Glenn Goodwin
Design Director

A personal TV series project

PLASTIC is a material so ubiquitous that we might call our age the Plasticine. This unfortunately durable form of fossil fuel breaks down into #microparticles that infiltrate and poison our water, our soils, and our bodies. Wildlife mistake plastic for food, babies chew on toys laden with chemicals. Some of it gets burned, polluting the air. Only 9% percent of it gets recycled. Plastic overwhelmingly impacts low income communities around the world. The less we make, the less we use, the better for everyone, especially for fence line communities who suffer from the toxic effects of its production and disposal. Dianna Cohen, co-founder and CEO of #PlasticPollutionCoalition, shows us how to get plastic out of our lives. From packaging to toothpaste, there are alternatives. We can make a dent in the problem by refusing single use plastic. We can carry our own bags, cups and containers. We can wash and reuse glass containers and buy plastic-free produce from farmers’ and other markets. We can buy from companies who use #BiodegradablePackaging. Most importantly, we can support local legislation and the federal Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act. https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/pollution-act/ https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/ Other sites to help you break free from plastic: https://liveseasoned.com/34-alternatives-disposable-plastic-products/ https://www.theceomagazine.com/business/innovation-technology/plastic-alternatives/ https://environmentalpaper.org/solving-packaging/what-really-works/ Hosted by Dale Walkonen For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.

This is a demonstration video on what is happening on our heating world and what MEER's solution could be

The dream of endless bounty is over. We must save as much of Nature as is still possible and end the wealth-concentrating system that is destroying it. Wes Jackson, in his no-nonsense fashion, explains how our ecological collapse began with #agriculture, when we started to remove carbon from the soil to grow crops, then from the forests to build ships, and finally from the deep ground to build civilizations. Now we need to power down as we face irreversible changes - inconvenient, to say the least. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen envision a transition - to fewer and less - to life without dense energy, with less destructive systems of agriculture. They chart a collective, realistic path for humanity - not only to survive, but also to emerge on the other side with a renewed appreciation of the larger living world, recognizing that the rediscovery of Nature, and of human connection is the greatest renaissance of all. Their book, An Inconvenient #Apocalypse, Environmental Collapse, #Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity will be published by The University of Notre Dame Press in the fall of 2022 and will be available both in paper and in digital format. For more information on the state of our planet visit FacingFuture.Earth/library

We used to consider #Antarctica as a stable place, but recent heat waves, with temperatures up to 70 degrees centigrade above normal, combined with atmospheric rivers, which increase both warmth and moisture, are threatening the stability of the continent, and challenging climate models. Because of these phenomena, global sea level rise will likely be far higher than any of the models have so far predicted. #PaulBeckwith explains to host Dale Walkonen that, as ice shelves, like Larsen A, B, and now C melt and fall into the ocean, they cease to hold back the ice sheets that lie on top of the land mass. If these sheets collapse as well, many coastal cities, unable to hold back the ocean, will be inundated with sea water. This loss of life and land can only be mitigated if #ClimateChange is seriously addressed within this decade. For more information on the state of our planet visit FacingFuture.Earth/library

#Hemp is an incredibly versatile plant. Peter Miles tells us that we can make paper from fast growing hemp, instead of cutting trees, replace concrete, a major source of greenhouse gases, and make biodegradable plastics and textiles to help solve the serious problem of toxic microfibers and particles in the oceans, which poison the fish, and the people who eat them. Hemp can be eaten and is a good source of protein. The hemp plant itself can restore depleted and even radioactive soils. Both the plant and the concrete sequester carbon. What’s not to like? In Zimbabwe, without vested interests interfering, Peter’s company, eHemp.House, aims to help the country develop a decarbonized industrial base with hemp pellet fuel and local biodiesel for farm machinery. He hopes to spread to other African countries where hemp grows readily and can help bolster sustainable and better #lifestyles. For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library