Mike Tannenbaum

We tend to think of the environment as a subsystem of the economy, but it is entirely the other way around. We are part of nature, not separate from it.

current biodegradable products can only decompose if they are sent to a special factory, where the temperature and humidity is specially controlled, and lumped together with other compostable plastics. (If those plastics are thrown into landfill and mixed in with other trash, it doesn’t matter if they’re compostable or not. They’re not going back... See more

without a market demand, those recyclables are almost useless; placing them in the recycling bin won’t make a difference if you can’t make money off of them. If the demand isn’t there, or the quality of the materials post-use is incurably dirty, they end up in landfill or incinerators.

A communication architecture is a company’s documented set of practices, tools, and associated processes for how and when people communicate. It describes all the types of communication—such as email, meetings, phone calls, online chat—and the tools and protocols for using each one.

Europe and North America will reach “peak meat” by 2025, at which point consumption of conventional meat starts to fall,

First, recycling programs across the U.S. are successfully recycling plastic today, and we know what it will take to recycle more of it.