Dubbed the largest landfill in the world, the North Pacific Garbage Patch spans a distance estimated to be twice the size of Texas and contains over 100 million tons of plastic waste from all corners of the world. Because most plastics will never completely biodegrade, they remain in the water as microscopic particles that are [...]

The World Resources Institute is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people’s lives.
Their mission is to move human society towards a lifestyle that protects the Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
The organization [...]

Trees have an irreplaceable role in maintaining the health of our Earth’s ecosystems and atmosphere. While humans and other animals breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, trees and other plants capture and store carbon dioxide and release oxygen back into the air. Ultimately, trees not only help keep our lungs filled with oxygen, but [...]

PennFuture (Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future) works to create a just future where nature, communities and the economy thrive. The organization enforces environmental laws and advocates for the transformation of public policy, public opinion and the marketplace to restore and protect the environment and safeguard public health. PennFuture advances effective solutions for the problems of pollution, [...]

The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the
development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet’s ecosystems. The organization aims to deeply influence the ascendance of a new generation of design-science pioneers who are leading the creation of an abundant and restorative world economy that benefits [...]

The DNA sequences between humans and chimpanzees are 98.5% similar; the similarity is 99.9% between humans. As we know today, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. Unfortunately, for humans, that 0.1% difference fuels the hate behind genocide, war [...]

Water Matters @ Columbia is the blog of the Columbia Water Center. The Center is leading intellectual inquiry into the assessment, prediction and solution of the growing scarcity of fresh water. The Water Center conducts research on water shortages in some of the most challenging settings in the world, and also acts as the focal [...]

The Earth Policy Institute (EPI), founded in 2001, is dedicated to providing a vision of a sustainable global economy and a roadmap of how to get from here to there, what we call Plan B, the alternative to business as usual. EPI works at the global level simply because no country acting alone can stabilize [...]

Although human rights has come a long way since men dragged women by their hair, our world still has just as long a way to go in order to achieve global peace and harmony. The problem with human rights is that it pervades every level of our society. At the macro-level, wars blur the line [...]

Founded in 1947, Defenders of Wildlife is one of the country’s leaders in pragmatic science-based, results-oriented wildlife conservation. They stand out in their commitment to saving imperiled wildlife and championing the Endangered Species Act, the landmark law that protects our rarest wildlife.
A message from their president best describes the purpose behind their mission:
“Our nation’s wildlife [...]