Sustainability

The UEFA Foundation for Children has partnered with Lay’s and spearheaded soccer pitches in seven different cities so far.

How the Lay’s RePlay program is turning empty chip packets into sustainable soccer pitches and providing safe access to sport in underserved communities.

When it comes to being environmentally friendly, we’re all trying to do our part, but do you know how to do so when it comes to fashion? Sustainable fashion expert and textile consultant Amy Dufault shares a few ways we can be more eco-conscious about what we wear.

How is INDYCAR addressing environmental impacts on and off the track in 2023? Here’s a look at INDYCAR’s efforts toward a more sustainable future.

Could you go a whole year without buying any non-necessities? Sustainability expert Ashlee Piper shares why she came up with the #NoNewThings challenge and shares her advice if you want to try.

Super Bowl LVII will be the fourth played in the Greater Phoenix area since 1996. Here’s a look at how sustainability efforts have changed over the years and how this years’ Super Bowl aims to be the greenest yet.

You can treat yourself while also doing good for the planet. Buying luxury is going green, with small businesses offering sustainable alternatives to everything from diamonds to candles.

Are lab-made diamonds “real?” It’s a hot question. On one side are people like Tom Chatham, the chairman of Chatham Created Gems & Diamonds, a wholesale business selling laboratory-created gems. Diamond is only carbon, and in the right conditions one can be created in four to six weeks, he said.  “The natural diamond industry doesn’t really like what we’re...

The famous Head of the Charles Regatta, being held October 21-23 in Cambridge, is making waves with its reforms in sustainability. Hannah Donnelly explains.

The Head of the Charles Regatta, a beloved Boston tradition, is bringing together athletes from all over the globe and educating them, and spectators, on sustainability.

A week after Seafood Watch, a California group based at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, told consumers and businesses to “avoid” New England lobster because of what it says are threats to endangered right whales from fishing gear, people in Maine are still livid at what they see as an unfair designation. As of Tuesday afternoon, a change.org petition submitted...

Maine’s congressional delegation and Gov. Janet Mills have called on an influential conservation group to immediately reverse their “red list” designation of lobster, or provide evidence to back their “irresponsible” claims that the seafood poses too much of a risk to rare whales and should be avoided. Seafood Watch, which rates the sustainability of different seafoods, said this week...

Some retailers are taking lobster off the menu after an assessment from an influential conservation group that the seafood poses too much of a risk to rare whales and should be avoided. Seafood Watch, which rates the sustainability of different seafoods, said this week it has added the American and Canadian lobster fisheries to its “red list” of species to…

NFL Green, the league’s environmental program, hoped to complete a local marine conservation project in the host city of Super Bowl LVII. Just one problem. The game is in Arizona. “Big, big, big beach, but no ocean,” said Jack Groh, director of NFL Green. But amid the desert’s open soil and cactuses is the 200-mile Salt River, which flows...

As of this week, Seafood Watch announced that it has classified American lobster, including Maine lobster, as a seafood to avoid.

A major New England staple is now red-listed by a sustainability group that works with Whole Foods, The Cheesecake Factory and other national brands. As of this week, Seafood Watch announced that it has classified American lobster, including Maine lobster, as seafood to avoid. The group, which is a program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, said in a…

The sailing vessel ‘Kat’, run by Heloisa Shurmann, started in Brazil and sailed all the way to Boston Harbor with the main mission of fighting plastic pollution in our oceans.

The sailboat ‘Kat’ sailed from Brazil to Boston Harbor educating communities along the way about the impact of plastic pollution on marine life.

What happens after we die? Green burials bring a whole new perspective to the timeless philosophical question. An increasingly popular way to protect the environment in the afterlife, green burials are designed to have minimal environmental impact by using biodegradable materials and forgoing chemical preservatives. At the most fundamental level, a green burial requires biodegradable caskets, containers, shrouds or urns…

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.