A Journey to Understanding Sustainability
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Katie Conlon Jan 19, 2021
Plastic Effects on Human Health
Here's an interview I did with Prana Nutrition Cures on plastics and the effects of exposure on human health. The characteristics that define plastic - it's cheap, its durable, it's flexible, it's lightweight - have led to plastic's prevalence around the globe. But...
No Away, but a way forward
Recycling is a misunderstood word. People often associate it as a positive action, with beneficial results for society. However, race-to-the bottom globalization of the waste trade has resulted in a situation where recycling is often not a service actually provided...
More Microplastics in the Sea than Stars in the Sky
As long as there is increased production of plastics, we will have increasing and accumulating plastic pollution across the globe, in urban and remote areas as these microplastics cannot be contained. Most companies are still designed around this endless growth...
Prophecy from a Scorched Earth ~
Powerful feelings of loss in the face of cruel destruction; of nature-based ways of life disappearing; of oppressive ways of living on this planet stomping out place-based, traditional knowledge; of history repeating itself..."You destroy our lands, poison the...
Packaging Facts : A new way to see what you buy
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...
Caught in the Treadmill of Wasting
"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...
What can we learn from collapse, and how does the global response to material markets parallel with climate change?
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...
Our sacred task
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...
Like nuclear fallout, it’s everywhere …..macroplastics, microplastics, nanoplastics
‘We’ve done more damage to the environment since the United Nations established its climate change framework in 1992 than we did in all the millennia that preceded it’ (*caps all collected from one beach...