Posts by Ryan Schleeter
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10 things you’ve always wanted to ask the students skipping school to fight climate change
"Adults - if you feel uncomfortable now, you’re going to feel uncomfortable for a while. Because we’re never going to back down."
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Plastic straws are just the tip of the iceberg
Let's make 2019 the year we break free from plastic for good.
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Why we’re not done fighting for justice for Berta Cáceres
Last week, seven men were found guilty of murdering the award-winning activist, but the struggle to protect environmental defenders is nowhere near over.
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Governments have failed to protect the Antarctic — but this isn’t over
Government leaders have failed, but the 2.7 million people calling for an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary will come back stronger than ever to protect our blue planet.
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These 10 companies are flooding the planet with throwaway plastic
Volunteers collected and catalogued more than 187,000 pieces of trash from beach cleanups around the world to find out who’s flooding our planet with plastic.
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5 reasons your city should go car-free
Even if it's just for a day.
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Justice for Berta Cáceres, justice for people and the planet
Violence against environmental defenders is at an all-time high. It’s time for action.
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How I woke up to the plastic pollution problem
"The water seemed more like a trash site than ocean."
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Plastics aren’t just polluting our oceans — they’re releasing greenhouse gases
As if you needed another reason to break free from plastic there's now a link between greenhouse gases and plastic in the environment.
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Energy Transfer Partners’ attacks on human rights, free speech and the environment have officially gone too far
And they don’t show any signs of stopping.