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We have more than enough, and so we waste
This post is part of my bite-size series on food waste, for UNEP/FAO World Environment Day 2013 Reduce your foodprint Think.Eat.Save campaign. Re-published, for greater awareness, on Living Green...
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Waste management aids environmental management
Final post in the series on food waste, for UNEP/FAO World Environment Day 2013 Reduce your foodprint Think.Eat.Save campaign. Re-published, for greater awareness, on Living Green Magazine. Reducing...
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How an ivory trade ban resulted in more elephant poaching
This post is in time for the CITES Conference of the Parties that commenced in Bangkok this week, convened to discuss wildlife crime. I decided to re-post this NGM feature that really jolted me, as...
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Veganism and the Environment by the Numbers
Environmentally, meat, amazingly, causes more emissions than all the transportation combined. Beef production. Uses a 100 times. The water. Than. All. The vegetables. Grown. The society is eating...
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March 20: Meat Free Day
This may sound familiar, but let’s recap: vegetarian, whole unprocessed food is the healthiest for all people, and our planet! It is nutritious, practical, and yes, it is the most sustainable option....
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Hug a tree, it’s International Forest Day
I wrote this article for Living Green Magazine. Scroll down to the bottom for a comprehensive infograph on deforestation and GHG emissions. Forests are rich ecosystems and significant pools of...
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The planet is thirsty! Mar 22: World Water Day
I wrote this article for Living Green Mag. Scroll to the bottom for an amazing Save Water! infograph. Clean water is the simplest and most urgent need for our planet and its growing population. World...
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…from Conspicuous to Conscious Consumption
UNEP/ Treehugger’s World Environment Day campaign is already under way, and I made it to top 10. The winner, determined by voting, is going to Mongolia to cover the WED Conference on June 5th. Please...
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The choices we make
I wrote this article as a sequel to my entry for UNEP/Treehugger World Environment Day Campaign, and it’s also been published on Living Green Mag. . . . In recent years there have been louder and wider...
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“..you are not your f!@* khakis”
“You are not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your f’n khakis” (Palanhiuk. Fight Club) Why do...
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I shop, therefore I am a product myself
Here’s an idea: brands should pay us to wear their clothes because we are walking advertisements: GAP across a chest, JUICY across a butt, a swish on a backpack, a puma on a foot – they are all free...
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Consumers of the World, Unite!
There are more and more collaborative and shared consumption projects in North America and the EU, and more people embrace them, or, at least, are curious about them. And some examples are really...
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“you’re a minimalist? what does that even mean?”
| Last post in the anti-consumerism WED sequence | photo © Zhare Martinovic Remember Ryan Bingham’s “How heavy is your backpack” lectures in Up in the Air (2009)? He says: How much does your life...
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expat life: the Venice that Venetians keep for themselves
This article I wrote a while ago was just picked up by Escape from America magazine. Click the link for the full read. photo © Vladimir Vujovic Many labels come to mind when I think of Venice: magical,...
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Malaria: raising awareness about prevention, treatment, R&D
The article was inspired by the Swiss Malaria Group Photo Contest, and has been published on Photodox. Photos, entered in the contest, are by Goran Jovic [http://goran-jovic.com] from his trip to...
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Today is a good day, it’s Earth Day. Celebrate~
“Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it.” Today is a good day, it’s Earth Day....
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Anatomy of impulsiveness
It’s always really exciting when you can do something on a whim, especially if that whim is happening somewhere else there is an idea of hope, some kind of abstraction, something illusory.. can you...
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an intimate illusion
nuevas experiencias nuevas perspectivas nuevas percepciones I clear my mind, and it’s almost a meditation. It’s almost a hypnosis I’ve surrendered to the present. And it’s so intimate, it’s almost.....
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The time for a Revolution is now
The world needs optimists. Optimists like Rob Stewart: writer, director and narrator of the new documentary Revolution about the state of the world’s environmental health. Revolution premiered at the...
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simpleasure
when awesome, life is simple Costa Rica. Puero Viejo de Talamanca series some photos by the Flower Power Sustainable Trips gang Filed under: travel Tagged: experiences, inspiration, lifestyle, nature,...
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