This category includes all articles and opinion pieces about environmental issues that entail: natural disasters; climate change and environmental policies; environmental exploitation and degradation; declining biodiversity issues; air, water and soil pollution; nuclear and energy issues; waste management and related issues.
After my last article came out seeming rash and unsubstantiated, I knew I needed to write another. As such, for two things I need to apologise. Firstly, that I built the article solely on my knowledge of recycling from personal research and research relating to my masters, so this time I shall go into more… Read More Recycling part 2: Not Good Enough
This is not an article about the results the leading parties or understanding any of that, we have a lot of staff, which is much more indicated for that as they know much more about it. What I want to talk about is the repetition of a spiritual journey I’ve had before. I am a… Read More Post-EuroElections: Nothing Much about Environment
When looking at what happens once you put a product in the recycle bin, the road seems quite dire. First (and in my opinion worst) of all, it’s an admission that the thing you’re throwing away is useless to you from that day on. You don’t want it near you; you don’t even want it… Read More Recycling is Not Good
On 11 March 2011, the massive earthquake and tsunamis that hit various areas of Japan – causing a nuclear meltdown in some parts of the country – bent the population on its knees and brought the nation’s nuclear program to an end. Currently, the new government is seriously considering to slowly reinstate it, at the order of the… Read More Japan On the Way to Reinstate Nuclear Program: No Room for Mistakes
Every time you go on a longer trip outside of the city, you’ll see trucks full of stuff for us to consume or stuff that has already been consumed. This is the most apparent visual for logistics, the transportation of goods all across countries, oceans and continents to trade goods between countries, companies and people.… Read More The End of Logistics on the basis of the Fast-Fashion Industry and 3d Printing
An environmentalist, as stereotyped by people and business, is that no-bullshit, no-concession environmental proponent who won’t let you get away with anything and for whom whatever you do is never enough. Further to that, environmentalists don’t trust companies or individuals who start making a move in the right direction, labelling it as not enough or,… Read More Environmental Stereotypes: Myth or Reality?
The perspective on the revolutionary power of climate change is provided by the Canadian journalist Naomi Klein and hes article on “How science is telling us all to revolt” published in New Statesman, October 29, 2013. Klein became famous worldwide thanks to “No Logo”, the book manifesto of an anti-globalization movement that was born in… Read More Is There Still Time to Start a Revolution to End the Extreme Consequences of Global Warming?
The Great Barrier Reef will suffer irreparable damage by 2030 unless radical action is taken to reduce carbon emissions and the impact of industrialization, a report compiled by WWF has warned. Part of this year’s Earth Hour Initiative, the report – entitled Lights Out For The Reef – warns that port expansion projects and further… Read More “Game Over” for the Great Barrier Reef?
The circular economy is a concept that is still largely unknown under this term and as it’s been something I’ve been trying to work within , mainly because I aspire to work under those principles when I own my own company one day, I will help spread it. As such I will explain what it… Read More The Circular Economy
I am a student of Environmental Economics. When I tell people this, I can almost see them conjuring images of natural beauty being destroyed and me fighting to protect it with tooth and nail. That is not me; I am not an activist, nor a protectionist nor conservationist. I believe that all those things are… Read More Reshaping Cities
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