Ecotoolbox

Can eco-fashion ever be sexy? Danish fashionista Eva Kruse is leading the charge to make our wardrobes greener.

CNN reports here: An old meatpacking plant on Chicago’s South Side is being transformed into an eco farm, which its founders says will produce food sustainably, while creating zero waste.

BBC News reports here: European governments are backsliding on commitments to make fishing sustainable, campaigners warn, with commitments weakening on banning discards and achieving healthy stocks.

BBC News reports here: The latest round of UN climate talks is nearing its end, with observers saying little progress has been made against a “coalition of the unwilling”.

Spiegel Online reports here: Germany’s energy revolution has hardly begun, but it’s already running out of steam. There is a lack of political decisiveness and companies are complaining of a dearth of incentives to invest billions in necessary infrastructure. Progress or no progress, taxpayers continue footing the bill.

Explore this map at CNN to see ecological successes and failures.

BBC News reports here: Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere.