On the heels of World Water Day on March 22nd, I wanted to shed some light on the increasing world water crisis. Contrary to popular belief, or should we say consumer behavior in America, water is a finite, irreplaceable resource.
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The most important thing I have learned on my sustainable living and conscious consumption journey is that our health heavily depends on it. The level of unregulated toxins in our ecosystems, soil, air, and water, is hard to wrap your head around. It’s scary and it doesn’t stop there.
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The biggest environmental problems we face today are a result of our consumer culture. Never in human history have there been so many people on the planet consuming this many natural resources. Around 1 billion people lived on earth in 1800, less than 2 billion in the early 20th century, 3 billion in 1960, and
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There is a well-known and accepted business concept called the 3Ps of sustainability. The Ps refer to People, Planet and Profit. Barùkas is such a business.
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Climate change has been a prominent part of the Biden campaign and served as his final pitch in many swing states. It has consistently polled as a top concern among Democratic voters this year and also among faltering Trump voters. The reality, as long as Mitch McConnell is in charge of the Senate, much of the comprehensive climate agenda,
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Agriculture is the largest cause of global environmental change today. It's responsible for deforestation, desertification, damage to coastal reefs and marine ecosystems and climate change.
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Being energy efficient is a lot easier than you think. There are two main reasons for energy conservation, to save money on your utility bill and to protect the environment. Most people don’t actually know how our every day electricity use contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It is in fact quite significant.
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Plastic pollution and the degradation of natural ecosystems are among the greatest environmental challenges we are facing today. Massively responsible for the depletion of our planet’s resources is our current “linear” economy, which extracts, turns resources into products and then disposes of them. This cycle is also called “take-make-waste.” E.g. You buy a t-shirt, wear
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50 years ago the first Earth Day in 1970 marked the launching of the modern environmental movement. It was a collective response to environmental issues such as oil spills, air and water pollution. An estimated 20 million people in America alone took to the streets on behalf of the environment and demanded a new way
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Fossil Fuels are a hot topic these days. A lot of people link them to climate change, others argue that they have nothing to do with global warming, but wherever you stand on that subject, there is a darker, very invisible side to fossil fuels and chemical toxicity that sits right under your nose or
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