Sustainability

Street vending, brunch, and house plants have more in common than you may think. In this episode of “Connect the Dots,” Fernando Hurtado ends up on #PlantTok, meets a street vendor selling plants, and learns about why some black plastic can’t be recycled.

Travelers care a lot about the environmental impact of their trips, surveys show, but many say they’re unsure how to be a more sustainable and eco-friendly tourist, or are worried about paying more to do so.

As the cannabis industry continues to expand it is on track to become one of the most energy-intensive industries in the nation. Often demanding 24-hour lighting, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems, cannabis producers are responsible for 10% of the state’s energy consumption. But one local company is doing things differently. Solar Cannabis in Somerset, Massachusetts is the only 100% solar-powered commercial cannabis cultivator in...

Solar Cannabis in Somerset, Massachusetts is the only 100% solar-powered commercial cannabis cultivator in the United States – but they hope others will follow.

When Coldplay considered a 2022 world tour, they knew they wanted to offset as much of the environmental impact of their stadium shows as possible. So they got creative. Telemundo correspondent Randy Serrano goes to Costa Rica for an inside look at a kinetic dance floor and other innovative ways Coldplay is reducing their impact.

Could lobster caught off New England get a designation that might prevent it from being sold by big businesses like Whole Foods? The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, which classifies seafood sustainability, is weighing whether or not it should label the American lobster “red” for “avoid.” The program color-codes everything from tuna, to shrimp to oysters based on...

While organizations make notable progress on reducing the harmful effects of their operations, experts say sustainability claims can be overstated and mask underlying problems.

Cleaning out the closet? Here are some ways to keep those old clothes out of the landfill.

Girls are more likely to be dissatisfied with environmental efforts than boys, and older teens are more likely to care about corporations’ role in climate change than younger teens, new data finds.

A 23-year-old from Boston has opened up the first zero waste store in Boston. Her goal is to help make sustainability fun and easy for people in the city.

Clothes designed by Asate Maisé have sold out online in 6 minutes. Maisé gives a tour of her studio in Wilmington, Delaware, and talks about her use of sustainable, deadstock vintage fabrics in eye-catching clothing.

After committing to making all of its products sustainable by 2030, Danish toymaker LEGO announced that it will start rolling out new bricks made entirely of recycled bottles.

At the beginning of the pandemic, as grocery store shelved emptied of essentials, many people in the U.S. got a taste of a world where food isn’t easy to come by. But as climate change threatens the planet, experts say mass food shortages are a real danger. That’s why people like Elizabeth Medgyesy of California’s Sonoma County are turning to...

A professor at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire talks with NBC10 Boston’s Chris Gloninger about the dark roots of environmentalism and sustainability so that we don’t repeat the past while we fight against climate change.

Two British designers have developed an eco-friendly approach to producing furniture — they grow it directly from trees. The co-founders of the U.K. furniture business, called Full Grown, coax trees to grow into the shape of tables, chairs and even lamps. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories met with the co-founders of Full Grown to see this “organic 3D printing”...

In Taos, New Mexico, a team is building a model of self-sustainable, off-the-grid living called Earthships. The concept was pioneered by Michael Reynolds 50 years ago and has been evolving ever since. He said the structures meet the six key human needs by providing shelter, water, food, energy, sewage treatment and garbage management.

Taking a toy out of the box can make a mess.

Woods Hill Pier 4 recently opened in the same location of the iconic Anthony’s Pier 4 in Seaport. Anna Rossi learns how the new spot is paying homage to the institution that came before and where they plan to go with their farm to table model in the future.

Vogue Italia has produced its first issue of the new year and decade with an eye on sustainability, substituting fashion illustrations for photographs in an effort to reduce the environmental impact associated with staging fashion photo shoots around the globe. Editor-in-chief Emanuele Farneti said the January issue was believed to be the first time a Vogue magazine has gone photo-less…