#paper
Notpla salvages seaweed by-product to make paper
Sustainable packaging brand Notpla has used seaweed leftover from its own production processes to create paper that can be turned into envelopes and boxes.
Notpla introduced its eponymous product Notpla Paper in collaboration with Canopy, a nonprofit organisation that aims to protect forests and animal species threatened by climate change.
Notpla Paper is made from 30 per cent seaweed by-product
According to its creators, Notpla Paper is made from 30 per cent seaweed by-product, which refers to any secondary product that is made as a result of a production process and is often thrown away and wasted.
Notpla – which is a shortening of "not plastic" – uses pure seaweed to create all of its existing products, which include biodegradable condiment sachets and coating for food containers.
The brand explained that it wanted to find a use for the seaweed leftover from its production processes "to make sure nothing is wasted".
The material can be used as packaging
"Each of our products uses different extracts of seaweed, leaving the fibrous part of it behind," Notpla design director Karlijn Sibbel told Dezeen.
"This by-product represents a significant amount of pure raw seaweed. From our desire to utilise every part of the seaweed, the idea to upcycle this material came naturally."
The paper can create containers for various products
Notpla claimed that using one tonne of seaweed by-product could save up to four tonnes of trees being felled, preventing deforestation.
"From a circular mindset in which waste doesn't exist, we aim to reduce the need for virgin materials as much as possible and therefore prefer the use of by-products," said Sibbel.
"With the need for seaweed extracts in our other product lines, we want to make sure every part of the seaweed is fully valued and used to the best extent."
A minimal wine label made from Notpla Paper
The brand said that the remaining 70 per cent of Notpla Paper is composed of a mixture of mainly other recycled materials and a small portion of traditional virgin wood pulp.
"Our design process is firstly driven by an environmental point of view," Sibbel continued. "This means that we use as much seaweed as possible, as little virgin wood as possible and no synthetic additives, which are currently the status quo in papermaking."
The paper has a speckled appearance
Speckled and neutrally-toned in appearance, Notpla Paper can be used to package products such as hand soap and toothbrushes, as well as to create boxes, envelopes and labels on wine bottles.
Sibbel explained that while the paper currently contains some virgin wood, Notpla aims to create entirely wood-free paper by 2024.
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While the brand did not specify which materials will be used to achieve this, its intention is to blend alternative fibres with the seaweed by-product to will support the paper's technical properties.
"Our ambition is to alleviate pressure on forests and decrease the environmental impact of paper manufacturing," concluded Sibbel.
Notpla aims to create entirely wood-free paper by 2024
Notpla Paper is part of Canopy's Pack4Good initiative, a project that is challenging brands to create sustainable alternatives to traditional paper packaging.
Founded in 2014 Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre Paslier while the pair were studying Innovation Design Engineering, Notpla also manufactures biodegradable seaweed packaging, which was shortlisted in the sustainable design category at the 2021 Dezeen Awards.
The images are courtesy of Notpla.
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#all #design #products #sustainabledesign #paper #packaging #seaweed #circulareconomy #recycling #notpla
Effects of exercise on cellular and tissue aging
source: https://www.aging-us.com/article/203051/pdf
ABSTRACT
The natural aging process is carried out by a progressive loss of homeostasis leading to a functional decline in
cells and tissues. The accumulation of these changes stem from a multifactorial process on which both external
(environmental and social) and internal (genetic and biological) risk factors contribute to the development of
adult chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D). Strategies that can slow cellular aging include
changes in diet, lifestyle and drugs that modulate intracellular signaling. Exercise is a promising lifestyle
intervention that has shown antiaging effects by extending lifespan and healthspan through decreasing the
nine hallmarks of aging and age-associated inflammation. Herein, we review the effects of exercise to
attenuate aging from a clinical to a cellular level, listing its effects upon various tissues and systems as well as
its capacity to reverse many of the hallmarks of aging. Additionally, we suggest AMPK as a central regulator of
the cellular effects of exercise due to its integrative effects in different tissues. These concepts are especially
relevant in the setting of T2D, where cellular aging is accelerated and exercise can counteract these effects
through the reviewed antiaging mechanisms.
