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In September, with a last-minute Grabaseat ticket, I jumped on an Air New Zealand flight and popped up to Japan for nine days. I keep my air travel to a minimum now, but I do fly to stay in touch with family and to support our sons in their sporting ... keep reading
Written by Gord Stewart this week, about Design, Transport, Travel, waste
Working closely with project partners including Auckland and Christchurch Airports, Victoria University, and Massey University, OCS have developed a comprehensive Toolkit encomopassing a strategic and systematic approach to assessing, designing, implementing and managing waste minimisation plans. The Launch will include a ‘Trailblazer’ discussion to uncover the current barriers and solutions ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Events, Industry & Business, Recycling, waste (1 comment)
The world wastes 1.3 billion tons of food annually—a third of all the food that’s produced—according to a report published last week by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This waste not only results in major economic loss, but also causes significant harm to ... keep reading
Written by Worldwatch Institute last month, about Food, waste
Food waste costs the world's economy some $750bn (£470bn) a year, and is "wreaking significant harm" on natural resources, according to a new report. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has estimated some of the natural and fiscal impacts of food waste globally. Among the key findings are the ... keep reading
Eighteenth-century philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau enlightened us with the likes of: “The world is always taken by surprise by any new example of commonsense”. Well ahead of his time, Rousseau could easily have been thinking about container deposit legislation when he penned that one. Container deposit legislation (or CDL for ... keep reading
Written by Gord Stewart last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Recycling, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Sustainability, waste
There’s nothing defensible about shark finning. It’s the marine equivalent of the poachers who kill rhinos to hack off their horns or kill elephants to hack off their tusks. It’s not dissimilar to killing bears or tigers for spurious ‘traditional’ cures either. But it happens out at ... keep reading
Written by Willie Mackenzie , Greenpeace last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Environment & Wildlife, waste
This is an amazing little video. See what you make of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGabrorRS8 keep reading
Written by Celsias in August, about Innovation, Intellectual Property, waste
Regulations on the approved level of lead exposure for workers in the U.S. have not been updated since 1978 and permit blood lead concentrations that are four to 12 times higher than the concentrations that have been linked to elevated blood pressure, among other problems. An investigative column in ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August, about Children and Families, Health, waste
Mayor Bloomberg of New York has unveiled a new public education campaign to motivate New Yorkers to recycle as much as possible. The campaign tag line is Recycle Everything. As the city’s recycling program receives its largest expansion in 25 years, a campaign featuring a collage of key recyclable ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Innovation, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, waste
As municipal food composting programs spread across North America and Europe, no city faces a more daunting task than New York. Its Department of Sanitation collects more than 10,000 tons of trash every day, and another 1,700 tons of recyclable materials. A large portion of that waste, though ... keep reading
Written by e360 Yale in August, about Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Food, Infrastructure, Innovation, waste
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A FISCHE° project in Mexico City, Oaxaca, Mexico 
Sociedades Del Futuro aims to work with leading social change agencies to train 180 young Mexican change makers to facilitate ... more »
