The industrial food complex is an extremely competitive industry and companies that don't adapt and look for new markets are likely to lose margins and lose out to their competition. (After all corporations have a fiduciary duty to maintain growth). To be...
What is Zero Waste and what could it potentially look like? Is it possible to act consciously and responsibly toward materials minimization and recovery? How can a community shift their behavior from waste apathy (incineration) to waste accountability and...
We live in a world where we outsource and externalize problems of waste and pollution onto marginalized populations and geographies. The documentary Plastic China peels back the layers that hide how the western world's waste is managed, and shows how waste that...
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...
Jellyfish or plastic bag? A hungry seabird doesn't think to ask. [Longbeach,...
The amount of plastic produced in a year is roughly the same as the entire weight of humanity...take a minute to digest this bit of information. The rate that we consume is inverse to the health of the planet. Read more on the catastrophe plastic bottle...
In just 10 min I picked up over 30 plastic pieces. fragments from items it only took people a few minutes to use and discard, modern conveniences that will last for decades to come..the irony of using something to save time, that in the end costs the earth a lot of...
The world is awash with policy and rules that are made to facilitate business and the flow of goods and materials. Trade policy, partnerships, economic theory that runs international discussions etc., and yet, we have no accountability for the pollution the global...
In the future we may come up with the technology to mine our landfills. But, for now, we go to war for oil and freely dump tons of it everyday back into massive pits in the ground. Minerals are mined at the great cost of child and slave labor, yet placed in...
Cotton (ag intensive) = pesticides Polyester = oil Style needs to be redefined, it's not cool junk up the planet. See more on the ecological impacts of the fashion industry...