By Christopher Thompson As the effects of climate change become increasingly dire around the world, conscious organizations and individuals are considering how to lessen their own detrimental impact on the environment. Unnecessary waste is of particular concern in the travel realm, given the abundance of single-use items that come with your average accommodation (think: mini […]

With the help of data from the past 15 years, a new NASA study shows that warming of the tropical oceans due to climate change could lead to a substantial increase in the frequency of extreme rain storms by the end of the century. The research team found that extreme storms formed when the sea […]

Dungog Library is the latest organisation to jump on board to make Dungog the first town in Australia to become single-use plastic free. Single-use plastic bags, bottles, take away coffee cups and straws are the four items that are overwhelmingly used just once and thrown away with the new initiative aiming for the community to “choose reusables” by […]

It’s 2018, and facts are facts: We are in the midst of a plastic epidemic. It’s in our trash cans, it’s in our landfills, it’s in our oceans. At this rate, there will be 12 billion metric tons of plastic in landfills by 2050, a number that’s difficult to even fathom. This raises the question: […]