If you came home to find that your apartment was flooding, would you immediately start mopping up the water? Probably not! That would be a futile effort without first finding out what is causing the

If you came home to find that your apartment was flooding, would you immediately start mopping up the water? Probably not! That would be a futile effort without first finding out what is causing the flooding and stopping it. This is the essence of tackling the root cause of a problem — moving upstream. In a circular economy, upstream innovation is about tracing a problem back to its root cause and tackling it there. Why deal with a pile of waste when we can prevent it from being created in the first place? Good for the environment, good for the economy: shifting just 20% of plastic packaging from single-use to reuse is an upstream innovation opportunity worth ~USD 10 billion. Join us in this episode to explore worldwide cutting-edge upstream innovation examples to tackle plastic pollution. We will hear from Apeel, who disrupts food systems by extending the life of fruit and vegetables without any single-use plastic. Next up: Enviu will share their reuse projects and how they are tackling plastic pollution from Indonesia to The Netherlands.

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Those living in the "environmental sacrifice zone" of San Juan County say No to Desert Rock, the third coal plant proposed in their region. Mike Eisenfeld of the San Juan Citizens Alliance discusses

Those living in the "environmental sacrifice zone" of San Juan County say No to Desert Rock, the third coal plant proposed in their region. Mike Eisenfeld of the San Juan Citizens Alliance discusses the issues as well as option of concentrated solar near Shiprock as a viable solution. Learn more at http://www.bioneers.org

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golefttv — March 26, 2009 — Its been 20 years since the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled into the Prince William Sound, and dumped almost 11 million gallons of oil into the water. But even after two decades of trials and environmental cleanup, conditions are still dismal for the residents who have been trying to get justice. And to make things even worse, we still don't have a full understanding of what really happened when the tanker hit the reef. And that's where our good friend Greg Palast comes in. Greg has been covering this story since the start, and it was the lack of real investigations and inquiries into this disaster that kickstarted his career in journalism. Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio talks with Palast about the true history of the Exxon Valdez.

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Exxon Valdez  Exxon  Oil Spill  Greg Palast  Journalism  Drunk  Captain  Environment  Clean Up  Mike Papantonio  Ring of Fire  Air America Radio  GoLeftTV  GoLeft.tv 

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