#health #saúde #exercise #exercicio #deporte #diabetes #heart #aging #envellecemento #science #paper #ciencia
Up until now, this Katharsisdrill profile has been reserved for finished artworks only, the ones that are published in high resolution and as Creative Commons -by 4.0. All the other stuff, the reshares, the ancient artworks, the jazz-tunes and the #dongday pictures are on my other profile, the Jakobu one and that also includes sketches, eveningdrawings and other artworks that I have been reluctant or unready to deem finished.
But now that I have The Katharsisdrill website with a complete catalogue of all the art I have published, there is really no need for me not to write more casual posts on this profile - and at least all the things that has to do with my art - sketches, inspiration, my feeble attempts to make people support the project, announcements when I make a Kickstarter (which I am planning to do soon) and other things that really are part of the Katharsisdrill work.
So here is the sketch for the artwork I posted three days ago - Norn the mechanic God. Many things start of as simple as that and many things start on paper. For all its fancy stuff, digital art still has a hard time competing with the freedom offered by a piece of paper.
#art #socialmedia #paper #sketches #blogging #change #Katharsisdrill
Extreme Weather Events and Capitalism
The #Ice Is #Melting
The #Land Is #Burning
The #Ocean Is #Dying
The #Living #Planet Is #Unravelling
It's happening on our watch.
No more delays ...
#Climate #scientists around the world are alarmed by a triple climate-change-related crisis that hit the western U.S. and Canada in June and July.
Normally climatologists are careful in their assessment of extreme weather events, under pressure from energy industry profiteers and anti-science climate change deniers. They go to great pains to avoid being accused of exaggeration, and rarely (really never) point to climate change as the cause of specific freakish #weather events.
The severity of what has happened in June and July has pushed past many of their carefully calculated projections. The fingerprints of capitalist-induced global warming are all over the crime scene.
A severe #drought in the western states of the U.S. that has been worsening for months has nearly drained Lake Mead in Nevada, Lake Oroville in California and other major reservoirs, threatening #power #generation for millions of people. A series of intense, widespread, sustained heat waves tortured a quarter of the U.S. as well as western Canada for weeks, taking the lives of hundreds of people.
The super-dry conditions in the region have caused 83 wildfires, including the Dixie Fire in northern California and the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon. They are two of the largest #wildfires in #history and are both still raging.
Mild Pacific Northwest goes wild
The southwest U.S. is no stranger to deadly heat, but what is most unexpected is that this extreme heat has hit the Pacific Northwest, a region known for mild temperatures and damp weather.
Roads buckled in Seattle from the sweltering heat. For several days Portland, Ore., was the fourth-hottest place on earth. British Columbia suffered the highest death toll with more than 800 deaths between the end of June and middle of July — quadruple the average number of deaths.
The village of Lytton in British Columbia burned to the ground just as Paradise, Calif., did in 2018 — essentially nothing left but ashes and smoke.
In Canada’s British Columbia province, and the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon and northern California, the heat broke all-time temperature records, and then broke those records again, and then again.
Electric power for millions threatened
Nevada and California’s livability depends on a system of 1,500 human-made reservoirs, not only for drinking water and agriculture but for electricity from hydroelectric generators.
Engineers say that the water level in Lake Mead will be below the minimum water level needed to generate power to 1.3 million people in a matter of days. Lake Oroville will likely last until September, when it won’t be able to supply electricity for another 800,000.
Normally, power companies buy power from nearby regions when needed. But constantly running air conditioning in a wide swath of the western U.S. during 2021 has diminished power surpluses that normally allow that to happen.
All told, the fires have burned 1.3 million acres — an area larger than Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago combined. The smoke has journeyed cross-country to the East Coast, prompting air quality warnings along the northern part of the Eastern Seaboard and as far inland as central Virginia.
