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What Munich’s coffee houses learned about waste from beer culture

Environment

Take-out coffee cups are a popular American import that are filling up the country’s trash bins. Now there’s an effort in Munich to replace throwaway cups with cups you borrow and return, inspired by the longstanding practice at the city’s famous beer gardens.

Coffee cup

Can coffee become the world’s first 100 percent sustainable agricultural product?

Environment
Trash generated on land is flowing into the ocean at much higher rates than previous numbers suggest, according to a new study in the journal "Science."

Forget the floating Pacific garbage patch — new trash entering the oceans is much worse

Environment
Moldy oranges

Improving the ‘cold chain’ could help reduce global hunger and lessen the effects of climate change

Global Politics
Bon Appétit's low-carbon food plan calls for putting vegetables at the center of the plate. Making the plate smaller cuts down on waste.

Cafeteria lunch: Industrial kitchens dish out climate-friendly cuisine

Environment

Vertical lunch: To increase food production, crowded Singapore looks up

Environment

A new super-efficient vertical farming system is helping increase food security and reduce the climate impact of food production for the 5 million residents of crowded Singapore.

In Mexico City, Harvesting Water from the Sky

Environment

Faced with chronic water shortages, many residents of Mexico City aren’t wafting for the city government to fix things. They’re turning to the sky.

The World

William McDonough: Godfather of Green

Arts, Culture & Media

William McDonough is a grand old man in the young field of green architecture. In the 1970s, he built the first “green roof” in America and is now working on a sustainable building for NASA. Kurt Andersen asks him about environmental design.

Fuel from straw — a biofuel breakthrough?

Environment

The World’s Clark Boyd reports from Denmark on a new factory that’s making ethanol from straw. If the technology pans out, supporters hope it will help replace both gasoline and biofuels made from food crops.

The World

Green Rockers

Arts, Culture & Media

Corn-based shrink wrap on the CDs, biofuel buses, recycling riders, organic hair spray: this is the greening of rock n’ roll. Sarah Lemanczyk talked to the indie rock band Cloud Cult, which manages its carbon footprint and has fun at the same time.