Sustainability(Page 11)

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What’s the best straw?
Environment

What’s the best straw?

By Eleanor Cummins

What kind of reusable bag is best for the planet?
Environment

What kind of reusable bag is best for the planet?

By Ula Chrobak

We need a greener way to die
Environment

We need a greener way to die

By Nicole Wetsman

These sandals replace petroleum with sugarcane. How smug can I be about wearing them?
Environment

These sandals replace petroleum with sugarcane. How smug can I be about wearing them?

By Rob Verger

11 easy ways you can help save the planet this Earth Day
Environment

11 easy ways you can help save the planet this Earth Day

By Rachel Feltman

People are spending more time at home.
Environment

Staying in is good for the environment

By Marlene Cimons

anesthesia
Health

Hospitals are scrambling to solve their air pollution issue

By Nicole Wetsman

ford factory roof
Environment

Companies are realizing that renewable energy is good for business

By Ellen Airhart

This smart window uses electricity to quickly change from clear to dark
Technology

This smart window uses electricity to quickly change from clear to dark

By Rob Verger

Here’s how you can actually help stop climate change
Environment

Here’s how you can actually help stop climate change

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

A blue pipe that connects a bathroom, sewage separation tanks, a sewage mixing tank, a filtration machine, a natural body of water, and a water filtration plant, showing the cycle of making sewage drinkable.
Technology

How to make sewage drinkable

By Sara Chodosh

We’re Catching Millions Of Tons More Fish Each Year Than We Report
Environment

We’re Catching Millions Of Tons More Fish Each Year Than We Report

By Mary Beth Griggs

Mealworms Eating Styrofoam
Environment

Mealworms Can Happily And Safely Eat Styrofoam

By Mary Beth Griggs

6 Things You Should Know About Lab Diamonds
Environment

6 Things You Should Know About Lab Diamonds

By Rebecca Harrington

Saving The Planet Could Save Your Life
Health

Saving The Planet Could Save Your Life

By Mary Beth Griggs

8 Steps To Sustainable Meat And Milk
Environment

8 Steps To Sustainable Meat And Milk

By Emily Gertz

The Garbage Man
Environment

The Garbage Man

How a Lab of College Students Invented the World’s Best Home Blast-Chiller
Environment

How a Lab of College Students Invented the World’s Best Home Blast-Chiller

By Colin Lecher

How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America
Environment

How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America

By Clay Dillow

Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights
Environment

Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights

By Julie Beck

A man in blue Popular Science coveralls holding a dumbbell made out of old CDs, pointing at the camera, and yelling.
DIY

PopSci 5-Minute Project video: CD dumbbell

By Popular Science Team