After reading Mark and Delia Owens (post here) work the veterinarian fences in East Africa caught my attention and I followed up everywhere I could to find a NGO working to remove / improve fencing. Null … just nothing. Finally this last week, a great piece with good stories and details about fences’ evil and…
This post I stumbled upon from The Guardian. The key to the post was a research paper in Frontiers in Plant Science. Here’s the Guardian’s summary that should get everybody’s attention. Streetlights left on all night cause leaves to become so tough that insects cannot eat them, threatening the food chain, a study has found….
Grist published an article explaining the day – there’s a day called “Earth Overshoot Day”. “Earth Overshoot Day” reminds us that humans consume more resources than the planet can provide. Correcting that requires reimagining human behavior. Grist Humans have taken more from earth than the earth can supply within balance since 1971. The question for…
A Grist post on plastic pickers really got me this morning. Here’s the set up and helps answer, ‘who are plastic pickers?’ an estimated 20 million people make a living by collecting discarded plastic, aluminum, and other refuse from dumpsites and landfills and selling it to recyclers. They’re called “waste pickers,” and though their work is essential…
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…
