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Cynthia TM

2 days ago
4 min

Fashion and living that's environmentally aware.

And the category is: Fabulous and environmentally aware. Looking good on a budget and a dying planet. I may have mentioned it quite a few times in my other works, this burning passion I have for shiny pretty new things. When my salary hits my account I go into hyper stylist mode and the wings of capitalism carry me to the mall. And I cannot lie, new clothes, shoes, tech and pretty jewels make me very very happy. Maybe it’s some psychological gratification, I don’t know. When

Lessons to Learn from Singapore’s Sustainable Economy

Vesna Zubkova

6 days ago
9 min

Lessons to Learn from Singapore’s Sustainable Economy

Singapore is one of the world’s most sustainable nations. Consequently, I believe it can serve as a basis or prototype for a future global environmentally-sound economy. This publication is a continuation of my recent article, which addressed how ‘green’ technologies and job creation can help us build a future global economy that will be based on sustainable production and infrastructure. Today, my aim is to examine the unique aspects to Singapore’s sustainability and present

Sustainable Living 9 - How to Design a Regenerative Economy

Devan Reid Musser

Apr 19
3 min

Sustainable Living 9 - How to Design a Regenerative Economy

For the last two segments of this series, I want to look at a model of a sustainable economy and finally at global, planetary sustainability. I hope you’ve enjoyed this journey - I’ve certainly learned a lot. Although sustainability still feels like a huge, complex topic, I now have some concrete steps to take in my own life and a framework to think about life in general. We’ve made it the whole way from individual purchasing decisions, through manufacturing systems, commu

Homo Plasticus: A Brief History of Plastic and How it Came to Define Humanity (part 2)

Vesna Zubkova

Apr 12
6 min

Homo Plasticus: A Brief History of Plastic and How it Came to Define Humanity (part 2)

As a material, plastic is generally viewed from a negative standpoint: as a catalyst for the environmental crisis and as a threat to ocean cleanliness, marine life, plant and animal species, and even human health. Yet in the first part of this article series, I argued that plastic has actually played a crucial role in the development of the modern world by allowing the mass production of vital commercial goods, increasing accessibility to medical equipment, facilitating the d

Sustainable Living 3: How Should We Get around?

Devan Reid Musser

Jan 14
4 min

Sustainable Living 3: How Should We Get around?

Now that we’ve looked at what we eat and wear, the next most important piece is how we get from place to place. Transportation accounts for about a quarter of global CO2 emissions and is growing fast. The need and the desire to get from place to place occupies a central place in our lives. As things ground to a halt in the pandemic, I was struck by the contrast to our normal state of near-continual motion. For some, the additional stillness of the pandemic is a boon — and

Devan Reid Musser

Jan 4
3 min

Sustainable Living 2: What We Wear

We looked last time at how making changes in the foods we eat can have a huge impact on how sustainable our lifestyle is. After food, the second most important area of our lifestyle may be the clothes we wear. As the UN’s ActNow fashion initiative and the Fashion For Good organization, the current methods for producing clothing simply are not sustainable. Again, as consumers, we have great power to change our habits and force producers to do the same. How bad is it? Accord

Sustainable Living: How do we consume sustainably? Part 1: Food and Diet

Devan Reid Musser

Dec 31, 2021
3 min

Sustainable Living: How do we consume sustainably? Part 1: Food and Diet

A sustainable lifestyle begins with the things we consume. What we buy determines what is grown, harvested, produced, packaged, shipped and stored. We’ll look at the production side later, but we hold great power as consumers to dictate the types of products that are brought to market. If we start making purchasing decisions based on sustainability, we take a big step towards creating something sustainable. We will look at major categories of spending in turn, starting wit

Tessa Schroenn

Dec 17, 2021
5 min

What does the environment really need?

How often have we all been told that we need to stop using plastic straws, recycle more, go vegan, and so on but how much of an effect are these choices actually having on saving our environment? There are so many instances that I can think of where I have accidentally forgotten my reusable coffee cup at home or have bought a product with unnecessary plastic on it and then felt immensely guilty because I am adding to the environmental problems. I'm sure I'm not the only one w

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