While reading a recent new book, Enlightenment Now, I now read with renewed skepticism and critical analysis of their assumptions, arguments and conclusions (inferences). Enlightenment Now will resurface on Kestrel once completed, but it already has altered my thinking patterns some. With that background, a recent article in Grist on world food insecurity deserves mention…
The Institute of Bank America published a great short piece on plastic and its circular economy. A strange place for good plastic research and needed investments. I found it well worth the read. There were two key points that I found important. First, a circular economy for any product cycle is heavily dependent on the…
One of my favorite places for data, Statista.com, just published a piece on the growth of plastic waste. Their projections are scarier than historical. How did we get here? You will find more infographics at Statista What does it look like going forward? In just two decades, the global annual production of plastic waste has…
A random (I really don’t know how I was on this list) publication arrived in my inbox this morning from a publication called Barn Raiser. Here’s their tag-line: “Your independent source for rural and small town news”. The article that caught me was from a multi-generation farmer from Montana, and how corporate oligarchies and government…
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…
