Resources & Links: Blogs, Books and Videos
We've put together a list of our favourite blogs, reusables, books and videos that explore plastic-free living a little further.
Recommended Reads
Inspiring Short Videos Beth Terry Tedx Talk (12 mins) Living Plastic-Free. Beth Terry, the founder of My Plastic Free Life, shares her story of plastic free living. In it she explains the moment that made her stop and change direction, her experience so far and her tips and tricks on reducing her plastic consumption...view Jeff Kirschner Ted Talk (6 mins) The App That Makes It Fun to Pick Up Litter. The earth is a big place to keep clean. With Litterati - an app for users to identify, collect and geotag the world's litter - TED Resident Jeff Kirschner has created a community that's crowdsource-cleaning the planet. After tracking trash in more than 100 countries, Kirschner hopes to use the data he's collected to work with brands and organizations to stop litter before it reaches the ground....view Lindsay Miles Tedx Talk (12 mins) The Non-Disposable Life. How many things you throw away are designed to be used only once? Could you live well without using any disposable items? Lindsay Miles, founder of Treading My Own Path, put it to the test....view Plastic Oceans (Catalyst) (12 mins) May make you feel sick to the stomach but if you care about your own health and you like the odd bit of seafood this is essential viewing...view Story of Stuff (Bottled Water) (8 mins) The Story of Bottled Water, employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand — how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces...view Story of Stuff (Microfibres) (3 mins) Most of us wear synthetic fabrics like polyester every day. Our dress shirts, yoga pants, fleeces, and even underwear are all increasingly made of synthetic materials -- plastic, in fact. But these synthetic fabrics, from which 60% of all clothing on earth is made, have a big hidden problem: when they’re washed, they release tiny plastic bits -- called microfibers -- that flow down our drains, through water treatment plants, and out into our rivers, lakes and oceans by the billions....view |