According to a new Greenpeace USA report, most plastic cannot even be recycled. Out of the 51 million tons of plastic waste produced by the U.S. in 2021, only about 2.4 million tons were actually recycled. And what happened to the rest? Sent to China, the dump, or,...
{download as b/w leaflet .pdf} A majority perspective Look around you. We are not alone! A recent poll1 shows that 72% of adults in the U.S., believe global warming is happening and threatening life as we know it; 65% believe that we should do more to address global...
Hurricane Fiona swept through Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean in the last days of summer, almost exactly five years after Hurricane Maria killed more than three thousand people on the island. Fiona was a weaker storm than Maria, but it still totally shut...
The Earth is in crisis. Many parts of the world are facing devastating droughts. In parts of Africa and China continuing droughts have resulted in the spread of deserts making large areas uninhabitable. In the U.S. and Europe, heat waves are followed by massive...
In the last week of August, the water system of Jackson, Mississippi has failed completely to meet even the most basic water needs of its population. The immediate causes were days of unusually heavy rains that caused a local river to overflow, flooding homes and...
