People Are The Power

“Externalities of this scale and nature pose a major risk to the global economy and markets are not fully aware of these risks, nor do they know how to deal with them.” - Richard Mattison, Trucost’s COO

Article in Guardian.

That’s correct, without truly cooperative efforts we will struggle curbing those individually. Global understanding that it is in the interest of 7 billion of us to develop and manage our resources better is required to succeed, if we are serious about changing something at that scale.

Other research is available on Trucost’s website.

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Product overview and market projection of emerging bio-based plastics, a detailed study by Li Shen, Juliane Haufe, Martin K. Patel of Utrecht University, commissioned by European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence and European Bioplastics found that:

• The global capacity of emerging bio-based plastics at 0.36 Mt (million metric tonnes) by the end of 2007. This is approximately 0.3% of the worldwide production of all plastics (dominated by petrochemical plastics)
• The market of emerging bio-based plastics has been experiencing rapid growth. From 2003 to the end of 2007, the global average annual growth rate was 38%. In Europe, the annual growth rate was as high as 48% in the same period.
• The total maximum technical substitution potential of bio-based polymers replacing their petrochemical counterparts is estimated at 270 Mt, or 90% of the total polymers (including fibers) that were consumed in 2007 worldwide.

Indeed, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, we have the ability and we can get 90% renewable and 10% recyclable. Even fifty-fifty scenario would be excellent to arrive to. And may be we can resolve this situation.

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Analytics, Bioplastic, Sustainability, Sustainable Development

After going in stealth mode, company is releasing the technology set which we’ve been working on for a good while to the public.

Download our press release and white paper. And don’t forget to check out the company’s new website.

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Concave-Convex Membrane Mirror, GEL 1.0, GlucoEucoLac 1.0, Open Source, Optics, Renewable Thermoplastic Resin, Renewable Thin Film Mirror

The Big Picture

Dinosaurs were the biggest thing on the planet, had the largest teeth and successfully dominated the planet’s landscape. There are things to learn from their experience. Dinosaurs are no longer available in the big and mean shape, but the ones who survived learned to fly and  became birds.  The rest perished.

Source: David Monniau, Tyrannosaurus rex, Palais de la Découverte, Paris

The Big Picture is an essay written by 6 times honorary doctorate holder, 6-time space traveler John Young (ex-Technical Director, NASA).  John is the only person to have piloted in space four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini spacecraft, Apollo Command/Service Module, Apollo Lunar Module, and Space Shuttle. There are things to learn from this great human:

” The human race is at total war. Our enemy is ignorance, pure and simple. The last 25 years of NASA’s Solar System exploration including Earth is telling us what we need to do to preserve our species. This new knowledge is useless unless we act on it. Large volcanoes on Earth, giant impacts on Earth, or unreliable solar activity cannot be ignored. Historical statistics show that these events are likely in our lifetimes or the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren. Knowing what we know now, we are being irresponsible in our failure to make the scientific and technical progress we will need for protecting our newly discovered severely threatened and probably endangered species — us…”

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