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We speak to Jordy Kay from Great Wrap, Jeanine Hourani from Road to Refuge, and Nick Chiarelli and Tim Silverwood from the Ocean Impact Organisation to find out how they’r e creating waves when it comes to social justice and the planet
Great Wrap
Have you ever thought about how much cling wrap the hospitality industry uses on any given day? How much wrap do you think wineries use to encase their pallets of wine? What about non-hospitality businesses, which ship billions of pallets around the world each year? The answer is a lot. A single winery, in fact, can use up to 3.5 million metres of plastic wrap in a single year. So while using reusable alternatives at home is great, industrial waste is still a huge problem and we need bigger and more scalable solutions if we’re really going to make an impact. Bank Australia customer Jordy Kay has one of those sol
A group of young women toast the end of Prohibition in the luxury liner SS Manhattan, off New York, 1933. Before its repeal, the ship s bar was required to close 12 miles out from the U.S. coast. FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Drinking has been so widespread throughout history that Patrick McGovern, an archaeological chemist at the University of Pennsylvania, called it a universal language in an Economist article. Indeed, you re hard-pressed to find a culture or event in history that alcohol (or lack of it) didn t feature in some way.
In a sense, alcoholic beverages are just a simple matter of chemistry and physiology. When yeast cells consume carbohydrates in grains, vegetables or fruits, they produce a fluid called
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Scientists have proven a mammal that was believed to be a whale subspecies is actually a new species entirely, and the new species is critically endangered.
The expedition’s goal was to find an already known species of beaked whale,
Perrin’s beaked whale, and confirm its acoustic sounds. Now, the researchers believe they may have found the 24th species of beaked whales known to researchers.
Join NBC 7 as Barlow and Henderson chronicle their expedition and recount the exciting moments of their research voyage in
Uncovered Underwater: A New Species of Beaked Whale.
You can watch the video above, or on the NBC 7 app on Apple TV, Roku, or YouTube.
The research voyage was through Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, aboard the organization’s vessel the “Martin Sheen” pictured here. Photo Credit: Sea Shepherd / CONANP