Polyester, one of the most common fibers, is a plastic derived from crude oil. The long fibers that make up polyester thread are woven together to make fabric. Extracting the oil and melting the plastic require energy. — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Consumers can choose organic cotton grown without pesticides, but it uses more water and requires more land than conventional crops. Organic cotton can also… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes it feels hard to remember that Silicon Valley is an actual place, a collage of parched suburbs, and not just the collective noun… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Take one round-trip flight between New York and California, and you've generated about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that your car emits over… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
If there's one vital, but underappreciated, subject in the conversation about climate change, it's waste: how to define it, how to create less of… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Nitrogen-based fertilizers, which came into wide use after World War II, helped prompt the agricultural revolution that has allowed the Earth to feed its… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Air quality is already a problem outside of cars: More than 80 percent of people living in cities where pollution is tracked are exposed… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
In the Garden of Eden, figuring out what to wear was easy and the fig leaves were environmentally friendly. Today, it's much harder to… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
When there is this dip in the jet stream that brings cold to the East, there's usually a countervailing loop that takes warm air… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
When you buy carbon offsets, you pay to take planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in exchange for the greenhouse gases you put… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
The world's oceans are littered with trillions of pieces of plastic - bottles, bags, toys, fishing nets and more, mostly in tiny particles -… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Whales and dolphins have extraordinary hearing and the ability to communicate in widely varying voices. — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I don't think I could have - and I wouldn't have wanted to - write a book about climate change that wasn't about justice… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
