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Uncategorized / 20 March 2024 by John

What Instead? Podcast

In the podcast below we hear about Green Chemistry, Alternatives Assessment, what Just Transitions look like for workers and communities, and how Sustainable Businesses, Shareholder Activists, and Consumer Advocates are working hard to make a healthier world for all of us. Featuring Dr. Paul Anastas, Andy Behar, Jose Bravo,Dr. Lauren Heine, David Levine, Stacy Malkan, and Beverley Thorpe,

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This has been Unintended Consequences, “A Brief and Recent History of Environmental Health.”
  • Kelly Hendricks, editor
  • Kim Thomas, Advisor
  • Stephenie Hendricks, producer, writer, host.
Special Thanks to:
  • Dr. Paul Anastas
  • Andy Behar
  • Jose Bravo
  • Lauren Heine
  • David Levine
  • Stacy Malkan
  • Beverly Thorpe
Archival footage was used in this podcast, and we’d like to thank:
  • Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
  • Plus TV Africa
  • Purdue Engineering
  • Town Meeting TV
Funded in part by the

Peter Wall Institute Catalyst Collaboration Fund

“Unintended Consequences” is a doctoral research project for the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Sustainability theme, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies. Dr. Greg Garrard, Principle Investigator. Stephenie Hendricks, Project Lead.


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Bioaccumulation
1) The accumulation of pollutants in living organisms by direct absorption or through food chains. 2) Accumulation by an organism of materials that are not an essential component or nutrient of that organism. Usually it refers to the accumulation of metals, but it can apply to bioaccumulation of persistent synthetic substances such as organochlorine compounds. The process of bioaccumulation can be employed usefully as a purification process to remove toxic heavy metals from waste water and contaminated land (United Nations Law and Environment Assistance Program).

Biomimicry
“1. Nature as model. Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature’s models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf. 2. Nature as measure. Biomimicry uses an ecological standard to judge the ‘rightness’ of our innovations. After 3.8 billion years of evolution, nature has learned: What works. What is appropriate. What lasts. 3. Nature as mentor. Biomimicry is a new way of viewing and valuing nature. It introduces an era based not on what we can extract from the natural world, but on what we can learn from it.” (Janine M. Benyus, Biomimicry. HarperCollins).

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