Minasuk/ April 7, 2018/ Uncategorized

Bans on Plastic Straws in Restaurants Expand to More Cities | New York Times | March 2018 The latest is Malibu, Calif. Before that came Seattle; Davis and San Luis Obispo, Calif.; and Miami Beach and Fort Myers, Fla.  They’re all cities that have banned or limited the use of plastic straws in restaurants.

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Bans on Plastic Straws in Restaurants Expand to More Cities | New York Times | March 2018 The latest is Malibu, Calif. Before that came Seattle; Davis and San Luis Obispo, Calif.; and Miami Beach and Fort Myers, Fla.  They’re all cities that have banned or limited the use of plastic straws in restaurants.

Minasuk/ September 30, 2015/ Uncategorized

12 Horrifying Photos of the Tech Industry Apple Never Wants You to See | U.S. Uncut | September 2015 As the American public continues to depend more on digital technology to run society, the US tech industry is booming. New gadgets are flooding the market each year, and the top tech companies — Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM, HP, and Cisco,

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Minasuk/ April 25, 2015/ Uncategorized

When Did Humans Start Shaping Earth’s Fate? An Epoch Debate | NPR | April 2015 Some scientists suggest calling the era we live in the Anthropocene, to denote the time when humans came to dominate Earth’s fate. But did it start with farming, the atom bomb or another event?

Minasuk/ April 25, 2015/ Uncategorized

The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust | BBC | April 2015 Hidden in an unknown corner of China is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for smartphones, gadgets and green tech, discovers Tim Maughan. “It feels like hell on Earth. Welcome to Baotou, the largest industrial city in Inner Mongolia. I’m here with a group

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Minasuk/ March 14, 2015/ Uncategorized

Mass Deaths in Americas Start New CO2 Epoch | Scientific American | March 2015 A new proposal pegs the start of the Anthropocene to the little ice age and the Columbian Exchange. 1610 should be considered the start date of a new, proposed geologic epoch—the Anthropocene, or recent age of humanity—according to the authors of a new study published in

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Minasuk/ October 5, 2014/ Uncategorized

The Life of a Plastic Fork | The L Magazine | April 2010 How one little fork is destroying the planet.

Minasuk/ October 2, 2014/ Uncategorized

The other side of paradise: Incredible photos show mountains of plastic bottles washed up on idyllic honeymoon islands in Maldives | Daily Mail | September 2014 Award-winning filmmaker Alison Teal, 27, from Hawaii, visited Thilafushi – or Trash Island – an artificial island created as a municipal landfill situated to the west of Malé.