Recycling

Back in 2017, The Nation ran a superb, in-depth story on "heirs' property," a legalized form of property theft that allows primarily rich white developers to expropriate land owned by the descendants' of Black slaves. Last month, Paul Hansmeier was sentenced…

Shameplane calculates how much Arctic ice will melt based on your next plane trip. Fabrice Coffrini / AFP/Getty Images When thinking about how to reduce or eliminate our carbon footprint, what often comes to mind is cutting back on driving or doing more rec…

Programming Note: Ritholtzs Reads will have a new home. To receive early morning reads each day in your inbox, sign up here. My end of week morning train reads: Amazons Most Ambitious Research Project Is a Convenience Store (Bloomberg Businessweek)How Fran…

Rather directly named the APM (short for Accessible People Mover), Toyota’s specially designed vehicle aims at enhancing the experience for visitors who will flock down to Tokyo next year for the 2020 Olympics. Created to help the organizers ensure that the e…

I’m sorry to say that if you care about the planet, you’re going to have to have to stop wearing jeans with cool metal studs, grommets and rivets. All those fancy trims–like lace, embroidery, and patches–all need to go. And no more distressed jeans made by st…

Toyota needs more than a secure and steady supply of batteries if it hopes to meet its ambitious global sales goal for electric vehicles. If it hopes to compete, the Japanese automaker will need better quality lithium-ion batteries that don’t squeeze profit m…

Apologies to your favorite delivery joint, but you should never eat a meal from one of those black plastic food containers again—because, as researchers recently revealed, black plastic can contain all kinds of harmful chemicals. Last year, researchers at Un…

Morning is a good time for getting things out of our systemsso why not clear out your brain as well? Whether you do a version of the famous morning pages from The Artists Waythree pages of longhand on whatever youre thinking about that morningor invest in a …

Pokemon developer Game Freak has been battling the ire of fans ever since they announced that Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield wouldnt let you put all previous Pokemon in the games Pokedex. The fallout from that decision sparked another rumor that Game Freak …

An amateur computer historian has unearthed a cool piece of technology paraphernalia: NeXT’s Fall 1989 catalog. Kevin Savetz recently scanned the entire 138-page book, and posted the files to Archive.org. NeXT was the company that Steve Jobs founded in 1985 a…