By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World By now most are aware of the dire situation of the honeybee: dwindling numbers, collapsed colonies and dying hives — which endangers...
Category - Sustainability
Primary Water: A Solution to Drought, Famine and Social Unrest?
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World While some regions are breathing a sigh of relief with the arrival of El Niño this year, other areas are still faced with...
Clean and Green — Dutch Company Powers Gadgets and Street Lights with Living Plants
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Could living plants be the future of electricity? If the folks at Plant-e have anything to say about it, the answer is a resounding YES. To...
Groundbreaking Study Maps the Decline of Wild Bee Communities in the United States
By Christina Lavers Contributing Writer for Wake Up World By now most of us are aware that the humble bee is not only responsible for creating one of the most natural, health giving, and ...
A Green Christmas: Gift Ideas for a Sustainable Holiday Season
By Jack Adam Weber Contributing Writer for Wake Up World With the holidays swiftly approaching, we should be seriously considering where to cast our purchase-power votes. Already the pollution...
Urban Edible Forests: The Future of Food is Here!
By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World “A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes...
Why “Sustainable Development” is a Lie
13th December 2015 By Derrick Jensen B.Sc Guest Writer for Wake Up World “Sustainable development” is a claim to virtue, but the word “development” used in this...
Forget Shorter Showers – Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Social Change
By Derrick Jensen B.Sc Guest Writer for Wake Up World The Misdirected Environmental Movement Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have...
We Must Reclaim True Environmentalism!
By Derrick Jensen & Lierre Keith Guest Writers for Wake Up World True environmentalism is not about making our rapacious and destructive industrialism a little more sustainable, but...
How GMOs and Glyphosate (RoundUp) Impact Soil Biology
8th November 2015 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest Writer for Wake Up World Robert Kremer Ph.D, co-author of the book Principles in Weed Management, is a certified soil scientist and professor of Soil...
Plastic-Eating Mushroom Discovered in the Amazon Rainforest — A Solution for Our Trash Saturated World?
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World In a world addicted to plastic, it’s hard to imagine life without it. The problem is, plastic doesn’t breakdown safely and has...
Conscious Death, Sacred Service and Green Burial – Leaving a Legacy of Meaning and Conservation
By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World We’ve all been touched by death in one form or another — whether through a beloved animal, the rhythm of nature or someone...