A delightfully dark vintage alphabet book from mid-century illustrator Edward Gorey, the Tim Burton of his day.
Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what becomes of our waste. In Waste Away, Joshua O. Reno reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill. Based on the author's fieldwork as a common laborer at a large, transnational landfill on the outskirts of Detroit, the book argues that waste management helps our possessions and dwellings to last by removing the transient materials they shed and sending them elsewhere. Ethnography conducted with waste workers shows how they conceal and contain other people's wastes, all while negotiating the filth of their occupation, holding on to middle-class aspirations, and occasionally scavenging worthwhile stuff from the trash. Waste Away also traces the circumstances that led one community to host two landfills and made Michigan a leading importer of foreign waste. Focusing on local activists opposed to the transnational waste trade with Canada, the book's ethnography analyzes their attempts to politicize the removal of waste out of sight that many take for granted. Documenting these different ways of relating to the management of North American rubbish, Waste Away demonstrates how the landfills we create remake us in turn, often behind our backs and beneath our notice.
Fukushima is Japan's and the world’s radiation nightmare that will not go away in our lifetimes nor our children’s or grandchildren’s.
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You deserve a break today, so take one!
Every year, 23 million truckloads of food go straight into the waste bin, according to the UN.
A large collection of meme and pics we know you can't resist looking at. And when you're done with these, we got more memes up our sleeves.
A large collection of meme and pics we know you can't resist looking at. And when you're done with these, we got more memes up our sleeves.
A large collection of meme and pics we know you can't resist looking at. And when you're done with these, we got more memes up our sleeves.
Do you feel like you have wasted your life and accomplished nothing? Learn how God can restore your wasted years and give you a new purpose, direction, and destiny.
LGBTQ+ Transitioning Is Not Easy! But Seeing You this Happy - IS! 5 x 7 Inches Card reads inside: Keep Going! You've Got This! Comes complete with a posting cover attached and sealable strip for securing. Peels away on receipt. No Separate Envelope Means no Excess Packaging And No Waste
A Jean de la Fontaine fable helped the noisome cicada bug burrow its way into Provençal hearts.
. . . and telegraphed Stephen and Jane Hawking’s great love story through costume design.
Send your question to Umbra! Q. Dear Umbra, Do you have a reliable source/figure for the total amount of food wasted by Americans? I read somewhere that up to 40 percent of the food we buy may be thrown away. That means people spend an additional 66 percent on food products they don’t/can’t actually consume. […]
“Night soil” refers to solid human excrement that is transported by night from a cess pool or privy. Before the widespread use of sewage treatments or septic systems, there were men who does the mucking out of cess pools and transport the waste away from urban centers.
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Zero Waste Initiative shop helps you to find and shop for the best reusable, eco-friendly, natural, organic, and plastic or waste-free products so you can start reducing your waste footprint. We plan one tree for every product sold
You may not realize it, but your body contains a super highway. It’s the system of arteries and veins that carry blood to all your organs and tissues. It carries waste away too. When your circulation system is working well, all of your cells get the nutrients and oxygen that they need and the system functions properly. But when the process slows down or gets blocked, problems can develop. In case it's been awhile since your last biology class: The circulatory system is made up the heart, the lungs and the arteries. It's intricate to say the least. In fact, if
A large collection of meme and pics we know you can't resist looking at. And when you're done with these, we got more memes up our sleeves.
In eighteenth century Japan, human excrement played a vital role in agriculture. Can similar solutions help manage waste today?
Read on for some of the ways to turn food "trash" into food "treasure"!
