Resources – Paul Noël

No planet B – organic cotton T-shirt

This is another organic cotton T-shirt from our Scientist and Philosopher range that we have produced on the Teemill platform.

We live on one small finite planet. Time to realise that and start using the limited resources more frugally. Stop wasting what we have and taking everything for granted.

Check out how these products are made using organic cotton. We need to live in not just a sustainable way but one that causes the least environmental loading on the planet. You can even send these items back to be made into new things when you have finished with them. (S&P)

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How are the figures for today? 28th February 2023.

I posted this almost a year ago. I hope that you have taken a look occasionally and notice that it’s not going down.

Sales figures? Growth figures? Money in? No, the figures that really matter. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere plus the other greenhouse gases, the extent of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice and the like. You know the figures that many, if not most businesses don’t give a damn about in the pursuit of profit or their contribution to.

The Keeling Curve should be looked at regularly https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/.

Where is it now? In how many pieces? Plastic pollution, Lac Leman, Switzerland — Plastic pollution, Lac Leman, Switzerland

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This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

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Dental floss, where's it from, where does it end up after use? — Dental floss, where’s it from, where does it end up after use?

Waste of resources, London building site

Has anything changed in the time I first posted this in March 2021? I don’t think so. We are probably still wasting resources as if there is no tomorrow and the planet is infinite. Plenty of hot air words and mission statement on going green but effectively just so much greenwashing in many if not most cases. The hoardings are probably covered in some form of plastic and possibly PFAS chemicals which as we know are being recognised as a health risk to both humans and the environment.

28th March 2021

This building site hoarding represents a great waste of natural materials and a source for long term damage to the environment. It’s single use for a start and will either end up in landfill or be incinerated. The materials used are not just natural wood as in previous times but are covered in all sorts of glossy materials which are most likely not natural and that will pollute the environment for possibly a long time into the future. Hoardings should be reusable. These are just an example of a rich society that just throws away and therefore, if used, should carry a large environmental loading tax.

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We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

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Headline news – Whale killed by a banana – environmental loading part 3a

Almost three years later and the world is still promoting ever more trade which of course will kill more whales and other marine life and hasten climate change. We are a long way from living sustainably. Hey, but the planet’s infinite isn’t it? We can keep growing and taking, growing and taking, growing and taking can’t we? Eh, no, we can’t so wake up.

10th February 2021

Following on from my environmental load part 3 post I’m adding an addendum to it. To this headline you might say “that’s bananas” and you would be right but I’m using it to highlight a human caused problem.

Bananas reach Europe by being packed into large refrigerated ships called reefers. They are then ripened using ethylene (maybe there’s a link here to climate change that I will have to look into), https://www.bananalink.org.uk/all-about-bananas/#:~:text=The%20fruit%20is%20then%20transported,to%20the%20UK%2FEurope).&text=When%20the%20bananas%20arrive%20at,then%20sent%20to%20the%20shops..

The point of my humourous attempt at a headline is that whales are being injured and killed along with other marine life in a variety of ways. As this BBC article highlights in this case it is through fishing but many creatures suffer unnatural collisions with ships, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55987350. Ultimately because we have so many demands as a species the natural world and its ecosystems are suffering. We are in fact too many and we take too much and we will have to come to terms with that.

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My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

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Bananas – environmental loading part 3

I posted this a couple of times before as a way of thinking about the food we eat because we supermarket shoppers often take the food we buy for granted.

7th February 2021

Are we bananas? A banana republic. Bananas get associated with far more than just being a fruit. Bananas are a common fruit in first world countries and probably most of us don’t give them a second thought. They are available all year round because we as supermarket shoppers have very little memory of seasonality. We go, we buy bananas because we want to eat bananas. If you are vegan of vegetarian than they are part of a non meat diet. However, what’s the story behind this fruit that is available all year round to us privileged consumers? The same of course could be said for many other products on our shelves but let’s concentrate on this one.

Bananas are taken for granted but they didn’t arrive in England, or at least London, I think until 1633. I’ll have to check that. So in those days they would have been an exotic specialist food and not distributed widely to the general society of 17th century England. That being said they wouldn’t have generated climate change like the bananas we eat today are doing. Like all food produce from far away lands at this current time fossil fuels used in their transportation are causing massive problems. I wonder what percentage of fruit in the 17th century would have made it to being eaten compared to those bananas being transported today? We buy and dispose of bananas without much thought because they are cheap for many of us but their cost in terms of changing or even damaging the environment, depending on which way you look at it is very high.

