Name | Note |
sfbaywildlife.info | The website my son and I created. |
Circular Economy | Wikipedia |
Doughnut Economics | Powerful concept developed by Kate Raworth. I highly recommend reading Kate’s 2017 book, Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist. |
Mining Trash | Magazine article |
Building Material | BBC article about converting plastic waste to building materials. |
Rainforst Connection | Startup with technology for acoustic monitoring of forests |
Flash Forest | Drones for reforestation |
DroneSeed | Drones for reforestation |
Dronecoria | Drones for reforestation |
Dendra Systems | Drones for reforestation |
Solidia | Green concrete |
Darfur stove | Improved efficiency in cooking – reducing woodcutting for fuel |
Edible Cutlery | Reducing plastic waste |
ByBlock | Building material from plastic waste |
EcoBrick | Building material from plastic waste |
RePlast | Building material from plastic waste |
Gjenge Makers | Paving stones from plastic waste |
Ocean Cleanup | Boats to skim plastic waste from oceans and rivers |
Precious Plastics | Open source designs for local plastic recycling equipment |
3Devo | Commercial machine for recycling plastic into 3D printer filaments |
Filabot | Commercial machine for recycling plastic into raw material |
Story of Stuff | Animated movie about consumption-based culture |
Native | Site to purchase personal carbon offsets |
From 1968 speech by Robert Kennedy – one section about materialism
Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product – if we judge the United States of America by that – that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman’s rifle and Speck’s knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.