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Category: Recycling

What Lifestyle Changes Will Shrink Your Carbon Footprint The Most?–How To Take Steps That Will Make A Difference

05/16/2020 Don Wallace

To keep global temperatures from rising too quickly, we need to re-engineer our society away from fossil fuels. A 2015…

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Posted in: Climate, Energy, Food, Mass Transit, Recycling Filed under: Drawdown, Lifestyle

Zero-waste warriors: meet the people whose household rubbish fits in a jam jar

05/06/2020 Bob Grove

From making their own toothpaste to foraging locally for edible plants, more and more people are learning to cut the…

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Posted in: Recycling Filed under: Food, Food Choices, Plastic, Zero-Waste

Mayors Lucas and Kelly Keynote EF20 Online

03/15/2020 Bob Grove

Mayors Quinton Lucas of Kansas City Missouri and Mike Kelly of Roeland Park Kansas will keynote the online Climate Speakers…

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Posted in: Climate, Energy, Food, Mass Transit, Policy, Recycling

Coronavirus sends Earth Festival ONLINE

Bob Grove

In response to the pandemic outbreak, Kansas City’s 2020 Earth Festival is moving online. This week-long series of online actions…

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Posted in: Climate, Energy, Food, Mass Transit, Policy, Recycling

Fast Fashion: The Environmental Impact of What We Wear

03/01/2020 Climate Council

On February 19th, the President of Climate Council of Greater Kansas City, Bob Grove, presented an event at the Kansas…

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Posted in: Climate, Recycling Filed under: Fast Fashion, Landfill, Recycling

How Peer Pressure Can Help Stop Climate Change

02/22/2020 Don Wallace

Buying hybrids and solar panels persuades other people to buy them. That dynamic can help stop climate change. The environmental…

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Posted in: Climate, Policy, Recycling Filed under: Activism

Bicycles Provide Homeless with Climate-Friendly Solution To Their Transportation Needs

11/24/2019 Bob Grove

Used Bicycles, Cycling Gear Needed for Homeless People. Climate change poses the greatest threat to those that are the least…

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Posted in: Recycling Filed under: Biking, Climate Equity, Recycling, Social Equity, Social Justice, Transportation

Cheap, Throwaway “Fast Fashion” Clogs our Landfills Forever

11/11/2019 Bob Grove

The average American household throws away 70 pounds of textile waste each year. That’s 23,098,090,330 tons of textile waste annually…

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Posted in: Recycling Filed under: Fast Fashion, Landfill, Recycling, Slow Fashion

Despite Individual Health Benefits There Are Environmental Downsides To Vacations

06/01/2019 Don Wallace

The carbon footprint of tourism grew four times as much as expected from 2009 to 2013, and accounted for 8%…

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Posted in: Energy, Recycling Filed under: Carbon Footprint, Tourism

The Question: Is Fast Fashion a Climate Problem?

05/27/2019 Mary Ann Warfield

First: What is Fast Fashion? “Fast fashion can be defined as cheap, trendy clothing, that samples ideas from the catwalk…

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Posted in: Climate, Recycling Filed under: Fast Fashion

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