The VG Daily: 005 - Plastic Recycling is a Myth
After my discussion yesterday on A Plastic Ocean, I decided to continue the plastics discussion with a talk about why plastic recycling is really a myth.
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Cars aren’t freedom. They’re a cage.
In 1974, an Austrian philosopher named Ivan Illich sat down and did the math on the American car. He added up everything — the driving, the parking, the hours spent earning money to pay for the thing, the gas, the insurance, the registration, the repairs. All of it. He came up
TSL: SFN - A Better World Is Possible w/ Meera Subramanian
Meera Subramanian is an award-winning environmental journalist with over two decades of experience writing about the natural world and climate crisis. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Nature, and Orion, where she's a contributing editor. Her first book, A River Runs
You Can't Save The Planet: Own Your Share Instead
There's an elephant in the room when it comes to sustainable living that we all feel but rarely say out loud: shame. Not just guilt about flying, or recycling wrong, or buying something you didn't need. Deeper than that. The quiet, nagging feeling that it doesn&
TSL: SFN - The Return of the Oystercatcher w/ Scott Weidensaul
Scott Weidensaul is a writer and researcher specializing in birds and bird migration, and the author of nearly thirty books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Living on the Wind and the New York Times bestseller A World on the Wing. He joins us today to talk about his latest, The