This is seriously useful stuff 3M… Kind of stuff that is welcome.
It really counts… Even if you could avoid just one Plastic Bag. Please say No to PLASTIC BAGS.
Featured in Communication Arts’ 2011 Design Annual, this print ad was created for the Centre for Science and Environment by design agency Equus Red Cell. The copy on the bottom reads PLASTIC BAG USE IS A CAPITAL OFFENSE. The ad is brilliant and barely needs any explanation at all. I love the simplicity, the attitude and the messaging.
(via nocarbon)
240,000: Number of plastic bags consumed worldwide every 10 seconds
1 billion: Number of plastic bags Americans use every year
30,000 tons: Landfill waste created from plastic bags each year
Less than 1 percent: Amount of plastic bags that are recycled
$4,000: Cost of recycling 1 ton of plastic bags
$32: The amount that recycled product can be sold for
Read more about our garbage by the numbers.
(Source: mothernaturenetwork, via nocarbon)
"The organism and the environment are not actually separately determined. The environment is not a structure imposed on living beings from the outside but is in fact a creation of those beings. The environment is not an autonomous process but a reflection of the biology of the species. Just as there is no organism without an environment, so there is no environment without an organism."
— Francisco J. Varela, Evan T. Thompson, Eleanor Rosch ( The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience)
Environment & Growth
Today on TimesNow debate Mr. Rahul Bajaj & Mr. Mohandas Pai were blaming the government for not allowing coal mining in the forest areas. One of them objected to Mr. Jairam Ramesh not allowing coal mining to take place in the forest areas. They were talking about “striking a balance” and “inaction”.
Sorry dear Industrialists, protecting forests is not inaction & allowing coal mines to destroy forests is not action. Sure we need power but we need clean power that doesn’t destroy our forests, pollute our environment or displace millions of people.
Whenever the industrialists want to grab land or encroach already shrinking forests, they talk about “impediments to growth” & so called “striking a balance”.
By the way, what does striking a balance mean? Where do we strike a balance if we only want to grow all the time, endlessly?
Who stands for forests? Who stands for wildlife? And what growth are we talking about? Growth like an outburst of Ebola that consumes everything destroying itself at the end?
Foolish or smart we must protect the Forests.
Jairam Ramesh who was a performing Environment Minister has been moved. Are they making way to looters? Shifting him doesn’t make any sense.
Jairam Ramesh who was a performing Environment Minister has been moved. Are they making way to looters? Shifting him doesn’t make any sense.
According to BBC News - India’s Environment & Forests ministry has given a go-ahead to build an underground Neutrino Observatory near Bodi West hills in TamilNadu. The facility will be a fifth of it’s kind in the world and would cost about $270m.
I wonder what the environmental impact of this project is, given that it is being built in the Western Ghats region.
“According to the Living Planet Report, human demands on natural resources have doubled in under 50 years and are now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half; and humanity carries on as it is in use of resources, globally it will need the capacity of two Earths by 2030.”
"Some villages have their own answers to food security, health security and even climate change. Read more http://bit.ly/cSHXLu"
