#sustainabilty

[why-cant-we-be-solarpunk]

Friendly reminder to save your strawberry tops! They're totally edible, and excellent in smoothies

[vattamacska]

Last year I joined to the One Planet Week art challenge on Instagram, hosted and founded by the talented Asia Pérez Orlando and Danii Pollehn. I think it's very important to help raising awareness on environmental issues through art and use our talent to help where we can. After the challenge the founders contacted and selected 100 amazing artists that were happy to donate their artwork for the book, because all the proceedings of the book will be donated. I'm a happy and proud one of the 100 :) So please pledge the book on Kickstarter here: https://lnkd.in/dr9nAY5 You can read more about the book and tha campaign here: https://lnkd.in/dYmd9Bz If you like my art follow me: https://www.instagram.com/szisszmok https://society6.com/szisszm0k https://www.behance.net/szisszm0k

[femmanist]

students skipping school to demonstrate for our planet

[realcleverscience]

As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling

With China no longer accepting used plastic and paper, communities are facing steep collection bills, forcing them to end their programs or burn or bury more waste.

This is so fucked up. It also means that most of these potentially recyclable materials are just being dumped into regular waste streams, or, as the article notes, making some effort to deal with it, such as burning it for energy (which also produces some nasty pollution). And municipalities (i.e. YOU) are paying through the nose in trying to manage the problem. 

So manufacturers get to save money by using cheap plastic, but the public ends up with higher municipal costs, more pollution and plastic waste, and little to do to manage it.

Personally, I’d like to see a law demanding a switch to sustainable and biodegradable materials. For one, recycling is not super efficient. For plastic, it’s mostly “down-cycled”, which means that it can only be reused a few times, and each time for a lower quality product. For another, if we used biodegradable plastic, we wouldn’t need to worry about any of this. It would cost manufacturers slightly more to produce the packaging (at least for now while R&D and manufacturing for eco-plastic is still somewhat young), but consumers and the planet essentially don’t have to worry about consumption patterns, which is good, bc they are extremely hard to change.

[garbedgedesigns]

Hard at work returning this ratty wool blanket to the status of newborn. From trash to treasure on a Sunday afternoon.

[generationnextfashion-blog]

There's always room to learn, and to love people for who they are ❤️🌈 @jimmycarr @kathbum thanks the fighting the good fight 💪🏻 #generationnext #yourfaceormine #indentity #equality #sustainabilty #individuality (at Generation Next HQ) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqvG8j8Hdkz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uaaf00hwbm8c

[mymodernmet]

Stunning Vertical Forest Brings City Dwellers Closer to Nature

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Why there’s no such thing as a perfect vegan

Almost everything we eat involves some kind of animal suffering – but we can do our best to minimise it

A reasonable article on why this lifestyle choice doesn't have to be the flashpoint it is treated as by society, or torture for the individual