• People

Young Woman Leads Her Community In Baltimore To “Starve” Polluting Incinerator With Zero Waste

• air pollution
• asthma
• Baltimore
• incinerator
• waste-to-energy

The Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator is Baltimore’s biggest standing source of air pollution. Its smokestacks send toxic mercury, lead, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides into the air off of I-95 in South Baltimore, whose residents are primarily Black and low-income. 

Why This Matters:  High polluting incinerators like the Wheelabrator facility are both harmful and expensive.

• Politics

For the Conservation Movement, It’s Almost Heaven, West Virginia

• #ResistRockwool
• AI
• coal
• fossil fuels
• satellite monitoring
• waste-to-energy

By Monica Medina, Founder and CEO of Our Daily Planet And now, for those of you who need a break from a long week of impeachmentpalooza, take a trip with us to Shepherdstown, West Virginia — a small town, nestled at the northeastern edge of the Shenandoah Valley, practically an exurb of Washington, D.C. It […]

• Sustainability

One Evergreen Skiing Thing: Copenhill

• carbon neutral
• Copenhagen
• skiing
• waste-to-energy

In a global first, a new waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen doubles as an artificial ski slope! When it is finished in May, it will be a full fledged outdoor park with year round ski runs and chairlifts, hiking trails that wind up at the top of the “mountain” and a 264-foot climbing wall. From the […]