climate change

This article was updated on March 3rd, 2021. Today we celebrate World Wildlife Day, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2013. Today not only marks the day the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna…Read More

Not only are we in a new year, we are in a new decade and 20 years into the 21st Century. How did that happen? I feel I blinked and the last twenty years just went by in a flash.…Read More

We’ve all done it. You forgot your water bottle at home, so you buy a plastic water bottle at the supermarket. Or you were too tired to rinse out your plastic salad container, so you throw it in the trash…Read More

This past Wednesday, the European Union set a massive green goal — become the first climate neutral continent by 2050. The EU, which began as a conglomerate of six countries in 1958, has grown to include 28 countries (although this number may change…Read More

In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) declaring “the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion,…Read More

Microsoft Corporation, the technology giant based in Washington, is a multinational company responsible for everything from personal laptops and phones to software and licenses. Oh – and did I mention underwater datacenters? Those too.  In 2013, a team of five…Read More

Eco18 recently attended the third Regenerative Earth Summit: SOIL + WATER + CLIMATE, joining global leaders in Boulder, Colorado to learn how they are tackling climate change and the health of the planet through the power of commerce and collaboration.…Read More

We are in an age that some scientists have called “the sixth extinction” because anywhere between 30 percent to 50 percent of species of flora and fauna are expected to go extinct by the middle of this century, according to…Read More

Imagine a river filled to the brim with all the toxic materials and waste your city creates. Don’t forget to include the herbicides from farms, the metals from roofs, and the petroleum from cars. Now imagine the rain comes and…Read More

One of the youngest of the bear species is the Polar Bear and the largest carnivorous land mammal on Earth. Males can weigh up to 1700 pounds and measure 7 to 8 feet nose to tail with a lifespan of…Read More