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From coal mine to solar farm

Tomorrow is Earth Day: a celebration of our planet and a call-to-action to help take care of it. This often involves community-wide clean-up efforts and education outreach. The former tends to include things like litter pick-ups or recycling events. The latter usually includes reiterating ...

Mon Valley Habitat's ReStore hosting an Earth Day promotion today

Today is Earth Day, an observance that in many ways is about repurposing. Which is also what the ReStore is about. The ReStore at 1825 Earl L. Core Road in Sabraton is an affiliate operation of Mon Valley Habitat for Humanity, the organization that builds houses for people who might not ...

This Earth Day, combine concern with concrete action

Tomorrow is Earth Day — the one day of the year we set aside to actively think about ways we can maintain and improve our planet. In each of the last three years, we’ve looked at Earth Day from a different angle: generational concern about climate change, the intersection of personal and ...

Can Gen Z save the Earth? Or will we destroy it first?

The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970. In the 52 years since that first celebration, we — all of humanity — have actively done more to harm the environment than we have to protect it. If that weren’t the case, climate scientists wouldn’t be ringing the alarm every other month that ...

April 22 letters to the editor

Albright Dam removal a win for climate resilience The results of climate change have created uncertainty about the future for young people. With the climate emergency intensifying each year, contamination threats, and increasing water scarcity, it is unclear what the environment will be ...