For a plastic free revolution we need new lenses by @MarIntroini

A simple question – one in which Mar asked me (@rwscarter- Ryan) about recently while I was on the radio, what is more important? Education or Innovation? Well here is her answer.   A matter of Education or Innovation: which “lenses” come first? For a real plastic free revolution we need a solid educational framework […]

CrowdLeaf Newsletter – The Importance Of Water – 6th February 2018

 This week we are looking at the importance of water. With unusual seasonal patterns for 3 consecutive years due to climate change, the people of Cape Town are facing severe water shortages. Lakes are drying up, the environment is struggling and peoples businesses are under threat due to the drought. It is only a matter […]

CrowdLeaf Newsletter 2nd February 2018

Welcome to the CrowdLeaf Newsletter, what a week, we have done so much and the green community is going from strength to strength. In this CrowdLeaf Newsletter we will start with what we have been involved with, including supporting  a campaigin to end plastics in Supermarkets, we have a a great piece written by Simon […]

CrowdLeaf Newsletter – The War On Plastic and Recycling News – 29th January 2018

Welcome to the first edition of our bi-weekly newsletters. In this first edition, there’s great articles on how people around the world and the UK are recycling and reducing plastic pollution by making kayaks, Co-op group are producing fully biodegradable tea bags and an eco-friendly company producing plastic free packaging made from mushrooms. In our […]

CrowdLeaf Newsletter 24th January 2018

Welcome to this weeks newsletter. We are seeing a fantastic effort and commitments being made by various companies and countries against the war on plastic. A lot more has still yet to be done but seeing the positive movement brings back a bit faith to humanity and shows what we can achieve if we all pull […]

CrowdLeaf Newsletter 16th January 2018

Welcome to this weeks CrowdLeaf newsletter. The world is seeing and making more effort to cut out plastic pollution and Teresa May has brought out her statement of commitment to reduce this for the UK by 2042. We at CrowdLeaf hope to see this happen a lot sooner for the sake of all the marine […]

Life’s Evils & The Damage of Climate Change

The collective lack of preparations to mitigate the effects of global warming are bordering on self-induced mass harm, while the switch to more environmentally friendly policies and clean and sustainable energy is nowhere near fast nor bold enough to provide the alternative.

The Green Shoots of Crowdfunding by @rwscarter

There is a beautiful bottom-up revolution underway in the energy market, but like all revolutions there is hurdles the question is can the state facilitate the green revolution, I think it should. This requires putting into reverse how the state has been seen in market interventions as a monolithic agent ‘crowding-out’ competition. I believe that […]

Man-Made Earthquakes ?! What & How on BBCRadio4

Fellow readers – I stumbled across this rather daunting piece of information while looking for a possible man-made disaster for an upcoming ‘Climate Mitigation Game’ that is currently in the early formation phases. I continue to be hocked by the size, scale and scope of human and human made climate change or disasters we collectively […]

SDG´s 12+14= the panoptic for plastic waste by @MarIntroini

When Foucault creates the concept of a panoptic for the criminal system he didn’t realized its real potential and that it could be applied for other areas in which there is danger for our societies, in this case for our oceans. If there were a constant surveillance and a rational and responsible consumption maybe plastics […]