Rachel Koning Beals
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Mountain View, CA, United States
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Buying a home and worried about wildfires? There's a free tool to check your risk
First Street Foundation and Realtor.com add a wildfire feature to already searchable flood data on their updated Risk Factor tool. → Read More
This Arbor Day and any day: Plant a tree and make money in the long run
Money may not grow on trees, but there's value and savings to be had when you plant them --- for households and the environment. → Read More
Earth Day warning: 9 million more Americans hit with bad air this year, American Lung Association says
Nearly 9 million more people were impacted by potentially deadly particle pollution than at this time last year, the American Lung Association says. → Read More
Biden's climate envoy Kerry gives natural gas a 10-year expiration date
John Kerry: ‘You’ve got to come up with a means by which you’re going to capture , and if you’re not capturing, then we have to deploy alternative sources of energy’ → Read More
What is Earth Day? Why celebrating it matters to your money and your health
From Elon Musk's XPrize for carbon capture to Amazon's eco-product savings and Nike's single shipping box, Earth Day has evolved to cover health and commerce. → Read More
New York Public Library makes banned books free on its app
Cardholders can download hundreds of thousands of titles, but Books for All offers a select 'banned' list to anyone, anywhere with a tablet or smartphone. → Read More
'Beer man here... for your empties': Anheuser Busch and MLB will add recycling hawkers to the stands
Anheuser-Busch is partnering with MLB and the NFL for a promotion to encourage correctly recycling empty beer cans, bottles and cups. → Read More
Biden to allow more ethanol in effort to ease gas prices
President Biden will temporarily allow gasoline with 15% ethanol to be sold between June 1 and Sept. 15. Normally only a 10% blend can be sold in the summer. → Read More
Yankee Stadium will start using biodegradable straws made from canola oil
Opening Day at Yankee Stadium will see WinCup’s Phade straws and cocktail stirrers, which look and perform like traditional straws, taking the stands. They were featured at this year’s Super Bowl. → Read More
World Bank lowers outlook for China, broader East Asia based on Russia's energy impact, rising U.S. rates
China’s economy is expected to grow 5.0% this year, down from a previous estimate of 5.4%, the World Bank said. → Read More
IKEA will pay you to return its old furniture
The IKEA buy back and resell option was launched last year as a pilot and is now available permanently for select items at 37 of its U.S. stores. → Read More
Processed foods like ramen packets and frozen pizza can hurt your heart
Our reliance on packaged ramen, frozen pizza and too much pasta doesn't only put our health at risk --- highly processed diets are damaging the planet, study... → Read More
'Pouring gasoline on the fire': JPMorgan, Citi and other U.S. banks lead rise in lending to oil and gas: report
JPMorgan, Citi, Wells Fargo and Bank of America in all account for 25% of fossil fuel financing in the last six years, since the Paris climate pact was signed. → Read More
Plastic found in human blood for the first time. Is this a public health risk?
Evidence of microplastics in human blood requires study to understand health concerns. Production of the life-changing technology looks to quadruple by 2050. → Read More
It's very rare for a tornado to hit New Orleans
'Tornado alley' is shifting to states farther east from the Plains states, but connecting climate change to twisters remains complicated. → Read More
8 simple ways to save lives and money for World Water Day
World Water Day reminds us that tightening faucet connections and turning any commode into a low-flow toilet are small ways to save a vital resource. → Read More
Banks are still working with oil and gas companies, despite joining climate pledge
Fewer than half of 150 major banks and financial institutions have significantly limited their business with the oil-and-gas sector. → Read More
This shaving-cream company's cheeky campaign urges people to donate their pubic hair to save the planet
Eos is helping customers turn their personal grooming into donations for a renewable resource nonprofit that specializes in repurposing discarded hair. → Read More
Redlining legacy still devastates neighborhoods — but this particular harm comes from pollution
Black and Latino people live with more smog and fine particulate matter from traffic, coal plants and other sources in once-redlined areas compared to... → Read More
Microsoft and Pepsi top this list that scores greenhouse-gas emissions progress; Tesla and others are 'failing'
Sustainable-investing advocate As You Sow ranks 55 companies who've pledged net-zero emissions but may be slow to act. → Read More