From the category “creative responses to environmental challenges“: Edible Cutlery. As the world is wasting incredible amounts of mostly fossil-fuel based plastic, and wood-based chopsticks cutlery, a couple of people in India (Bakeys.com)have come up with practical, edible cutlery. Including Forks, Spoons and chopsticks, this cutlery is made from double-dried bread, has a shelf-life more than three years. It also bio-degrades within just a couple of days and is reported to be very tasty. A truly creative response to a considerable problem.
The religion of capitalist economics
In earlier posts we mentioned the Oxfam report entitled “The cost of inequality: how wealth and income extremes hurt us all,” which outlined how the annual income of richest 100 people is enough to end global poverty four times over (i.e. while the annual net income of the world’s richest 100 billionaires is about $240 billion, the estimated cost of raising everyone worldwide above the $1.25 a day poverty line is about $66 billion). Recently Oxfam released another report, “Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality,” which maps the the general distribution of wealth on a global level.…
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