Earth911.com's Sustainability In Your Ear

Peter Fiekowsky, founder and president of The Health Climate Alliance, returns for part two of a discussion about carbon capture and sequestration technologies that mine the air to remove excess CO2. The Health Climate Alliance's goal is to return the atmosphere to the CO2 levels our great-grandparents lived in, with normal weather patterns and a robust Arctic ice sheet.

Join the Earth911 gang to talk through how to recycle a whole building, which online services are most sustainable, and whether your favorite sunscreen has been banned in Hawaii. We also discuss adventure camping upcycling projects, the introduction of Stuffstr's resale service with British retailer John Lewis, and answer reader questions: Is recycling a myth? (no, but it can be much better) and whether used coloring books are recyclable.

Terry Lehmann, founder and CEO of True Green Enterprises, talks with Earth911's Mitch Ratcliffe about her company's new biodegradable hot cup and bamboo straws. True Green is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, and has a growing range of sustainably made recyclable paper products. We'll also hear from Lehmann about the challenges and opportunities in green products for women entrepreneurs.

This week, the Earth911.com team dives into keeping honeybees at home, as well as what to do when visited by an unwanted swarm. Learn which five jobs are ideal for recent environmental and sustainability grads and how to build a regular recycling routine into your day. In reader questions, find out what to do when you discover an abandoned tank of freon. It's a banned chemical, but the large white cylinders freon came in before it was discontinued are still lurking out there.

Feeding America, the largest food collection and distribution network in the United States, is tackling food waste in a new campaign to get restaurants and grocers to donate food rather than send it to landfills. The MealConnect program seeks to reduce the nearly 50 percent of food wasted between the field and the home. You can encourage local business to participate, as well as volunteer to work in the community. Liz Baldridge, director of Sustainability and Food Waste Initiatives, and Zuani Villareal, director of Communication, at FeedingAmerica.org join us to discuss food waste.

The Earth911 team talks IKEA's new commitment to sustainable products and removing single-use utensils from its stores, as well as how the United States will upgrade its power grid for renewable energy and the recycling secrets of stealth electronics. We'll also talk through natural alternatives to allergy medicines, the growing awareness that plastic straws are a major form of pollution, and how to recycle mattresses.

This week, the Earth911.com team talks about the latest in solar panel technology and the latest Nordic exercise craze, Plogging. It combines jogging and picking up litter. We'll also discuss cutting our travel carbon footprints through the reducing plastic use on airline flights and look ahead to a June race across the Pacific. The all-woman crew of Ripple Effect will try to break the human-powered best time for crossing the Pacific Ocean, straight though the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This week’s interview is with physicist Peter Fiekowsky, founder of the Health Climate Alliance. Peter and his team have a plan to return global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to 300 parts per million, the same environment our grandparents enjoyed – and they plan to do it in the next 22 years. And, as always, we’ll be answering questions from Earthlings!

The Earth911 gang will look into the future of plastic-eating bacteria, what eco-conscious travelers should be looking for when considering visits to wildlife experience, and whether a family-owned business is more environmentally friendly than a public company. We also check out the five greenest U.S. cities to visit this year, according to RewardExpert.comOur interview this week will dig into the future of dirt with Brian Scott, CEO of PittMoss, a recycled paper soil replacement product available now. Brian’s team won Shark Tank funding a couple years ago and is dedicated to reducing the mining of peat for garden use. PittMoss is expanding to build plants close to regional sources of recycled paper.And, as always, we’ll respond to questions from Earthlings, the smartest readers in the world.

Join Evelyn Lopez and Mitch Ratcliffe to talk recycling and Earth-friendly living. This week, Earth911.com writer Lisa Beres joins the conversation to talk no-stick cookware that is healthy and safe for the environment. Learn how to recycle the backing peeled off stickers and what to do you can and can't do when recycling styrofoam cups, as well as how Amazon's new shipping envelopes are a step in the right direction. We also take a tour of an eco-village and learn what it takes to make the move from new residents.

This week's theme is the Circular Economy, Evelyn Lopez and the Earth911 team talk recycling swords, pet food packaging, and old deck stain and cleaners. You'll hear about Art From Scrap, a project of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Explore Ecology that makes upcycling a citywide activity. We explore the introduction of lab-grown meat, which writer Vic Bondi described as "savory" but not exacly like meat, as well as the relaxation products that are environmentally friendly. Mitch Ratcliffe interviews John Atcheson, cofounder and CEO of Stuffstr, an app that will let you track what you buy at a retailer and resell it later at the touch of a button.