In addition to California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, the heatwaves hit Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Heat deadly for agricultural workers
Thirty-eight-year-old Sebastián Francisco Pérez from Guatemala was working at an Oregon tree farm on June 26 when he collapsed and died from the heat. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 53 #agricultural #workers died from heat nationwide in 2019, but this was the first in Oregon directly attributable to heat.
Only four states have laws in place to protect farmworkers. Oregon became the third after the death of Sebastián. Washington State quickly followed with some emergency measures. Some other states merely have “guidelines.”
Irene Ruiz, an #environmental #justice organizer from Boise, Idaho, messaged about the heightened danger to agricultural workers during heatwaves. “Guidelines are not enough. These are the people who put food on our tables and are the most affected and in danger of extreme heat.”
#Imperialism and #globalwarming
Recent decades have seen extreme weather events become more frequent and much more severe than previous periods. Experts point to that quickening pace and increasing severity as caused directly by global warming, even though they usually avoid blaming global warming for specific weather events.
The opposing narrative, motivated by energy profiteers, is that the warming of the atmosphere during this period is a natural cycle, that it has happened before over the millennia, and that it will pass.
But a #scientific #paper published in the journal Nature on July 28 referenced two large, decades-long studies of the #Earth’s “ #energy balance” — the amount of the sun’s energy entering Earth’s atmosphere compared to the amount of energy reflected back out into space. Both studies confirm that greenhouse gases are keeping the sun’s energy trapped in our atmosphere.
The paper asserts that there is less than a 1% chance that the rise in global temperatures and all of its frightening consequences are a natural occurrence.
#Greenhouse #gases began to heat the #atmosphere with the dawn of #industrial #capitalism in the latter part of the 19th century. That much is readily admitted in the capitalist press these days. What isn’t written about enough is the role of imperialist domination in this crisis for #humanity.
The machinery of war is the greatest consumer of oil, and like a dog chasing its tail, pollutes the world while fighting to control oil markets. If the #US military machine were to be ranked in the list of countries that indicates how much they contribute to pollutants that heat the atmosphere, the list would show it ahead of 46 countries.
Estimates of the cost of stopping global warming vary from $300 billion to Forbes Magazine’s price tag of $50 trillion. Underdevelopment and poverty have been imposed on much of the world by #imperialist #military #force and #economic #leverage for more than a century. The stolen wealth is now concentrated in the hands of the tiny group of billionaires that have profited immensely — as a class — from the control of oil markets. That stolen wealth is key to mitigating climate change.
The world is being told to put its faith in international agreements to solve the crisis. The #ParisClimateAgreement is supposed to oblige each participating country to limit greenhouse gases and commit rich nations — and in some cases private corporations — to help fund efforts by poor nations with $100 billion per year in grants, loans and other forms of financing, to help them switch to clean energy.
That agreement still shifts the blame to the poorest countries, when in fact 20 industrialized countries are responsible for 78% of greenhouse gases.
Historically, no country has put more carbon dioxide into the air than the imperialist U.S. #empire. The ultimate goal of the Paris Agreement is to limit greenhouse gases to a 2% increase per year, and “if possible” to 1.5% per year. As of today, the rich countries haven’t come up with the first $100 billion that was due in 2018.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-july-2021
#Capitalism is a #roadblock on the path to mitigating this huge crisis for #humankind. It will take a #global #environmental #movement that is #revolutionary — #conscious of the need to #eradicate imperialism — to stop the crisis of global warming and climate change ~
#scottscheffer #climate-emergency #climate-action #climate-crisis #climate-change #climate-strike
Data Storage Fabrication: Chancery Papermaking
By hand, traditional process. Three people. 1,500 sheets per day.
How much paper or data do you use or create daily?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=e-PmfdV_cZU
#Paper #TraditionalCrafts #Manufacturing #DataStorage #Video
