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Australia cuts 80% of its plastic bag use in just three months - NationofChange Excerpt from this Nation of Change story:
Three months ago Australia’s two biggest supermarket chains, Coles and Woolworths, pledged to ban plastic bags. The decision was met with a huge public outcry, resulting in Coles actually temporarily reversing the rule, then settling on a small fee for plastic bags. This small change has led to an enormous difference: the country has seen an 80 percent reduction in the country’s overall consumption of plastic bags.
According to Australia’s National Retail Association, the new rule has kept some 1.5 billion bags out of the environment. Considering it takes as much petroleum to produce one plastic bag as it does to drive a car 36 feet, this is a welcome improvement. Not only will this save on air pollution from using less petroleum, but it will also help with ocean and land pollution as well. Plastic bags are among the 12 items found most often in coastal clean ups.
“Indeed, some retailers are reporting reduction rates as high as 90 per cent,” National Retail Association’s David Stout said.
Honestly, this is sooo good that I’m actually a bit skeptical. But even if it’s half as good as reported - and “only” a 40% reduction - that would still be amazing. So I really hope it’s true, but will definitely wait for more info.
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Asia Pacific 90 years ago today: Northeast Flag Replacement (29 Dec 1928) https://buff.ly/2ETkwiF Japanese attempts to halt the Nationalist advance in China were thwarted when the warlord Yan Xishan unexpectedly seized Beijing on behalf of Chiang Kaishek’s Nationalist government. The other warlords soon followed suit in recognizing the Nationalist regime in Nanjing, culminating in December with the Fengtian clique raising the Nationalist flag in the cities of the northeast. Once again China was united, albeit more as a coalition of warlords than a centralized state. #asiapacific #history #welovemaps #map #1920s #1928 #china #chinesecivilwar #chinesehistory #december #december29 #fengtian #japan #japanesehistory #kuomintang #manchuria #mukden #warlordchina #chiangkaishek #jiangjieshi #maps #chineseunification #todayinhistory #historytoday #historyteacher #historybuff #historygeek #historynerd #asianhistory #worldhistory (at Shenyang, Liaoning)
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US gun laws, Thai cave divers, and the price of beer around the world: What 2018 looked like in maps
Maps can tell us a lot about what happened in 2018 — from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding to the results of the Midterm elections.
The Graphics Insider team compiled 56 of the maps we created this year that visualize the many ups and downs of 2018.
Follow along through 2018 in maps, from wildfires and baby name trends, to the cost of products around the world and Trump’s tariff war.
(via mapsontheweb)
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Jimi Hendrix and Lulu, January 1969, by Barrie Wentzell. “Jimi appeared live on Lulu’s TV show and caused a sensation when he stopped playing ’Hey Joe’ during the middle announcing, ’I’ve had enough of this!’ He started instead to play ’Sunshine of my Love’, a song by my favorite band Cream!. I saw Jimi by the window and asked Lulu if I could take a picture of them together. Jimi was a BIG star but agreed to a snap.”
(via vintageliving)
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Nan Madol
Off the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia, lies the ancient city of Nan Madol, the only ancient city ever built upon a coral reef. Comprising a set of almost 100 stone and coral fill platforms atop artificial islands separated by narrow channels and enclosed by an outer seawall, Nan Madol is an engineering marvel.
Yet despite the enormity of the undertaking in building the city, no records exist as to when exactly it was built, where the enormous rocks came from, how they were transported there, and for what reason it was constructed on top of a reef.
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Phones are getting smarter and thinner, people not so much.
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just calling it now
