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Is Your Bathroom Breeding Bolsheviks?

Kate Yoder / Grist Apr 23, 2025 How your showerhead got roped into the culture wars. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Massive Floating Boom Will Corral Pacific Ocean’s Plastic Trash

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ / The Associated Press Sep 8, 2018 A barrier and screen equipped with high-tech cameras, sensors and satellite antennas will be towed from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—an island of trash twice the size of Texas. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

An Unexpected Alternative to Fossil Fuels: Waste

Paul Brown / Climate News Network Sep 24, 2017 What used to be considered waste is now seen as raw material for producing biogas, a viable energy alternative to nuclear and fossil fuels. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Toxic Waste Sites Run by the Pentagon Are Poisoning Americans

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2017 A report by ProPublica reveals how the military is using unsafe methods to destroy hazardous waste at sites across the country. (Pictured, nerve gas incinerators in Utah.) Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The U.S. Military — What a Waste

By William D. Hartung / TomDispatch Apr 11, 2016 Squandering vast sums of taxpayer money is a way of life for the Department of Defense. With that in mind, let’s take a little tour through the highlights of Pentagon waste from the 1960s to the present. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

A ‘Circular Economy’ Could Save Resources and Energy and Create Local Jobs

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 28, 2016 Profound, unnecessary waste characterizes our relationship with the goods and materials of everyday life. “There is an alternative,” explains Walter Stahel, a veteran sustainability architect. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Useful Waste Is a Win-Win for Energy and Food

By Paul Brown / Climate News Network Feb 3, 2016 An unsung success story in the switch to renewable energy is the use of waste to produce gas -- and a valuable byproduct. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Will Lebanon’s ‘Garbage Revolution’ Usher In a Secular State?

Juan Cole / Truthdig Sep 5, 2015 The country's youths are taking to the streets, demanding restoration of trash collection and other public services and an end to government corruption. At the root of the turmoil: the politics of religious identity. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Too Warm, Too Few Fish: Health Warning for World’s Oceans

By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network Aug 27, 2015 Rampant overfishing combined with the impact of climate change is seriously endangering the well-being of the oceans, environmental analysts say. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

California Water Officials Are Some of the State’s Biggest Guzzlers

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Oct 10, 2014 The Center For Investigative Reporting has a scandalous expose on the hypocritical practices of public servants who waste millions of gallons watering their own desert lawns while demanding that other Californians conserve. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tourism Pollution

Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City Dec 24, 2013 Dig deeper

Pentagon Wasting Millions Duplicating HHS Anti-Bioterror Program

BLANK Nov 24, 2013 The Los Angeles Times reports that the Pentagon is building a multimillion-dollar facility in northern Florida to, in effect, duplicate research already being done by the Department of Health and Human Services. That's one expensive turf battle. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )