Kate O’Neill
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Professor of global environmental governance and waste and discard studies, UC Berkeley
A very helpful guide to terms we hear a lot these days....
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Excited to read Decolonizing Environmentalism
@pkashwan.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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This time I got to talk about holiday decorations! (another helpful hint - hold on to your decoration donations till October - Goodwill et al don't want to store them for the year for us!)
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How to make your home merry and bright in an environmentally friendly way
Metallic tinsel, glittery ornaments, plastic holly that really stays green forever – they look good on your Christmas tree, holiday table, mantel or front door. They’re not such a good look for the pl...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-to-make-your-home-merry-and-bright-in-an-environmentally-friendly-way
about 1 year ago
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Life Cycle Analysis of edible coffee cups: as long as they are delicious!
#nosingleuse
#plastics
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A tasty solution to packaging waste? Life cycle assessment of edible coffee cups
Edible cups have been proposed as a solution to littering and plastic pollution arising from disposal of 500 billion beverage cups each year. We appli…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344923004548?pes=vor&utm_source=wiley&getft_integrator=wiley
about 1 year ago
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Science Fiction in the Anthropocene | Annual Reviews
This article catalogs major recent trends in ecological science fiction (sf), focused primarily on sf published after the completion of N.K. Jemisin's paradigm-setting Broken Earth trilogy in 201...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-environ-120622-120311
about 1 year ago
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New set of human rights principles aims to end displacement and abuse of Indigenous people through ‘fortress conservation’
Private conservation groups channel huge sums of money to parks and protected areas around the world, but often have failed to protect basic rights of Indigenous people living on those lands.
https://theconversation.com/new-set-of-human-rights-principles-aims-to-end-displacement-and-abuse-of-indigenous-people-through-fortress-conservation-242891?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20%20December%2010%202024%20-%203194832585&utm_content=Daily%20Newsletter%20%20December%2010%202024%20-%203194832585+CID_8a62ca011a0c5b962837995414369676&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=call%20on%20environmentalists%20to%20respect%20the%20rights%20of%20Indigenous%20people
about 1 year ago
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Crucial reading for students too
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about 1 year ago
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Preprint, just in time for
#INC5
of the
#UNEP
#plasticstreaty
#plastictreaty
negotiations, from
@moon-sc.bsky.social
and colleagues, on unpacking
#plastic
credits!
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Unpacking plastic credits: Challenges to effective and just global plastics governance
Amid growing concerns over plastic pollution and ongoing efforts to develop a global plastics treaty, this paper critically examines plastic credits as a compensatory measure for addressing plastic po...
https://zenodo.org/records/14132201
over 1 year ago
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Part 2 on global waste from PBS Newshour
@pbsnews.bsky.social
: Textiles
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Ghana becomes dumping ground for the world's unwanted used clothes
An estimated 20 million people are thought to earn their livelihoods in the global waste industry by collecting, disposing, repairing or repurposing a wide range of materials and products. However, th...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ghana-becomes-dumping-ground-for-the-worlds-unwanted-used-clothes
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I was interviewed for this piece on PBS Newshour, on the trade in discarded electronics:
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How 'donations' from the West are inundating Ghana with toxic waste
When Americans no longer want a car, laptop or clothes, where do some of those goods go? Most end up in the Global South, where millions of people depend on repairing, dismantling or selling them for ...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-donations-from-the-west-are-inundating-ghana-with-toxic-waste
over 1 year ago
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For COP attendance nerds...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Who’s Attending COP29, the International Climate Summit?
The U.N.’s annual climate conference has swelled over three decades, with governments, fossil fuel interests and others vying for influence.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/13/climate/cop-climate-summit-attendance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z04.jR4K.353L1Xb1NSsU&smid=url-share
over 1 year ago
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Welcome to BlueSky everyone - really good to see new folks who aren't 'bots (!!). In the meantime, I am taking suggestions for a new grad course syllabus on Waste & Society
#discardstudies
#wastestudies
over 1 year ago
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Recycling Class, by Manisha Anantharaman, just out from
@mitpress.bsky.social
about 2 years ago
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