Sustainable Asia

With INC4 starting this week and US EPA banning PFAS in drinking water, problematic plastics and chemicals of concern are top of the agenda.

With final meetings of the global plastic treaty beginning soon…can we redirect the conversation back to plastic pollution prevention?

A bonus episode decoding the politics and procedures slowing down negotiations of a UN Global Plastics Treaty. From our friends at the Plastisphere Podcast.

We talk to Marian Ledesma of Greenpeace Southeast Asia and Christina Dixon of Environmental Investigation Agency about what happened at the INC-2 meetings in Paris last week.

A bonus episode about the Global Plastics Treaty from one of our favorite podcasts called Plastisphere Podcast.

We need other solutions to the plastic waste crisis. Solutions that involve reduce, reuse, refill and repair here in Asia. And those types of solutions…need to be included in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations.

A special season about the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations happening over the next two years…with episodes dropping before and after every meeting!

We shift our focus from crops to livestock… specifically… dairy products made from cows. We humans have eaten dairy products for centuries…but only recently did we realize the impact that cows are having on climate change.

Rice is the staple food for more than 3.5 billion people. But did you know that rice farming produces 10% of the world’s methane emissions? In this episode, Marcy and Chermaine will start their journey from Madagascar in the 1960s…

The soil that gives life to 90% of the food on our table… now faces a “diet problem.” We are feeding it too many chemical fertilizers. And overuse of these fertilizers…is fueling climate change. How can China and the US, the two food superpowers, tackle this problem together?