by Katie Conlon | Dec 17, 2017 | Enviro-Consciousness, Localization, Uncategorized
Watch Satish Kumar, cofounder of Schumacher College and renowned spiritual and ecological thinker, discuss solutions we can bring to our education systems: working with the head, heart, and hands. The over-accentuation of the management of earth’s systems...
by Katie Conlon | Dec 3, 2017 | Enviro-Consciousness, Plastic, Pollution
~‘Waste’ may be out of human sight in one area, but it is never out of the global mind.~ How ‘waste’ is discussed determines the level of the problem and the remedial solutions. If overconsumption is the problem, then solutions target consumerist norms. However, waste...
by Katie Conlon | Dec 2, 2017 | Enviro-Consciousness, Localization, Plastic, Pollution
Re-envisioning Materials Use ~ The EPA says manufacturing an item with PET plastic is effectively creating 100 times the amount of toxins as the same item made of glass (Rogers, 2005). Humans were able to design goods without plastics for thousands of years, with our...
by Katie Conlon | Nov 30, 2017 | Enviro-Consciousness, Localization
Positive psychologist Mihaly (2004) says our nervous system can only process 60bits per second, just enough to hear one person talk. More than one person talking at the same time and it already gets distracting. What kind of effects then, does our modern, fast-paced,...
by Katie Conlon | Nov 29, 2017 | EcoJustice, Enviro-Consciousness, Pollution
It is ironic that global environmental change discourse warns of resource scarcity, of food scarcity, of water scarcity, when human society and the earth faces an abundance of waste. It is as if our equation is in reverse, and we are creating outputs of exactly what...
