For the past year or two, I have tried many times to find an eco friendly company that can do lawn care without all of the chemicals or pesticides. Believe me when I say that trying to find one of these companies is incredibly difficult. For a while, the closest thing I could come to…
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How The Ocean Cleanup Is Funding Its Mission With Sunglasses
Today might have seemed like a normal day for you. In fact, it probably seemed like a normal day for a lot of people. However, today was a little different. Today, The Ocean Cleanup announced its plan on how they are going to fund their mission of cleaning the world’s oceans of plastic pollution. Interestingly…
This Is One Of The Biggest Environmental Stories Of 2020…
In case you haven’t heard already, one of the big environmental stories right now is about the island nation of Mauritius, a country located just off of the coast of Madagascar. For the months of July and August, it has been written about in multiple major news networks mostly because of one specific reason. This…
One Year Of GLOBR
One year ago, the first GLOBR article was published. One year ago, I didn’t think that GLOBR would become what it has become today. One year ago, I was working on my phone, trying to figure out how to make the site even better while eating at a restaurant in Minneapolis. It has been one…
And The Winner Is…
2019 has been filled with lots of environmental news. Greta Thunberg started a movement against climate change, Boyan Slat took the next step in plastic clean up with his company The Ocean Cleanup, and people all around the world are helping the planet survive. Just a few weeks ago, I asked you to vote for…
They Did It.
Twenty. Million. Trees. The TeamTrees campaign has done it. Yesterday, the organization’s online counter hit 20 with six zeros after it. According to their website, they are still accepting donations to plant even more trees. The number is growing quickly, and may never stop. The people who started this idea should be recognized as the…
Vote For The 2019 GLOBR Awards! – Part 2
Last week, people voted for the 2019 GLOBR Awards, a new award that will recognize people in this world who are doing the best that they can to save the Earth. The votes are in, and part two of voting is now in place. You can vote for the winner by clicking here. The winner…
Why I Want A Future
If you have listened to the GLOBR podcast, you would know that the voice that you listen to sounds like a kid. That’s because, yes, I am a kid. You probably don’t know very many kids who have a blog, and try to save Earth in every way possible. But because Earth as we know…
These Glasses Plant Trees
If you know me, you know that I love startups, especially ones that have a mission to save the planet. Can you see where this story is going? Anyway, because I’m a person who has to wear glasses to see clearly, and because I’m a person who loves the environment deeply, there was about a…
Why We Need More Human-Centered Towns
Think about it–what if you could walk to the grocery store, bike the quarter mile to the local swimming pools, then go pedal to the beach and coffee shop in the evening. Wouldn’t that be a beautiful life, doing it every weekend? Not only that, but it would also help the environment out tremendously because…
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