'You have to find your why and for me it started out with the environment and I needed to feel like I was doing my part,' says zero waste blogger Katelin Leblond. 'For some people it's the financial aspect, some people it's the minimalist aspect but I have yet to meet a person who has adopted any sort of level of zero waste that has regretted it.'
Precious Plastic | Reducing plastic waste, everywhere
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The no-flush movement: the unexpected rise of the composting toilet
We squander masses of clean water flushing away our own waste instead of using it as fertiliser. But a lavatorial eco revolution has now begun
All my trash for a year fit into two plastic bags. Here’s how I did it.
Giving up plastic forks, new clothes and even toilet paper for an exercise in conservation.
Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve
Even if you put everything into the right blue bins, a lot of plastics will end up in landfills and the ocean. Consumers can't solve this problem.
Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns
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Compost Fairy
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Social Influence and Action — Jen Christiansen
I’m wary of climate solutions that are hyper focused on the action of individuals as opposed to systems and corporations. Do you experience carbon footprint guilt every time you board a plane to visit family too? Well, that whole schema was a product of the PR firm Ogilvy & Mather for British Petroleum. It was an effort to shift focus away from oil companies and onto individual responsibility to lower greenhouse gas emissions. For more, read “The carbon footprint sham” by Mark Kaufman for Mashable in 2021, and “Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook” by Rebecca Solnit for The Guardian.
The Environmental Case for the Garbage Disposal
From a waste-management perspective, the in-sink tool punches far above its weight.
Trashwiki: the world-wide guide to dumpster diving
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On the use of a life
First, to dispense with the philosophical argument: Yes, this is my life, and yes, I'm free to use — or waste — it however I please; but I don't think there's anything wrong with asking if this is how my time could be best spent. That applies doubly if the question is not merely about the choices I made but is rather a broader question: Is our society structured in a way which encourages people to make less than the greatest contribution they could?
There isn’t a simple story about looting
“The question you have to ask yourself is: Why are there so many people in our society who don’t have a lot to lose?” says sociologist Darnell Hunt.
Circular Economy
The circular economy prioritises the reuse of materials, preventing the over extraction of natural resources and usable materials that end up in landfill.
Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience (Published 2018)
All the personal tasks in our lives are being made easier. But at what cost?
The Fediverse of Things
One of the most frustrating things in modern technology is the effort spent trying to artificially restrict abundance. Take, for example, this tale from museum-worker Aaron Cope: I was out with a friend who worked for Twitter and I asked them whether it would be possible for the museum to “create 200,000 Twitter accounts, one for each object in the Cooper Hewitt’s collection”. My friend looked a…
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