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Blueland sources eco-friendly household products for you! 14 billion pounds of our trash is dumped into the ocean each year. Sarah Paiji Yoo, CEO and co-founder of Blueland, is on a mission to make a difference on plastic waste. Cleaning up the planet starts with cleaning up your homes, which is why Blueland creates cleaning…

The “green” Joe Biden The United States officially rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement last week. The Keystone XL Pipeline was canceled. Climate action has been defined as an urgent national security threat. The federal government has committed to a transition to an electric vehicle fleet. The 11th hour, 59th minute Arctic Wildlife Refuge oil lease sale is…

When a river is a person: from Ecuador to New Zealand New Zealand passed its first rights for nature law in March 2017. In the early 2000s, the idea of giving legal rights to nature was on the fringes of environmental legal theory and public consciousness. There, the Whanganui River, which flows across the North Island, has…

8 Ways to Rebuild a Stronger Ocean Economy After COVID-19 If the ocean were a nation, it would rank as the 7th largest economy in the world. This article suggests 8 ways to rebuild the ocean economy. Almost no facet of our global economy has been immune to the COVID-19 crisis. The long arm of…

How Do Farmers Think about Climate Risk? *In this study, Vermont farmers identified many site-specific risks that they associate with extreme weather and climate change. From their standpoint, these risks are not new. Rather, they represent familiar risks that are being intensified by recent climate changes.What do farmers worry about? Flooding and erosion. They were especially…

Employing soil health systems It’s amazing what happens to crop yields when we take care of the soil. It doesn’t come without changing the way we farm. Check out the 6 principles below in this handy chart. These simplified handouts summarize many of the ways we can create healthier soil in a short period of…