Innovation Led By Nature🌿 A Cool Stool🍄

IMAGINE A PLASTIC FREE FUTURE written by Alexis McCarthy CAN YOU HELP US GET THERE? 🛢️Most modern plastics are derived from fossil fuel-based chemicals like natural gas or petroleum^ 💉Vinyl chloride is an organochloride.It is also called vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) or chloroethene.This colorless compound is an important industrial chemical chiefly used to produce the polymer polyvinyl chloride (PVC). VCM is among the top twenty largest petrochemicals (petroleum-derived chemicals) in world production^ 🧠Vinyl chloride exposure is associated with an increased risk of a rare form of liver cancer (hepatic angiosarcoma), as well as primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), brain and lung cancers, lymphoma, and leukemia+ 💡Solutions to plastic pollution exist 🗳️Enact and enforce healthy, just policies 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Shift societal values and cultures 🏦Improve business practices

UNDERSTAND

• the direct connection between the petroleum industry and the production of plastic

• the harm plastic does to people and the planet in exchange for convenience

• the need for innovative nature based alternatives to plastic

INNOVATION- THE COOL STOOL 🍄Meet the mushroom that could one day replace plastic - This fungus might be able to replace plastic parts for electronics, vehicles, and sports equipment ^wikipedia +https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/substances/vinyl-chloride

Learn 👩‍🎓 Innovations, Innovators, Thought Leaders, Changemakers, New Ideas, New Frontiers

AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY☀️ SDG 7

• Ever heard of FESI-Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation?

• How much is Shell really spending on renewables?

• Lithium- understanding the total cost beyond $$

INDUSTRY INNOVATION & INFRASTRUCTURE🏢 SDG 8, 9 & 11

• Plastic nightmare

• Mushroom innovation

• No more roads-says Wales

• Recyclable windturbine blades is a big deal

• Bees know better

• Lets have more solar panel covered parking lots-France has them

• Indigenous underground greenhouses-taking back control

• New wind solar cheaper than all but one coal-fired power plant in US

RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION 🛒SDG 12

• Mushroom lighting is available now*

• Detoxing the fast fashion industry

• Consumers care about sustainability and shift spending to reflect it

• High recycled content, sturdy kitchen trash bags

EQUITY⚖️SDG 5&10

• Women and fair farming

• Eagles QB and all female team-yes Jalen Hurts

• Yes, this actually goes on in America

• Google and its role in abortion

• Homeownership, racial segregation, and policy solutions to racial wealth equity

• Black kids do travel

• Harvard study: racism, poverty alter brain development in black children

CLIMATE ACTION🌎 SDG 13, 14 & 15

• PFAS in Norwegian arctic ice

• Regenerative agriculture catching on in..yes..Arkansas

• Boundary waters canoe area protected for now....YAY!

• Planting trees in cities saves lives

• Canadian sea zone protected

• EPA stops pebble mine and protects bristol bay alaska using rare veto

INNOVATORS and MEDIA🔮

• Dr. Jessica Rickert-first native american female dentist

• Bayard Rustin-mentor to MLK

• Women in science-tackling the planetary crisis

• Rihanna-The Clara Lionel Foundation

• Murder in Bighorn-missing murdered montana indigenous women

*thank you robinepstein design

Act 🙂

February- Derived from the Latin word, the Roman month Februarius was named after the Latin term februum, which means "purification." It might be a good time to try to identify and purify your life of the unnecessary plastic in it.

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If I can help you or your organization, get in touch. I would love to connect. Best, Alexis