Summer 2021
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The Solving Plastic Issue
In Depth
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Introduction: The Solving Plastic Issue
In this issue we explore the history of plastic, its global impacts, and some of the most inspiring solutions we鈥檝e come across.
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Plastic World or Plastic-Free World?
The plastic crisis is tied not only to ecological destruction, but also drives systemic injustice. With plastic鈥檚 fall, will we rise?
Erica Cirino
Don鈥檛 Let Consumerism Co-opt the Zero-Waste Concept
The movement began as anti-consumerist. Yet now there are marketing ploys, feelings of inadequacy, and misplaced responsibility.
Alden Wicker
Should I Wear Plants or Plastic?
Textiles are the second largest source of plastic waste.
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
What Comes After This Plastic-Filled Pandemic?
A new generation of medical professionals is tasked with undoing decades of hospitals鈥� easy reliance on single-use plastic.
Jaime Kaiser
One of the World鈥檚 Biggest Cities Outlawed Single-Use Plastic
Mexico City鈥檚 22 million people discovered change is not that simple.
Jos茅 Luis Granados Ceja
What to Do With Piles of Plastic Waste?
Other countries get creative.
Breanna Draxler & Madalitso Wills Kateta & Natasha Chassagne & Tonderayi Mukeredzi
The Fallacy of Our Carbon Footprint
Big Oil says citizens should do more to stop climate change.
Emma Pattee
View From a Tiny Deep-Sea Diver
I hope to inspire people to want to change, to cut off their plastic usage little by little.
Ravi Koranga
Solutions We Love
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Indigenous Foodways
Wildflower Apothecary Recipes
Meet seven deserving medicinal wildflowers to invite into your world.
Valerie Segrest
Small Works
How to Get Rid of Throwaway Culture
Waste is built into modern culture. But it doesn鈥檛 have to be this way.
Sarah Lazarovic
People We Love
Closing the Digital Divide
How communities are addressing the digital divide equitably and quickly.
Isabella Garcia
Culture Shift
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Books+Film+Music
Tough Love for Mediocre White Guys
Getting White men to give up dominance is a challenge.
Robert Jensen
Books+Film+Music
Why Are We Expected to Love Our Jobs?
For decades, Americans have been told they should love their jobs. But is this a healthy relationship?
Alex Gallo-Brown
Books+Film+Music
Survival as Transformative Justice: 鈥淟ive and Work and Be Free and Heal鈥�
Transformative Justice is not just replacing the cops. It鈥檚 a completely different worldview.
adrienne maree brown & Autumn Brown
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Making the Connection
