A piece of plastic less than five millimetres across is a piece of microplastic and the average person is creating and worse, consuming, millions possibly billions of these pieces of plastic everyday. We don’t know the full list of health…
Did you know that every year people gather to celebrate World Environment Day? And that it has been going on since 1974 when it was first carried out in Spokane in the United States? But what is World Environment Day…
Food waste doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In a world where everyone has food security and where food production is not in itself wasteful we could all compost much of our food waste and use it to produce…
Gaia is another name for Mother Earth. The idea of a Gaia Principle was first proposed by the scientists Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock. The mainstream scientific community attacked them as charlatans and quacks but now their theories are widely…
If there’s anything that we love more on a Friday night after work than a cold glass of chardonnay, we’re not sure what it is. And it is wine that always brings corks to our minds. So, last time we…
Elizabeth Kolbert won a Pullitzer Prize for her book “The Sixth Extinction.” Now she returns for a deep look at the future humanity is creating for itself. She tours the planet to talk to biologists about what they’re observing and…
A holistic approach is the idea that a system should be seen as a whole entity rather than as a collection of individual parts. This idea has led to the concept of holism in human behavior, physical anthropology, and social…
Lynn Margulis was one of biology’s most colorful and accomplished individuals. She was one of the earliest proponents of the Gaia hypothesis and a trailblazer in Molecular biology. She attend the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools when she turned 15…