One of my biggest pet peeves is plastic waste. Every Wednesday I place my blue bin filled with recyclable plastics on the side of the curb, but I have no idea what happens after they are collected. It is a mystery. I suspect much of it goes into a landfill, which is...
For more than two decades, Ted Oakes has been producing natural history wildlife films for the BBC, including David Attenborough’s Life series. The Ottawa born, Oxford-educated zoologist and filmmaker strongly believes that, “protecting nature starts now”....
The circular economy is not a new idea. In 1987, the United Nations published the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, which called attention to the global issue of diminishing natural resources and introduced the concept...
After attending a talk on homelessness in Los Angeles six years ago, Rachel Sunday felt that she needed to help. “I wanted to do something,” she says, “but I didn’t know what.” Sunday, a resident of LA’s Westchester neighborhood, thought about it for a couple of...
It is hard enough to watch the horrors of war unfolding in a country that you have visited. It is even harder knowing that people you know are still there, dealing with the disruption and chaos of war. It had been more than eight years since I was last in contact with...
Imagine if Amazon’s mission was to restore the Amazon rainforest… that project would have been completed a decade ago… Seven years ago, I was on a hiking trip with my high school mate, Adam McCurdie, in Sri Lanka, just months after Sri Lanka’s civil war. We came...
