[lanewinfield] knew there had to be a better way, and looked to the pull chain switch for salvation. Sure, this could just as easily be a button, but what’s the fun in that? Besides, few buttons ...

You can see the metal gripper which is reaching up to tug on a light-fixture-style pull chain. This is how it turns itself off after you’ve pulled the string to power it up. The device is ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics, and take ...

Aldi left plastic shopping bags in 2023 — literally. The grocery store chain says it became the first major U.S. retailer to eliminate plastic shopping bags from its stores by the end of 2023 ...

Chain gangs developed as a popular solution to that problem. Chain gangs were groups of convicts forced to labor at tasks such as road construction, ditch digging, or farming while chained together.

It might be hard to believe, but we’re just days away from Black Friday 2023. With Thanksgiving on the horizon, it’s time to start planning for the biggest shopping period of the year.

passing the problem back up the food chain – to us. Plastic is found in the deepest reaches of the ocean, and even in remote Arctic sea ice. It’s a sobering example of our footprint on Earth. As our ...

In very personal terms, he also described his experience at Trinity: Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing ...

Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to bigger fish and marine mammals. Microplastics are also consumed by people through food and in the air. It’s estimated ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish and shellfish we ... and because their characteristics may change as creatures along the food chain consume, metabolize, or excrete them.

I’m Executive Director of Blockchain Foundation in Washington D.C. September 23, 2023, Black Blockchain Summit Co-founder Sinclair Skinner with Dr. Tonya Evans at ... [+] Howard University's ...