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Plastic

1907: Plastic was invented 1933: Polyethylene was created (shopping bags, food packaging, bottles) 1970: Annual plastic production is 35m tonnes 2013: 215k tonnes of plastic is floating in the ocean (excludes plastics at depth). One third of this has accumulated…

Saving the biosphere must be seen as a moral enterprise and the most urgent task in human existence if we want to exist for the next millennia. Our species has to quickly decide if our dominant decision-making forces should be…

Don’t Look Up (2021)

“I’ll believe it when I see it” …The mentality preventing humanity from addressing crises. Or perhaps that’s the excuse. What if in reality we have become exclusively self-serving, while still craving society’s acceptance.

Making Cement Greener

Concrete is one of the most used commodities in the world, second only to water, and among the most polluting. The industry accounts for about 2.6bn tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, or about 6 per cent of global emissions.…

Learn CS

Tech is wonderful. What’s more wonderful is the abundance of free resources to learn about tech, to then create your own tech.

Reddit Gems

Your perception is your reality. This concept is the fundamental premise behind living a happy, fulfilled life.  The way you perceive yourself, the world, and the future will always influence what comes next for you in life. The term perception…

Contraction

Globalisation sought to make our world larger but ultimately made it smaller: a tsunami of Western certainty – and its franchised way of living – further suffocating our ability to think laterally. Cultures, each with their own complex history of…