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This story is part of the Grist arts and culture series Remember When, a weeklong exploration of what happened to the climate solutions that once clogged our social feeds. Almost a decade ago, Kathryn ...

When she was 15, Ava Langridge watched a YouTube video that explained how environmental activist Lauren Singer fit four years of trash into a 16-ounce mason jar. Inspired, the Bay Area teen embarked ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Almost a decade ago, Kathryn Kellogg started storing all of her trash—every receipt, sticker, wrapper, and ...

It was a pleasant summer day along the waters off the coast of Guanacaste, Costa Rica when marine biologist Christine Figgener captured the heartrending video that sparked the movement to ban plastic ...

It’s not every day that you see the words “zero waste” and “climate” in the same sentence. Zero waste practitioners, both individuals and civil society organizations, vie for individual lifestyle ...