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Tag: environment
Paper feet
Meet paperfeet, the world’s thinnest flexible sandal made from upcycled billboard art.
Brand biodiversity
the average cat in europe has a larger footprint than the average person in africa.
Mexican gulf bleed-out?
a massive collapse of the Gulf floor itself is in the making,” “fracturing and a complete bleed-out are already underway”. 2B barrels of oil could leak into the Gulf before the reservoir has fully depleted itself.
Terra preta
very dark, fertile anthropogenic soils found in the Amazon Basin. It owes its name to its very high charcoal content. 1000s of years after its creation it has been reported to regenerate itself at the rate of 1 centimeter per year.
EPA Fugitives
the thought process behind this.. “we are a federal agency. we need badges! and also mustaches. and lets have our own fugitives list!”
Hydro-Pharmacology
some of the streams, rivers, and groundwater in Patancheru, India, are really
“a soup of 21 different active pharmaceutical ingredients, used in generics for treatment of hypertension, heart disease, chronic liver ailments, depression, gonorrhea, ulcers and other ailments. Half of the drugs measured at the highest levels of pharmaceuticals ever detected in the environment.”
Privatising fisheries works
breaking up fishing grounds into small parcels gets rid of the tragedy of commons and leads to better protection
An ice age cometh
It is time to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age, similar to the one that lasted from 1100 to 1850.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 