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Reduce your use/exposure to chemicals and packaging. At least there is one country that is taking the link between chemicals in products and health seriously!! PFAS exposure includes: liver damage, thyroid disease, decreased fertility, high cholesterol, obesity,...
Instead of seeing the problem of too much waste and asking a logical question like: ‘why don’t we make less of it? What tap should we turn off?’ More and more these sorts of deceptive/distractive ‘solutions’ are popping up. The last thing we need is more chemicals...
We are not immune to the repercussions of our actions. How personal does the problem need to become in order to act on it? When something happens to 'the environment out there' is it easier to turn a blind eye? Why do we draw a line to delineate the self and other?...
What if we had ‘Packaging Facts’ similarly to how we have ‘Ingredients Facts’ mandated for products today? We know what is inside our food, but what about on the outside? These 'Packaging Facts' labels would be justified not only for the health of the consumer -due...
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate" -Jung. Even at the end of the day, if the waste management system works seamlessly, efficiently, it is still destroying and wasting resources at a faster and faster rate...
The global recycling markets effectively collapsed in January 2018. It was not a slow decline, but a sudden jolt due to an abrupt shift in Chinese policy. China up until this point had been the ‘golden egg-laying goose’ of US, Australia, Japan, Europe, and...
Trying to understand waste issues is like pulling a string and unraveling a whole sweater. Processes that are more 'masked' or 'hidden' in the US or Europe or Japan, are laid bare in places like India. A lot of people complain about 'mis-management' of waste here....
Despair, but be aware -Some people profit from destruction,some benefit from war,poverty makes other's rich,sickness, another's bounty,and waste in one's eyes is another's bread.When we fight against external circumstancesthings never change, becausefoes to be...
Our role as humans is to live in harmony with the earth, Our role as humans is to live in harmony with the earth,To steward the thriving and abundance of plants and animals on this planet.We are failing at our sacred task andWe forget what gives us life. We play...
I am all about collaborations, and this work between Keb Mo and Plastic Pollution Coalition is some of the best teamwork I've heard lately : ) If I had a 5th grade class, I would definitely be teaching them this song...