Kristin Toussaint

This interactive map shows all the conservation land near you

The Land and Water Conservation Fund, established in 1964, has helped conserve land from segments of the Appalachian Trail to neighborhood parks.

This interactive map shows all the conservation land near you

Now you can wash your clothes with recycled carbon emissions

Unilever’s latest laundry capsule is made from CO2 taken from a Chinese steel mill.

Now you can wash your clothes with recycled carbon emissions

We need to keep focusing on indoor air quality after the pandemic is over

Ventilation is important for more than just preventing the spread of COVID-19

We need to keep focusing on indoor air quality after the pandemic is over

This soap refill company is salvaging soap dispensers from other brands

The cleaned bottles are recovered from friends and family and “a little bit of dumpster diving in Midtown Manhattan.”

This soap refill company is salvaging soap dispensers from other brands

Give your socks back to Smartwool and they’ll be turned into dog beds

As the company begins to try to become more circular, the first thing it wants is to do something with all those holey and mismatched socks you have lying around.

Give your socks back to Smartwool and they’ll be turned into dog beds

This zero-waste body wash comes in packaging that dissolves in your shower

Get in the shower with a packet of body wash, come out with nothing.

This zero-waste body wash comes in packaging that dissolves in your shower

A family death can mean a nightmare of forms—this app helps you through the process

Empathy guides you through the logistical and emotional aspects of loss—from funerals to wills to grief counseling.

A family death can mean a nightmare of forms—this app helps you through the process

Here’s one way we can get people to choose more climate-friendly foods

Even some people who didn’t want to know the environmental impact of their food were convinced to make a more sustainable swap.

Here’s one way we can get people to choose more climate-friendly foods

The oil and gas industry is in denial about its own demise

Trade groups have thrown a fit over Biden’s pause on new oil and gas leases. They have much bigger things to worry about.

The oil and gas industry is in denial about its own demise

These cheese alternatives aren’t plant-based—they’re microbe-based

Superbrewed Food’s cheese is fermented in a tank, from the same microbes that already live in your body.

These cheese alternatives aren’t plant-based—they’re microbe-based

Why Chobani is giving its workers the vaccine at its factory

Workers at the yogurt company’s Twin Falls, Idaho, plant don’t have to go anywhere or make complicated appointments to get their shots. They’ll happen right at work.

Why Chobani is giving its workers the vaccine at its factory

After a year of lockdowns, billionaires are $1.3 trillion richer

While much of the country struggles, the richest continue to get richer, driven by a surging stock market.

After a year of lockdowns, billionaires are $1.3 trillion richer

This company wants to bring NASA’s airless tires to your bike

No more flats would save a lot of wasted rubber.

This company wants to bring NASA’s airless tires to your bike

Plastic credits are the newest kind of pollution offset—but do they make a difference?

In their attempts to go “plastic neutral,” some companies are paying to clean up plastic from nature. But does that mean anything if it just gives them license to make more plastic themselves?

Plastic credits are the newest kind of pollution offset—but do they make a difference?

This campaign wants to get 1 million families gardening

The small at-home source of produce is meant to inspire people to think about growing more of their own food.

This campaign wants to get 1 million families gardening

These apartments offer you health care with your lease

6,000 residents now have access to free telehealth through their residence, not their job.

These apartments offer you health care with your lease

A nationwide halt to evictions and utilities shutoffs could have lowered the COVID-19 death count

Forcing people to leave their homes and move in with others helped spread the virus.

A nationwide halt to evictions and utilities shutoffs could have lowered the COVID-19 death count

Your next bike could be a Porsche

The company is offering two new battery-powered bikes as it releases its latest EV.

Your next bike could be a Porsche

These new fragrances will be made from carbon captured from the atmosphere

Beauty giant Coty is using a new source to make the ethanol in its perfumes: carbon emissions.

These new fragrances will be made from carbon captured from the atmosphere

This California city banned the construction of any new gas stations

Petaluma has decided it has enough gas stations to last until we transition to electric vehicles.

This California city banned the construction of any new gas stations