Something new I learned this past week: nurdles and tire dust. Nurdles sound like some sort of 1970s sugar-laden gooey candy that sticks in your teeth. But nurdles are a completely unregulated source of plastic pollution. A nurdle is a tiny bead of pure plastic, the building block of most things plastic. It is easy …
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This has been a really fucked up couple of weeks. There is the heatwave in India and Pakistan that no one in the mainstream media is talking about, and if they do, it’s mentioned like a verbal shrug, implying that it doesn’t really matter because it’s over there, and climate change is a factor but …
Hello Friends. Happy belated Earth Day! Yeah, I know, every day is Earth Day, and it seems silly to have a designated day. But, I’m increasingly of the belief that special days are good to have for celebrations and to mark occasions or call attention to something. And since in our current world flavor, Earth …
As if a human pandemic isn't enough to worry about, now we have to worry about an outbreak of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). I've been getting regular updates from the Twin Cities chicken keeping list I am on since the outbreak began on the east coast a couple months ago. It made it …
The other day Bill McKibben posted an essay on his blog titled Inertia is a problem too in which he says: But there’s another force at work alongside Interest [Big Oil, etc.,], and that’s Inertia, defined as the force that has kept you from, say, ever cleaning the coil on the bottom of your fridge, …
