This house was built using 600,000 recycled plastic bottles

This week, the team from JD Composites unveiled its first home in Meteghan River on Nova Scotia's southwest shore. It has walls made with 15-centimetre thick plastic slabs. More than 600,000 recycled plastic bottles were shredded, melted and formed into custom moulds for the walls.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/plastic-bottle-home-nova-scotia-1.5188749

Article courtesy of CBS News by Brett Ruskin

Seattle Will Open Clean-Air Shelters As Relief From Wildfire Smoke

At times over the past two summers, Seattle experienced some of the worst air quality in the world. With wildfires breaking out in British Columbia, Oregon, and California, the city was hit by smoke from nearly every direction. It caused increased air pollution for 24 days, and on a few occasions, the air was so bad it was considered “unhealthy for all.”

https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/06/seattle-air-quality-smoke-wildfires-shelters-where-find-safe/592519/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

   Article courtesy of City Lab by Hallie Golden

A quick shift to electric vehicles could drive the Green New Deal forward

The transition could keep the U.S. competitive with countries like China but also radically improve the country’s own transportation sector—currently the most polluting of the economy—while creating jobs and improving equity. https://www.fastcompany.com/90364228/a-quick-shift-to-electric-vehicles-could-drive-the-green-new-deal-forward

Article courtesy of Fast Company by Adele Peters

Fashion startups are already proving a Green New Deal could work

Fashion and manufacturing contributes to about a tenth of the world’s greenhouse gases. But startups are showing their more established counterparts how to build carbon-neutral businesses.https://www.fastcompany.com/90363258/how-the-green-new-deal-could-reshape-the-fashion-industry

Article courtesy of Fast Company by Elizabeth Segran

In lobbying battle for electric vehicle tax credit, it’s car makers vs. the oil and gas industry

GM, like a fleet of other car manufacturers, is seeking the extension of a tax break that has for a decade helped sustain the sale of cars that need little to no gasoline to run.

This has triggered an intense lobbying battle with oil and natural gas companies, which supply the fuel that runs the internal-combustion engines that dominate American roadways. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/06/25/lobbying-battle-electric-vehicle-tax-credit-its-car-makers-vs-oil-gas-industry/?utm_term=.e6152e62dda9

Article courtesy of The Washington Post by Dino Grandoni and Steven Mufson

Uber’s new mass transit feature now available in Boston

Uber today announced the roll out of a new transit feature that will integrate all public transit information in the Greater Boston area directly into its app.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/06/17/ubers-new-mass-transit-feature-now-available-in-boston/
Article courtesy of The Herald by Alexi Iafrato

Big earthquakes might make sea level rise worse. Here's how.

But a new study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, reveals that the quakes also sparked a slow-burning danger for the more than 55,000 residents of American Samoa: sea level rise that is five times as fast as the global average.  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/06/big-earthquakes-might-make-sea-level-rise-worse/
Article courtesy of National Geographic  BY MAYA WEI-HAAS

Midnight Sun Could Keep Predatory Fish Out of the Arctic

As the world gets hotter and the oceans warm, many marine species are shifting their ranges to higher latitudes. This has some researchers worried that new fish populations in polar waters might wreak havoc on food webs. But there’s one thing that could stop some of these polar migrators: light.
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/midnight-sun-could-keep-predatory-fish-out-of-the-arctic/
Article courtesy of Hakai Magazine by K.N. Smith