By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted worldwide each year. It’s time to change our habits. Zero-waste is the latest trend among eco...
Category - Energy & Resources
Actor Mark Ruffalo Takes On Fossil Fuel Industry and Calls Out California Governor Jerry Brown
30th March 2016 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “The intense means of extraction, known as fracking, is believed to induce earthquakes, compound global warming...
Environmental Research Reveals Seattle Salmon are on Drugs — Thanks, Humans!
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “From Prozac to caffeine to cholesterol medicine, from ibuprofen to bug spray, researchers found an alphabet soup of drugs and...
Leaving a Legacy of Destruction: Fracking Industry Threatens U.S. National Parks
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World As if it wasn’t bad enough to have fracking operations in our backyards — destroying local ecosystems, human health and...
20 Major Water Contaminants on EPA’s Regulation List … Plus Tips for Cleaning Up Your Drinking Water
By Mark W. Boutwell Guest Writer for Wake Up World The United States is considered one of the countries with the safest tap water in the world. There are approximately 155,000 public water...
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...
Fracking Wastewater is Cancer-Causing, New Study Confirms
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The fracking industry likes to call its product “natural gas,” but the natural consequence of its activity is the production of billions...
The Oil-igarchy: How Big Oil Conquered The World
By James Corbett Guest Writer for Wake Up World This is the story of how the oil-igarchy is on the verge of monopolizing life itself. Oil. From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate...
Massive Methane Leak in California Forces Residents to Flee Homes, Schools
20th January 2016 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Classified as one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters since the Deepwater Horizon 2010 BP oil spill, a...
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...
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...
FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Salmon – Here’s What You Need To Know
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World In November 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first genetically modified food animal [1] — an...
