#enviroment

[mindblowingscience]

Cancer-causing flame retardants found in everyday things like plastics, furniture, fabrics and electronics can be sucked up by the skin and absorbed into the bloodstream in 24 hours, scientists have found. A state-of-the-art 3D-printed skin model was used in an exposure study in the journal Environment International, shedding fresh light on the potential risks these pervasive pollutants pose. Sweatier skin sucks up more of the chemicals—polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)—than dry skin when microplastics they've been added to come into contact with the skin.

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[you-need-not-apply]

My least favourite thing that this generation is doing, is saying that it is only the corporations fault for our failing world.

It is their fault, don't get me wrong. But we as individuals are just as responsible for our own emissions and waste.

You can do stuff to help, do not blame the corporations, companies and businesses and then turn around and do nothing about it.

Campaign against them, ask for change, get laws and regulations introduced, don't do nothing while pumping out your own emissions/waste and putting the blame solely on the corporations shoulders.

"Its one 'no' vote" said 9,452,792 people (AU)

"Its one straw" said 500,000,000 people every day (US) "Its only one plastic bag" said every American for 365 days (totalling around 365 bags per person per year)

[sun-citadel]

Time Gear

[typhlonectes]

[lavendel081]

Farm House Concept, Storage Room

[nemfrog]

"You can't get a moment's peace with all these submarines." Ménagerie. 1906.

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

Nearly 63,000 small pieces of plastic were pulled from Toronto Harbour over six months last year — thanks to trash traps, according to research data released on Monday. The plastic pieces were part of 43 kilograms of garbage removed from the water from May to October 2023, according to PortsToronto and the University of Toronto Trash Team, a community outreach organization. In a news release on Monday, PortsToronto said its network of trash traps includes eight Seabins, which are floating garbage cans that suck in trash, and two WasteSharks, which are small remote-controlled vessels that skim the surface of the water to collect floating debris. Apart from the volume of plastic taken out of the harbour last year, however, both organizations say there are signs that the amount of plastic garbage floating in the water is on the decline this year and the drop may be due to outreach and education efforts. 

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Tagging @politicsofcanada

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

Velvet Road by  Max Bedulenko

[leyrey]

sky castle

[sennamaticart]

My big tablet is tethered to my PC so instead of going outside to do Plein April, I bring it to me! Here's a random google street view study of a roadside in Tsuruoka!

[willczek-art]

Concepts for Illustration class!

Prompt: GET ANGRY focused on how the previous generation ruined our planet

[mindblowingscience]

For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU's climate service. World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts. This first year-long breach doesn't break that landmark Paris agreement, but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term. Urgent action to cut carbon emissions can still slow warming, scientists say.

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[you-need-not-apply]

f it, time to be depressed about the results of this poll (free blocklist ig)

REBLOG FOR SAMPLE SIZE!! LETS GET AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE!!

[vegance]

people just love to appropriate poverty struggles and classicism when they are challenged on their own consumption habits.

veganism is bad because some people live in food deserts (even though they don't)

no one can critizise fast fashion and ultra consumption of clothing because it's just so classist to say we shouldn't support slave labor (ignoring the fact that "poor" people are not buying 70 new items of clothing a year)

framing the demand for fundamental change, and the actions supporting it as intolerant as those horrible existing systems, because accountability is scary, and changing your lifestyle is hard.

if you cannot make a certain change right now, that's ok. activism groups largely know and account for that. but you should ask yourself: "can i actually not do this? or am i just unwilling to give up a priviledge i have?" because there is a difference

[najsigt]

Some drawings from last week's environment design workshop!

[jareckiworld]

Nina Ruokonen — Hugging the Globe (Part I) pigment on aluminium, 2022.