Pollution, toxins, and plastics

Global Business on BBC radio features Ray Anderson, director of a large carpet manufacturer attempting to reach zero footprint business.

Steven Sokolsky talks to David Room of GPM about the California Home Performance Program and it's goals of making homes' mechanical systems, such as heating and air conditioning, perform to a higher and healthier standard and to make them more energy efficient.

Speaking about his work, the importance of transitioning from the petro-pollution "gulag" economy to a green economy, peak oil, and the issues of people of color, among other things.

Can the environmental crisis be solved by orthodox economics? Michael Perelman talks about market solutions versus economic planning.

The ongoing use and "disposal" of plastics is a health disaster, because we are never rid of the stuff. All the plastic that's ever been produced is still with us today... unless, of course, it has been incinerated which spews a plethora of toxic substances into the air.

a scientific investigation regarding the "explosive increase" of plastic debris in the world’s ocean that depicts how plastic is negatively impacting sea life in increasingly alarming ways