To follow onto our Drawdown series, where we highlight the top 10 solutions by the book: ““Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming”, we will be discussing the importance of Clean Cookstoves.

Many environmental and social issues act as catalysts or as direct effects of one another. The same can be said for the way people prepare food. Traditional cooking methods, such as open fires or burning charcoal, cause significant pollution problems in turning snowballing into a myriad of health issues including in the lungs and heart.

If someone were to ask you what percentage of…

A couple of years ago, we came across an ambitiously titled book: “Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming”.

The author, Paul Hawken together with an army of climate researchers, assessed and compiled a list of 80 solutions from a range of sectors such as transportation, food, buildings, and land use, which can have the biggest impact in climate change mitigation. The book’s brilliance lies in mapping out, for the first time, a comprehensive set of pragmatic climate solutions we can research, develop and mobilise into the future.

We decided to create a Drawdown Series to…

To understand what to expect out of 2021, let’s look back to what happened in the environmental space in 2020.

It’s safe to say that 2020 was a year that many of us want to put behind us. What started off as a wake-up call to necessary climate action given the devastating impacts from the Australian bushfires, spiraled into a global public health crisis not seen in generations. With the pandemic being in the limelight, it’s hard not to be tunneled into despair given the vast structural issues that surfaced over the past year.

We started Recirkl with the purpose…

In our previous post, we explored the thought, How sustainable is online shopping? Why Mindful Dropshipping could be the Future of Commerce, taking into account the growing problem of hyper-consumerism and introducing our method of Mindful Dropshipping.

In this think-piece, we want to continue on this same tangent and explore how expedited delivery options are exacerbating our hyper-consumerist tendencies resulting in mass environmental issues.

The definition of expedited delivery varies with two-day, one-day or even same-day alternatives available depending on the eCommerce platform you use. In short: you can receive the products you want, easier and cheaper. …

When it comes to buying stuff, it’s safe to say that online shopping is proving to be cost-effective, convenient and downright easy to do. No wonder in 2019, an estimated 2 billion people purchased goods or services online , thanks to conglomerates like Amazon and Taobao. Given the COVID-19 crisis, consumers can comfortably order products from the comfort of their own sofa — limiting the risk of COVID contraction by avoiding the high street.

However, feeding into this mentality of money saving, convenience and ease contributes to the growing problem of hyper-consumerism — a way of consuming to meet ‘created…

What’s Happened in the Media

It has been nearly three months since we posted our piece on ‘Black Lives Matter x Environmental Injustice’ where we explored the linkages between environmental and racial injustice. To carry on the discussion, we felt it was necessary to address what has happened broadly since the beginning of May, who has written what and attempt to answer various questions. Are we in a better place now in terms of momentum? Is the direction we are taking increasing environmental and racial justice?

Perhaps one of the most jarring events to occur since George Floyd’s murder has been the shooting of Jacob…

Written by Nina Pusic & Julio C. Othon

2020 — the world is starting to see the impact of 1°C of warming above estimated pre-industrial levels. The past few years have had the largest wildfire season recorded in California’s history; severe floods due to rising rainfall averages during monsoons in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar; and devastation caused by stronger tropical cyclones, such as Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.

Conversations around the underlying factor exacerbating these disasters, climate change, have gained special traction over the past 5 years notably as a result of the 2015 Paris Agreement — ratified by 189…

Written by Noora Mykkanen

Food is fantastic, fabulous and many more things making it the true muse and- in fact- enabler of human invention. While food is primarily a fuel to keep us active, for many it is not just a biological necessity but a daily joy and source of inspiration. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well” Virginia Woolf once said of the fundamentality of food. Examining the words ‘dining well’ as Woolf put it exposes the other…