Climate Thoughts with Brian

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Ripon Repair Café: One Year On and Still Going Strong.

Repair culture proving popular against rising consumerism Ripon Repair Café opened its doors once again this Saturday (11th July) to mark the first anniversary of beginning their repair journey in 2025. Sue Griffin, an organiser for the local repair team said, ‘In the first year of the repair café, we have saved a lot of…
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Review of ‘Plastic Inc.’ by Beth Gardiner

Let’s start with a visual experiment. Look around the room which you are in and see how many objects you can spot which are made of plastic. The television? The television remote? Your laptop? Your phone? Those pesky pieces of Lego? Which plastics are in your television remote? When you upgrade to a new tv,…
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Review of ‘Total Garbage- How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal the World’, Edward Humes

‘You will swallow 285 pieces of plastic today. You will do it again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next.’ ‘Total Garbage’ by Edward Humes opens with shocking facts about the level of plastic pollution that we have in our world today. He helpfully visualises the extent of the plastic that we are ingesting…
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