Fast Fashion
This Chinese fast fashion giant, known for its ultra-low prices and rapid turnover of trends, has faced criticism for its environmental footprint and labor practices.
What is Shein?
This renewable energy source harnesses the sun’s rays to produce electricity.
What is solar power?
The three R’s of waste management.
What are reduce, reuse, and recycle?
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, this U.S. city became a symbol of both climate vulnerability and the power of grassroots-led rebuilding and resilience.
What is New Orleans?
This streaming platform produced Extrapolations, a series exploring humanity’s future under climate crisis.
What is Apple TV+?
This material, commonly used in fast fashion due to its low cost and versatility, has a significant carbon footprint, contributing to both greenhouse gas emissions and microplastic pollution.
What is polyester?
This term refers to products designed to completely decompose into natural elements without harming the environment.
What is biodegradable?
This type of bin is used to decompose organic waste like food scraps and yard trimmings.
What is a compost bin?
This desert region in North Africa can drop below freezing at night—even though it's one of the hottest places on Earth by day.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Extrapolations uses this narrative technique, where episodes jump across time to show a fragmented future.
What is non-linear storytelling?
The environmental cost of producing cheap garments often leads to the exploitation of cotton, the majority of which is grown using large amounts of this resource.
What is water?
Electric cars commonly rely on this type of rechargeable battery.
What is a lithium-ion battery?
This term describes plastics that breakdown into microscopic fragments, now found in oceans, rainwater, and human bloodstreams.
What are microplastics?
The long-term pattern of temperature and precipitation in a region is known as this.
What is climate?
A central theme in the series, this term refers to the permanent loss of species and biodiversity due to climate change and human activity.
What is extinction?
Known for its commitment to environmental responsibility, this outdoor clothing brand has taken bold steps to counter fast fashion by offering lifetime repairs and encouraging customers to buy used clothing through its Worn Wear program.
What is Patagonia?
This "hot" renewable tech uses Earth’s internal heat to warm homes or generate electricity—and it’s not just for Iceland.
What is geothermal energy?
The massive floating collection of debris in the Pacific Ocean is commonly known as this.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
This gas, with the formula CH₄, is over 25 times more potent than CO₂ in trapping heat.
What is methane?
In Extrapolations, a biotech company digitizes this part of a dying humpback whale’s mind, blurring the line between species preservation and exploitation.
What is consciousness (or memory)?
This well-known fast fashion brand was involved in a major scandal in 2013, with the collapse of its Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh, killing over 1,000 workers.
What is Walmart? (or Primark, H&M—multiple answers possible)
This futuristic building material, sometimes called “living concrete,” uses bacteria to absorb CO₂ from the air and can even self-heal cracks, offering a radical rethink of how we build sustainably.
What is bioconcrete (or self-healing concrete)?
Once destined for landfills, these waste-eating fungi are now being used to biodegrade plastics, clean up oil spills, and even create sustainable packaging—proving that sometimes the solution really does grow on you.
What are mycelium (or mushrooms, or fungi)?
This South American country was the first to grant legal rights to nature in its constitution, helping protect its diverse ecosystems from climate extremes.
What is Ecuador?
The series examines this ethical issue, where wealthy individuals or nations use their resources to shield themselves from climate impacts while others suffer.
What is climate inequality (or climate apartheid)?