City Matters
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Honoring the Dead with Bread: Tots Sants & Panellets
Catalunya is steeped in history, culture and plenty of tasty gastronomic customs! One such example is the appearance of the delightful little marzipan “cookies” known as panellets which grace bakeries across the region in celebration of Tots Sants. Read more
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How House Plants Could Change How We Relate to the Natural World
Caring for house plants provides a tangible way of connecting with nature that is absent from an increasingly screen-based world. Read more
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Stuffed and Roasted–Why Food Waste is the Secret Ingredient in Climate Change
As with any move towards a zero-waste lifestyle, reducing food waste is about taking the long view. Read more
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Seals sit on marine debris on the beach. Photo courtesy of USFWS Pacific Region (CC BY-NC 2.0).
Up to 14 Million Tonnes of Microplastics Lie on the Seafloor
New research provides the first global estimate of microplastics on the seafloor, suggesting there’s a staggering 8-14 million tonnes of it. Read more
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Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter protestors clash in Springfield, Oregon. Photo by David Geitgey Sierralupe, June 22, 2020. (CC-BY-2.0)
Why Friendships Are Falling Apart over Politics
When one person believes the policies and politicians supported by another person are inherently evil or immoral, it’s difficult to maintain a friendship. Read more
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Refuge camp in Turkey. ©European Union 2016—European Parliament (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
New EU Migration Pact Driven by Political Compromise, Not Humanitarianism
The EU has revealed its long-awaited pact on migration and asylum. Brought forward by a week, the timing seems an attempt to pacify the outrage over the devastating fire at the Greek refugee camp Moria. Read more
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A pro-Trump rally in Washington DC. Photo by Ted Eytan, March 2017. (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Why Hard-Core Trump Supporters Ignore His Lies
The 20% or so of Americans who follow Trump no matter what are largely the forgotten, the ignored, the disrespected. Read more
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All polymers are, technologically, 100% recyclable.
Plastics Could Help Build a Sustainable Future—Here’s How
There is a consensus that plastics are an unsustainable material. And yes, plastics are certainly an enormous problem, but they don’t necessarily have to be. Read more
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We’re Using Microbes to Clean up Toxic Electronic Waste—Here’s How
If you were to stack up all the electronic waste produced annually around the world it would weigh as much as all the commercial aircrafts ever produced, or 5,000 Eiffel towers Read more
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An estimated 640,000 tonnes of lost and abandoned fishing gear enters the oceans annually. Photo courtesy of USFWS Pacific Region. (CC BY-NC 2.0)
How to Get Abandoned, Lost and Discarded "Ghost" Fishing Gear Out of the Ocean
Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear—often called ghost gear—can contribute up to 76% of all marine debris found during beach cleanups. Read more
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