Happy Eco News: The First Ever Global Winners of the Earth Prize are from Youth from India
In June, 16-year-olds Vivaan Chhawchharia, Ariana Agarwal and Avyana Mehta were crowned Global Winners of The Earth Prize, the world’s largest environmental competition for teenagers. Their solution, Plas-Stick, uses discarded tamarind seeds to remove microplastics from drinking water, …
Revelator: Dangerous Drinking: Is Bottled Water Really Safer Than Tap Water?
A whopping 88% of Americans say they consume bottled water, according to an industry survey released in 2024. In fact that year we drank an estimated 16.4 billion gallons of it — 47.1 gallons and a shocking average of about 340 individual bottles per person. (Beyond the billions of $s spent) there’s another cost to this practice: serious effects on our health…