Author Archives: Danielle Park

Out of sight out of mind has enabled plastic disaster

Being able to send trillions of tons of plastic waste out of sight, by shipping it to landfills in poorer countries, is an unsustainable disaster for our global environment.  Meanwhile companies producing the waste are extracting their profits free of … Continue reading

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Financial resilience requires conscious steps to break from the herd

The Wall Street Journal runs this week with a detailed expose on the crisis of insufficient savings and income among Baby Boomers.  This problem will be an enduring international preoccupation from here, as older folks battle young folks and other … Continue reading

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New Study: carbon bubble burst coming, ready or not

As OPEC ministers agreed to increase oil production again last week, a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change this month, shows that plunging renewable energy prices and rapidly increasing investment in low-carbon technologies could leave fossil fuel … Continue reading

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