Clothing brands are burning or shredding their unsold stock
Clothing brands are burning or shredding their unsold stock Fortunately, we can do something about this wasteful practice.
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Stevie Bee
Aug 26, 20204 min read
Looking after country, looking after us
We may not see Closing The Gap in our lifetimes, but we could do this — and together.
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Stevie Bee
May 13, 20202 min read
Are we now afraid of each other and the world?
Has Covid-19 left us wary of each other, physical objects . . . and the world?
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Stevie Bee
Jan 27, 20201 min read
The coronavirus by the numbers
Yes, this new virus has a message for us. Like all viruses, all diseases. And this one is one of the more challenging ones. ‘Coronavirus’...
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Alexandra Jacobo
Aug 13, 20192 min read
There’s a new plastic on the rock
We know it’s taking over our oceans and beaches — an estimated seven million tonnes of plastic ends up in our oceans every year, and...
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Ashley Curtin
Jun 10, 20192 min read
It’s official: new study confirms we’re all eating plastic
A new study confirms that, on average, humans consume 50,000 bits of plastic a year and inhale nearly the same amount. Microplastics are...
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Stevie Bee
May 15, 20193 min read
More proof air pollution can cause dementia
Over the past few years, research has been piling up that strongly suggests air pollution is one of the causes of dementia. Now, evidence...
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Stevie Bee
Apr 30, 20193 min read
Fashion facts
• Worldwide, almost 100 billion items of clothing are made annually — 400% more than twenty years ago. A third of them end up in...
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Stevie Bee
Oct 23, 20181 min read
Ditch the ’poo: wash your hair with . . . just water
This might sound gross to some, but only because we’ve all been conditioned (pardon the pun) to think it just has to be gross. You don’t...
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Stevie Bee
Oct 11, 20183 min read
Flying toilets. Yep, it’s a thing. Well, until recently.
When you lack proper sanitation — in fact, when you lack a physical toilet and a whole in the ground in a crowded shanty town just won't...
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Stevie Bee
Sep 22, 20182 min read
New dystopian nightmare: mozzies eating plastic
I've been sharing stories recently that almost seem like science fiction: Coked-up eels, shellfish on opoids, antiobiotic waste...
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Stevie Bee
Aug 3, 20183 min read
Plastic by the numbers
Mountains of plastic washed up on idyllic honeymoon islands in The Maldives Photo: Caters News Agency Like our birthdays, phone numbers,...
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Stevie Bee
Jun 28, 20181 min read
First it was antibiotic waste causing superbugs, then opioids driving shellfish crazy and now eels are going hyperactive
Endangered European eels are getting smashed on cocaine
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Stevie Bee
Jun 17, 20181 min read
We make it, we throw it away. It eventually comes back to us. Including drugs.
Shellfish test positive for opioids and other drugs Back in January I noted that antibiotics were leaking from pharmaceutical factories...
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Stevie Bee
Jun 7, 20182 min read
We can eat anything all year round, but is that good for us?
Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus . . . Consider the seasons of the year, and what effects each of...
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Stevie Bee
Jan 26, 20182 min read
Antibiotic waste leaked from factories adds to rise of superbugs
Many of the world’s leading drug manufacturers may be leaking antibiotics from their factories into the environment, according to a...
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Stevie Bee
Sep 23, 20171 min read
A salt to the senses
As if we needed more evidence that our addiction to plastic and our cavalier attitude toward its disposal was coming back to bite us,...
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