Blog Action Day 2008: Plastic Pollution & Poverty
Reuters: A rubbish collector carries his baby as he walks amid plastic waste at a garbage dump site in Guiyang, Guizhou province June 3, 2008. Today is Blog Action Day. Thousands of bloggers have...
View ArticleThe Dangers of PVC Plastic
The Center for Health, Environment, & Justice has released its Back to School Guide to PVC-Free School Supplies. It’s a free downloadable guide to all the products kids might need for school, from...
View ArticleLiving in the Age of Stupid or the Age of Compassion?
Monday began with me in a classroom in Benicia, teaching children about plastic, and ended in a cheesy piano bar in San Francisco’s Union Square. In between, a phenomenal global event. Sitting in a...
View ArticleEarth Day 2010 – Buying Green vs. Being Green
Will buying organic T-shirts and biodegradable bras save the planet? No! Reject greenwashing. Reducing consumption and simplifying our lives are the paths to true sustainability.
View ArticleBlogHer10 Conference Recap: Keeping It Real
BlogHer is about community, the power of women’s blogs and the promotion of women’s voices. It’s also about corporate sponsorship, commercialism, and the tradeoffs made to create a platform and...
View ArticlePlastic is a Social Justice Issue (Van Jones at TEDxGP2)
I’m back from the TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch conference and feeling refreshed. I’ve got many things to report about plastic toxicity, plastic and animals, plastics legislation, and even a new...
View ArticleWhat I Should Have Said to Melissa Harris-Perry: We Are the Albatross
This past Sunday, I had the honor to be a guest on MCNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry show. It was my very first live national appearance, so as you can imagine, I was just a little concerned with getting...
View ArticleGet a Bag and a Receipt: When Social and Environmental Justice Collide
What does the Trayvon Martin murder have to do with sea turtles choking on plastic bags or the toxicity of bisphenol-A? At first glance, not a whole lot. And it’s not the kind of news I would...
View ArticleWhat’s Plastic Got to Do with Clean Air?
If I asked you to list the problems with plastic, you might mention toxic chemicals like BPA or phthalates; or the fact that it doesn’t biodegrade; or that animals ingest it; or that there is a toxic...
View ArticleIt’s #BlogActionDay and My Smartphone May Be Violating Your #HumanRights
On Blog Action Day, bloggers around the world all post articles on a single topic. This year, the topic is human rights, and as I sit here typing (or Swyping) this post into my Android mobile phone,...
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