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Ice rink alternatives and their environmental impact

AGreenLiving

By 1843, a Punch magazine article featured the first artificial ice rink, “not of frozen water but of a slush of chemicals including hog’s lard and melted sulphur, which smelled abominably.” CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction. Synthetic ice is mainly composed of high-density polyethylene panels.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. One was the Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, an influential counterculture magazine. It’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe.”.