, yet we do nothing to sustain our resources. Though the large-scale companies play a significant role […]

The Environmental Humanities Initiative — a one-year-old university-wide collaboration that spans myriad disciplines and connects two historic strengths of the university, humanities and environmental studies — has had a “ripple effect” across campus. The initiative aims to deepen understanding of how nature and culture are interconnected, says its lead faculty coordinator, Paul Sabin, professor of […]

Global soft drink companies have made their biggest commitment yet to eliminating the use of throwaway plastic bottles, in an action plan presented to parliament. In a report sponsored by the likes of Danone, Suntory and Nestlé, the companies give unequivocal backing to a government-implemented deposit and return scheme. Their ambition is for zero plastic […]

By Laura Desmond “If it was easy, everyone would do it.” — anonymous I’ve spent much of my career as an entrepreneur and investor building companies that sell to educational institutions and advising entrepreneurs who sell to them. Selling to educational institutions is, if not the biggest, one of the biggest challenges to scaling an education startup. […]

By Millena Miller There’s not one secret recipe to becoming an amazing social media manager (if only it were that easy), but making sure you have the full range of essential skills to do the job well certainly helps. And it’s a good time to be getting in the game. Social media manager was number […]

By Laura Desmond Facebook is planning a major new move into e-commerce, sources tell The Verge Instagram is working on a new standalone app dedicated to shopping, The Verge has learned. The app — which may be called IG Shopping — will let users browse collections of goods from merchants that they follow and purchase […]

By Alex Mardikian Hawaii has passed a bill to ban sunscreens that contain oxybenzone and octinoxate. These chemicals have beenproven as being extremely harmful to Hawaii’s marine ecosystems. Waikiki is just one of the many areas to have suffered from exceedingly high levels of oxybenzone and octinoxate. The coral reefs of Hawaii are a major […]