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...
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,...
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...
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When the people lead, The leaders will follow. Be creative, Be a warrior of light, Everyone’s unique gift is needed to counter injustice. Move forward, Have strength, Give attention to those who care, And offer something back to keep the momentum...
The twentieth century, which was born proclaiming peace and justice, died bathed in blood. It passed on a world much more unjust than the one it inherited. The twenty-first century, which also arrived heralding peace and justice, is following in its predecessor's...
The invisible light that plants emit
Not a happy message, but a critical one: 'Terrorism is time-released fear...it is most effective when we allow fear to take root in our culture. Then it’s only a matter of time before we become fractured, isolated, and driven by our perceptions of scarcity.' Read...
Strength like a mountain, tireless soul, Winona is a beacon for current and future generations, those trying to navigate a way through these challenging times, eyes wide, head high keep the spirit alive ~ Watch...
If we want to continue to evolve consciously as the human species, without poisoning ourselves and the rest of earth's ecosystems, we need to drastically reduce the amount of plastics we produce and use. Relying on oil for energy, relying on oil for plastics, this...