So let’s look at the global picture because not everyone gets to eat bananas but what if many more people wanted to eat bananas?. Would they remain unavailable as they were to many inhabitants of 17th century England? How much land would need to be cultivated to satisfy the number of people who wanted to eat bananas. Can the Earth support that number of people who want to eat bananas? There you have it. Look at all the food you eat and ask yourself how many humans can the Earth support given our supermarket levels of consumption? We cannot expect other humans, countless numbers of them, to exist on subsistence farming, while we eat exotic bananas. Something has to change.

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My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

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We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

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Too many cups – environmental loading part 2

First posted on the 5th of February 2021 we are still using up resources at an unsustainable rate.

5th February 2021

So what’s the link between the cups and glasses in our cupboards? We first have to remember that if we have cups, glasses and cupboards that we are fortunate. Not every one of the 7,800,000,000 humans on the planet has. If you are like us you will have a collection of them but how many, do you know? If like us then the same ones get used for most of the time while the rest gather dust in the the back of the cupboard. We have a real mishmash, funny cups bought as gifts, a regular set, odd ones left over from a time when you cannot remember how they even came to be in the cupboard. The problem with our collection of cups and glasses and many of the other items that fill up our apartments and houses is that they are resources that were dug out of the ground at some point and in doing so have damaged an ecosystem in some way. Energy was used to create them and quite possibly this has added to climate change or caused short or long term pollution to both ecosystems and the planet in general. Their production may have also been at the expense of exploited human labour. Did we ever check when we received that humourous cup as a gift? We are going to have to produce more cups and glasses and a lot more of what many of us have to meet the SDGs and that’s without replacing the ones that get broken or are produced to keep our unsustainable economies staggering forward until the next financial calamity. Truly, if you look at the cup you use on a daily basis it indicates the unsustainability of the human race in terms of consumption and human numbers. So the next time you fill your cup or your glass take a moment to think about it in the wider context, because as individuals and as a species, we need to change.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

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Privately owned EVs are not the solution in many cases

I have posted this a couple of times before and so far our economic model of unsustainable consumption on a planet of finite resources is just to replace privately owned fossil fuel powered vehicles with battery powered ones. This is clearly unsustainable.

22nd January 2021

Because of our human centric thinking, of which I am guilty as much as anybody else, switching from a fossil fuel powered car to an EV is not the solution. Private car ownership does not scale up to 7.8 billion people. Ask yourself where the resources come and not whether you find the price too high in terms of money, https://uk.news.yahoo.com/four-five-drivers-electric-cars-000100229.html. If you had to live with the mining and extraction and production on your doorstep you would think twice about it. So as part of our future sustainability where much of humanity will need to live in the 15 minute city concept we will all have to share our transport.

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Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

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No planet B – organic cotton T-shirt

This is another organic cotton T-shirt from our Scientist and Philosopher range that we have produced on the Teemill platform.

We live on one small finite planet. Time to realise that and start using the limited resources more frugally. Stop wasting what we have and taking everything for granted.

It’s available from our Teemill shop, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/product/no-planet-b-design-1-v1b/.

Our Teemill organic cotton products are ethically, environmentally and ecologically produced. They are recyclable, sustainable, stylish, high quality fashion items.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

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The way cars were – Fiat 500, Soho London

This is the size of a car over 50 years ago and in dense city and town centres where speeds are limited to 20 mph/30 kmh it should be the only size of cars that should be allowed today. Photographed in Soho in London on January 2nd 2023. The large SUVs and blingmobiles should be banned as being too large and fast for built up areas. For a greener future cars in these areas should be shareable and not privately owned freeing up road and parking spaces for other things.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Our Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

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Recycling – don’t bin those pens

Pens are cheap, for many at least but not for the environment. We have a small collection of them where they have run out of ink. One of our national stationers doesn’t sell cheap pen refills. I guess that there’s no money in it. I found these on the big A. I now have four working pens and six spare cartridges. Every little bit of pollution we save happening and every bit of precious resources that we save using is vital. Now if all 8,000,000,000 of us , or at least those that have access to pens and are able to write and that have been educated to write could only do the same.