Graphic Designer - creating websites and illustrations. Dealing with ethical design and branding in a circular economy. Sustainable products, zero waste.
It was only in 2015 that British taxpayers finished ‘paying off’ the debt which the British government incurred in order to compensate British slave owners in 1835 because of the abolition of slavery. https://t.co/DwfkMidLWN
I don't want innovations which improve my shopping experience or make smartphones a tiny bit better, I want innovations which eliminate world hunger, innovations which make it so people have more free time, innovations which help humans live in harmony with our ecosystem.
Droughts in Europe made the "Hunger Stones" visible this year. These stones were used to mark desperately low river levels that would forecast famines. This one, in Elbe river, is from 1616 and says: "If you see me, cry"
There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate#climate#COP27
New paper warns of catastrophic loss of EU's birds. Net loss of 600 million birds between 1980 to 2017
That's one out of every six birds
#PlanetEarth#Sustainability#biodiversity
Today's accelerating rate of global species extinction is tens to hundreds of times higher than the average of the last 10 million years so once you've cast your Vote for Biden! you'd better get real busy replacing the economic system ripping apart the fabric of the living Earth.
This isn’t because “2020 sucks”, it’s because of climate change and the fossil fuel industry, who knew for decades the damage they would cause, but decided to destroy life on earth because it made them rich.
This isn’t a “2020 is a bad year” thing, this will continue to worsen.
This important new paper by @JKSteinberger et al shows that the richest 10% are responsible for up to 43% of environmental impacts.
"Human and planetary wellbeing will not be achieved in the Anthropocene if affluent overconsumption continues." https://t.co/HwMG7tNIWe
"The long gap between this money being borrowed and its repayment was due to the type of financial instrument that was used, rather than the amount of money borrowed." - said UK Gov Treasury https://t.co/DwfkMhWb5f
It was only in 2015 that British taxpayers finished ‘paying off’ the debt which the British government incurred in order to compensate British slave owners in 1835 because of the abolition of slavery. https://t.co/DwfkMidLWN
A gilt is a financial instrument that pays interest payments twice/year to the holder of the gilt, up to and including the date on which the amount borrowed is finally repaid. Gilts are typically sold to large investment banks which, in turn, sell the gilts on to end-investors.