Those amazing people at ELAW (website), published an entire monthly update on Plastic, the problems, issues and where progress is being made around the world. ELAW also set up a plastic resource center – check it out here https://elaw.org/plastic. ELAW is pleased to present this overview of laws designed to tackle the growing problem of…
Fast Company published a piece on our plastic recently. What caught my attention in this post was its novel approach to focus on a full life cycle rather than just after the consumer ‘threw it away’. Before they approach problem details, they set up why this discussion is important now. An international agreement to end plastic…
In my recent post on selfies and their destructive power, I called it an existential threat. I seriously intended it to be bi-directional threat – to humans and to nature (trees especially coming from the redwoods). A photographer publication, Photography, published an article last week focusing on Banff National Park (CA) and the threat to…
My recent experiences in the Redwoods further pushed some thinking from readings and observations about the existential threat of today’s humans seemingly irrational drive to attract attention to themselves. The “Look at me!” drive I am starting to name it. This human drive seems in today’s modern cultural mix as strong as that of hunger,…
From my recent adventure in Redwoods National and State Parks, the redwood trees left a huge impression. National Parks published a short piece on the redwoods, and Wikipedia dove into the trees’ origins. Here is a snippet from the Parks’ publication: Exactly why the redwoods grow so tall is a mystery. Theories continue to develop…
Plastics are everywhere, all the time. The list of dangerous chemicals and horrendous outcomes due to plastics cannot be overstated it seems to me. Yet, after 4 (FOUR!) formal discussion meetings on a plastics treaty, world leaders and their industry adovcates are no closer to a treaty. Grist summarized the conference well. “Nothing happened that…
