Every year, Americans throw away $165 billion of food. Happy Earth Day. Let's do better.

This is your favorite protein's carbon footprint.

Make pollutants from gumdrops, then gobble them up!

"According to the Worldwatch Institute, 51% or more of ALL GREENHOUSE GASES are from raising animals for food. Only 13% comes from cars. Do YOU want to stop global warming?" GO VEGAN.

The destruction and degradation of forestland, caused mainly by expanded agricultural activity in tropical developing countries, currently accounts for roughly 12 percent of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Slowing or eliminating forest loss can potentially make a cost-effective contribution to an international effort to reduce global emissions, but that strategy faces a number of challenges.

Download the free science grade activity to understand the effects of greenhouse better.

How, exactly, are humans heating up the planet? Ecofys has a massive new flowchart breaking it all down by source and sector:

This chart from the United Nations Environment Programme (click to embiggen) looks complicated, sort of like a traffic sign cross-bred with a banyan tree. But it basically just traces the path of greenhouse gases from polluting industries, through uses, out …

This post is cross-posted from jonathangray.org. Europe’s Energy, a project I helped to create to put EU energy targets into context, has just won a Silver Award at Malofiej 20. The Malofiej …

Greenhouse gases....look at all that CO2. How can we reduce the amount of CO2?

Climate-change debates often focus on how to cut the carbon spew of particular countries—China and the US above all. But another way to do such…

These are the causes of greenhouse gases

Greenhouse gases from livestock.

New technology takes GHGs from the atmosphere and turns them into an eco-plastic claimed to be stronger and less expensive that oil-based plastics

Greenhouse Gases Percentages