NEXT LEADERS INITIATIVE FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Coming together for a sustainable planet ~ The global family I've been collaborating with the past few years https://vimeo.com/286996250
Katie Conlon Jun 16, 2018
Plastic, recycled and upcycled in the rural context
Video of an experiment I made visiting a backyard plastic recycler in a village outside of Colombo. We are doing an experiment to 'test' what kind of plastic constitutes these objects. In the rural context, there is no lab to verify if the plastic is #2 or #6...
The Gift of Clean Drinking Water: How water is building international friendships and fundamentally changing life for villages in North Central Sri Lanka
Winding along the bumpy backroads through intermittent rice field and jungle, the last village took hours of backroads navigation skills to find. But then, around the corner, the first line of village welcome: a 50-deep motorcycle squad, the ‘motorcade’ for their...
Learn with the head, heart and hands ~
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 (economy)...
*1 item in PET plastic = 100x more toxins than the same item in glass*
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...
Slow down to tune in ~
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,...
How can food be labeled Organic, if it is wrapped in Plastic?
Why do we only label what is on the inside of packaging, but not the packaging itself? Packaging is treated as if it is invisible, harmless, a non-entity, but in reality it is often made of harmful plastics. Many studies show that plastics leach chemicals used in...
First Daughter, Black Snake
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...
Ethics of climate change and farmer suicides
The ethics of climate change are monumental. It will take the heroism and dedication of the civil rights era, extended to recognize our global citizenship and interconnectedness. We are all part of this same earth canoe. We have no choice but to work together. ...
More collectivism, less capitalism
On the perils of capitalism: It’s the same logic that sold lives for profit in the Atlantic slave trade, it’s the logic that gives us sweatshops and oil spills, and it’s the logic that is right now pushing us headlong toward ecological collapse and climate...