How often do you wear a pair of underwear? If you own a week’s worth, that’s 52 wears per year.
Yet you probably spend less on these basic staples than fun impulse purchases or fancier clothes that you use way less.
The result: Your closet essentials wear out and land in the trash well before the items you never really wear, contributing to the millions of tons of landfilled or burned clothing in the United States. Read More...
We all understand, courtesy our daily contributions to social media and our search struggles with Google, that the Internet is huge — and only growing more huge. More than 3 billion people are now online. By the end of 2016, Internet traffic could eclipse one zettabyte a year.
But who the heck knows what a zettabyte is?! I want to size the Internet in concrete, physical terms: like, if I printed the whole thing out, I’d have … how many pieces of paper? Read More...
Diamonds have long been marketed as a girl's best friend. But their extraction from the ground has damaged our relationship with the environment. Extracting a single one carat diamond can mean the removal of hundreds of tonnes of earth, a process that consumes vast amounts of fresh water and fossil fuels, and has other side effects include deforestation and river pollution.
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