What’s For Dinner? A Sustainable Solution for Reducing Food Waste
By: Amanda Davidson Image Courtesy of Unsplash Most everyone can relate to phrases about not wasting food. “Finish your plate,” might be...
- Nov 1
- 2 min
Bribery, Corruption and Our Environment
By: Caroline Sloan Image Courtesy of Unsplash Bribery is a form of corruption defined as “ the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting...
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- Nov 1
- 3 min
Corruption and Conservation Efforts
By: Logan Roscoe Image Courtesy of Unsplash Conservation efforts often require a shift in established practices—changing standards and...
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- Oct 5
- 3 min
Recycling Is Not Enough: Here Are The Brands That Are Challenging The Industry
By: Tom Kennedy Image courtesy of Unsplash With emissions of 92 million tons of waste and 79 trillion liters of water consumed per year,...
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- Oct 5
- 2 min
Corporate Greenwashing: What It Is and How to Avoid It
By: Emily Untermeyer Image courtesy of Unsplash Environmentalist Jay Wasterveld coined the term “greenwashing” in 1986 to describe the...
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- Oct 5
- 3 min
Environmental Impacts of Electric Vehicles
By: Emily Untermeyer Image courtesy of Unsplash The growing emphasis on sustainability across the globe has manifested in part in a...
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- Sep 27
- 1 min
Ghost Gear Report
By: SAIL Zero Waste Subteam The EPR/Zero Waste Subteam of SAIL has recently completed a report discussing ghost gear, a disaster to ocean...
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- Sep 27
- 3 min
Op-ed: Investigating Legitimacy in Sustainable Seafood Labels
By: Amanda Davidson 8 billion people need food, and globalization has presented societies with creative ways to supply it. The U.S. has...
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- Sep 27
- 3 min
West Coast Seafood Guide: Responsibility, Traceability, and Sustainability
By: Amanda Davidson When picking out groceries, dining in or ordering take-out, more consumers want to know whether the ingredients are...
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- Sep 17
- 5 min
Assessing the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as a Model for Further Regional Initiatives
By: Lila McNamee, Kellen Carpenter and Eric Vo Image Courtesy of Pexels What is RGGI? The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was...
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- May 16
- 2 min
The Prominence of PFAS in POC and Low-income Communities
Written by Caitlin Rissmiller Between military bases and isolated bucolic towns, Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, or PFAS, can be...
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- May 12
- 4 min
Eating Insects to Save Insects?
Recently, I have been seeing articles pop up covering the rapid decline of insect populations around the world. I came across an article...
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- May 9
- 2 min
Smoke on the Water
For decades, smoking has been a common, if not essential, activity for people across the globe. It was so popular that it has...
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- May 5
- 3 min
Illegal Fishing & How to Conserve the Health of Our Ocean
Boston University put on a webinar on March 3rd, 2022 about illegal fishing, why it is a major problem, and things that we can do to help...
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- Apr 21
- 3 min
Invest in Our Planet: A History of Earth Day
In the years leading up to the first Earth Day, the planet was not doing so well. Americans were consuming large amounts of leaded gas...
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- Apr 11
- 3 min
What Does the Future of Composting Hold?
Thanks to its efficiency, composting has become an increasingly popular practice. Yet, similarly to other modern processes such as...
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- Mar 21
- 3 min
Taking Action Against Pollution: Killer Whale Populations in the Salish Sea
The Georgia Strait Alliance is a Canadian-based organization dedicated to protecting the Salish Sea, which sits just off the coast of...
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- Mar 10
- 3 min
A Contaminated Ocean Knows No Borders: Protecting the Cape Cod Bay
Did you know that nearly twenty percent of all electricity used in the United States is generated in nuclear power plants? Nuclear power...
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- Mar 7
- 2 min
Using Microplastic Regulations to Incentivize Innovation and Environmental Safety
The world’s microplastic problem is an intensifying issue that must be acted on now. In a new webinar for the Ocean Plastic Webinars...
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- Feb 28
- 3 min
Kelp: The Next Great Climate Solution
Though it may be a type of seaweed, kelp is anything but a weed. To marine ecosystems kelp protects coastlines from storms, to many...
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