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Kate O’Neill

@kmoneill.bsky.social

Professor of global environmental governance and waste and discard studies, UC Berkeley

3,729 Followers  |  365 Following  |  16 Posts  |  Joined: 08.12.2023  |  1.5942

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A very helpful guide to terms we hear a lot these days....

03.11.2025 19:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Excited to read Decolonizing Environmentalism @pkashwan.bsky.social !

04.02.2025 03:31 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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How to make your home merry and bright in an environmentally friendly way Metallic tinsel, glittery ornaments, plastic holly that really stays green forever – they look good on your Christmas tree, holiday table, mantel or front door. They’re not such a good look for the pl...

This time I got to talk about holiday decorations! (another helpful hint - hold on to your decoration donations till October - Goodwill et al don't want to store them for the year for us!)
www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...

24.12.2024 17:36 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A tasty solution to packaging waste? Life cycle assessment of edible coffee cups Edible cups have been proposed as a solution to littering and plastic pollution arising from disposal of 500 billion beverage cups each year. We appli…

Life Cycle Analysis of edible coffee cups: as long as they are delicious! #nosingleuse #plastics
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

17.12.2024 21:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Science Fiction in the Anthropocene | Annual Reviews This article catalogs major recent trends in ecological science fiction (sf), focused primarily on sf published after the completion of N.K. Jemisin's paradigm-setting Broken Earth trilogy in 201...

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

16.12.2024 01:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New set of human rights principles aims to end displacement and abuse of Indigenous people through ‘fortress conservation’ Private conservation groups channel huge sums of money to parks and protected areas around the world, but often have failed to protect basic rights of Indigenous people living on those lands.

theconversation.com/new-set-of-h...

14.12.2024 22:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Crucial reading for students too

11.12.2024 00:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Unpacking plastic credits: Challenges to effective and just global plastics governance Amid growing concerns over plastic pollution and ongoing efforts to develop a global plastics treaty, this paper critically examines plastic credits as a compensatory measure for addressing plastic po...

Preprint, just in time for #INC5 of the #UNEP #plasticstreaty #plastictreaty negotiations, from @moon-sc.bsky.social and colleagues, on unpacking #plastic credits!
zenodo.org/records/1413...

22.11.2024 13:15 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Ghana becomes dumping ground for the world's unwanted used clothes An estimated 20 million people are thought to earn their livelihoods in the global waste industry by collecting, disposing, repairing or repurposing a wide range of materials and products. However, th...

Part 2 on global waste from PBS Newshour @pbsnews.bsky.social: Textiles
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

19.11.2024 04:32 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I still use Simone Pulver's 2002 article on industry coalition involvement in climate negotiations vs NGOs (better organized, more embedded): "Organizing Business: Industry NGOs in the Climate Debates." Greener Management International 39: 55-67.

16.11.2024 21:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That and some indication of how numbers translate into influence; not a perfect correlation by any means.

16.11.2024 20:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How 'donations' from the West are inundating Ghana with toxic waste When Americans no longer want a car, laptop or clothes, where do some of those goods go? Most end up in the Global South, where millions of people depend on repairing, dismantling or selling them for ...

I was interviewed for this piece on PBS Newshour, on the trade in discarded electronics:
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

16.11.2024 16:49 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 2

The reporting team did great investigative work!

15.11.2024 23:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who’s Attending COP29, the International Climate Summit? The U.N.’s annual climate conference has swelled over three decades, with governments, fossil fuel interests and others vying for influence.

For COP attendance nerds...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

14.11.2024 18:47 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Welcome to BlueSky everyone - really good to see new folks who aren't 'bots (!!). In the meantime, I am taking suggestions for a new grad course syllabus on Waste & Society #discardstudies #wastestudies

12.11.2024 21:23 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Recycling Class, by Manisha Anantharaman, just out from @mitpress.bsky.social

11.12.2023 15:31 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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