Biking our way around is a pleasant and healthy way to navigate the city and country, with an excellent ecological footprint, of course. Encouraging cycling seems to be something everybody can agree upon. And amusingly, this is also true for re-cycling
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In 1957, Disney’s Tomorrowland opened up a new attraction: The Plastic Home of the Future. 10 years later, when the futuristic living capsule was brought down, it would prove to be a symbol of the problems plastics would eventually create a couple of decades later.
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Endocrine disruptors are molecules that can hijack our endocrine system by mimicking natural hormones our body produces. Those hormones travel through our organs until they encounter a receptor to which they can bind.
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The man in the bright blue overall has dropped his large backpack at the side of the Dranse de Ferret, a tumultuous mountain torrent close to La Fouly, in canton Valais, Switzerland.
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Rain is pouring down in unprecedented quantities this summer over central Europe. Dense. Tropical. Excessive. Fueling the discussion about climate change, of course, and some chronic contradictory statements.
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I like to walk in the woods when it’s drizzling. It’s that great atmosphere: patches of low hanging clouds hiding the top of the hills, huge pines whose tops disappear in the sky, water droplets on every needle and every leaf of every tree.
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The problems are manifold: from production to distribution, from dyeing to washing, from marketing to end of life, from influence on the metabolism to the release of micro particles.
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I was doing some research the other day on the ecological footprint of various natural fibers used in the garment industry, when I stumbled upon an article mentioning the effects on climate change caused by the gases released during digestion of grass-feeding animals, such as sheep and other ruminants.
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