Early in my career as a science educator, I learned a story that a lot of educators hear at some point: “the starfish* story.” Basically, an older person is walking along a beach and tossing starfish back into the ocean. A younger person comes along, looks at the hundreds of starfish caught on the beach, …
More-
Plastics and Wildlife – Making a Difference by Hales Miller and Sarah Peterson
-
Twelve Easy Ways to Begin an Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle By Claire Taydus
The Beginning of an Environmentally-Sustainable Lifestyle One of the biggest challenges we each face for living more sustainably, in my opinion, is: where to begin. One day, you look around your house and realize all your common household items come in plastic; half of your grocery list is in plastic; everything is plastic on plastic. …
More -
Home Composting by Elisa Lewis
One of my favorite actions that my family does to be environmentally friendly is home composting. Seeing how much food waste was going into the trash just to sit for years in a landfill was painful. I know that food does not break down there and when samples are taken from landfills they can find …
More -
The Hampton Road’s first Zero Waste + Refill Shop
Less Than is excited to announce the opening of our new brick and mortar shop located in the Ghent community of Norfolk! Despite some setbacks and surprises due to COVID-19, we are proud to have hosted a soft-launch this past month. Owner Chris Simmonds knows that being resourceful and sustainable go hand-in-hand. Some of his …
More -
Recycling: Past and Present
In the 1980s, a rising tide of consumer concern grew over the environmental impact of using and disposing of large amounts of plastic. The versatile material was becoming a target as landfills grew and the possibility of bans entered the conversation. Throughout the decade and beyond, the plastic industry spent millions of dollars in an …
More -
A Wasteful Inception: Disposable Products in America
When we nostalgically think back to the late 1940s and 1950s, we might envision a world castunder a black and white hue reminiscent of early television. Leave it to Beaver-style families sataround the kitchen table at breakfast and happily greeted the milkman as he dropped off freshmilk in exchange for the empty, glass bottles from …
More