11 Frugal Ways to Use Kitchen Scraps Save money, reduce food waste and and improve everything from your soil to your gut health with this list of 11 frugal…
Instead of having to curate your own gallery wall let me! A seven image bundle including a skull being held out, an aerial view of a spiral staircase, multiple encyclopedias, a pretty green lace, Jean-Honore Fragonards' Fountain of Love, and a castle hallway. A dark bundle that brings to mind studying late into the night in old libraries, wandering castles, and wasting away days in museums. This is a digital download but is a snap to print! You can use your office printer at home, go to your local printing shop, or (my favorite) go to Shutterfly.com and use their printing service. Using this download you can get a physical print for as low as 18 cents! Downloadable PNG* for immediate printing. The prints are displayed as 6x4 (4), 4x6, 4x5, and 4x4 but print up to 12x8 (4), 8x12, 8x10 and 8x8 respectively. DIGITAL COPIES ONLY; NO PHYSICAL PRINT WILL SHIP
We are being renewed day by day, for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
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Titled Plastic Ocean in honor of Charlie Moore's book The traveling art show using plastics collected from the open-ocean and mid-ocean islands started out as just a simple idea. Take the image of the Japanese art, The Great Wave of Kanagawa, and add the plastics I've collected from my research to illustrate what is now a very different ocean than what Katsushika Hokusai saw when he created his art less than 200 years ago. Not a very long time in planet years for humans to have physically change the composition of the sea. But we have, and hence, the purpose of the art show. This image launched the proposal to our UNCW campus art gallery that was accepted and then morphed into 25' of canvases. That was in 2011when it was displayed for a month in the Boseman Gallery. While I was taking the exhibit down, the curator asked what I was going to do with it. Without really thinking about it, I said, "I would like to take it around the country, you know, like the Memorial Aids Quilt." Even I was shocked to hear that came out of my mouth. I hadn't really thought about it, but after that, I couldn't stop thinking about it. We just lacked the means necessary to make it happen. It took two years, but the answer came after receiving an international grant from Project Aware. Our oceans though vast and furious, have become increasingly vulnerable to human impacts. What many of us do not realize, nor did I until I started this research, is that half of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, fish is vital to many cultures for food as a main source of protein, and the health of that food chain relies on the health of the entire ecosystem, not just a select few. And while we are fishing out billions of pounds of fish each year unsustainably, we are also competing with plastics that kill marine life from the apex predator down to the base at the microscopic level. Fascinating that something humans started mass producing less than 100 years ago could be so proliferating. But it is not completely hopeless. Thanks to Project Aware, actions around the world are being taken to improve these conditions in our oceans. People in Fiji, Thailand, South Africa, and Peru all received funding from Project Aware that focus on marine life protection, like sharks and rays, to ocean cleanup projects both above and below the sea, and Plastic Ocean Project, covering the US bringing awareness to both the problems and solutions to plastic pollution. Like Project Aware, Jack Johnson is also putting dollars behind action with his AllAtOnce.org campaign. The Jack Johnson Foundation recognizes that individual actions by millions adds up to global change. His foundation is matching donations to Plastic Ocean Project, Inc. (POP, Inc.) so every dollar donated is worth two that will supports our efforts to educate and motivate people to reduce their use of single use plastics an essential theme to the art exhibit, "What Goes Around, Come Around." Bellamy Masion - 503 Market St. Wilmington, NC 28403 Awesome Project Aware and the Jack Johnson Foundation for paying it forward. By doing so our dance card for the traveling art exhibit is starting to fill up. Next weekend Sunday February 16, local friends of POP, Inc. can see the exhibit at the Bellamy Mansion downtown Wilmington from 1pm to 4pm. The event is free and open to the public. The irony of having our art exhibit at the mansion (a manmade structure that requires arguous effort to mantain and procure juxaposed with our plastic ocean trash that we cannot get rid of) makes for an interesting conversation. From there it travels to University of North Carolina February 22 to March 9th and will be on display for the Blue Heron Bowl (National Science Ocean Bowl) in Jordon Hall on March 1st, thank you Janelle Fleming for feature our art in this educational event. I will be there for Q and A at noon. Thanks to Barbara Prince, we will be touring New Jersey with day events from March 11th to March 13. (see below) with an extended stay at Rutger's University starting March 15th. More details to follow and please help keep the show on the road by donating to the Plastic Ocean Project,Inc. With every dollar donated, the Jack Johnson Fundraiser will match it up to $2,500. 11TH Tues afternoon 12:30 Johnson Elementary, Cherry Hill, NJ 12th Wednesday: 8:30 AM Urban Promise, Pennsauken 1:15Kingston School, Cherry Hill Evening: 7:00 PM Camden County Environmental Center, Cherry Hill 13th Thursday: 9:00 AM Haddon Heights, tentative 1:00 PM: VanSciver Elementary School Evening: 7:00 PM Scout Night/tentative Haddon Township Environmental Center But the art exhibit is only one small part of what POP, Inc. provides. Through our education program at UNCW, joint collaboration with toxicologists, oceanographers, marine scientists, and non-profits, we are gaining momentum. And that momentum would not be possible without the support and guidence from our president Paul Lorenzo and point contact Tricia Monteleone. POP, Inc has been morphing over the past five years and our team of visionaries believe, If we can walk on the moon, we can clean up the plastic ocean through outreach, technology, industry, and international leadership. We do not think small.
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These things are really showing their age.
A large collection of meme and pics we know you can't resist looking at. And when you're done with these, we got more memes up our sleeves.
A large collection of meme and pics we know you can't resist looking at. And when you're done with these, we got more memes up our sleeves.
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Holmesburg Prison (pictured) was shut down for good in 1995 but it has left a chilling legacy of violent riots, bloody killings and most shocking of all - the cruel experimentation on its inmates.
