The word Sustainability seems to be on everyone’s agenda nowadays, which is a good development. In fact, it has gotten to a point that some businesses feel they won’t make sales or turnover if they don’t ‘greenwash’ their product or service line with the word ‘sustainability’ at the center of their marketing process. Some of […]
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Original post on One Green Planet Plastic pollution has become one of the biggest environmental problems we face today. Another alarming issue which needs our attention is food waste – billions of tons of food are thrown away and wasted in prosperous countries, often going to rot in landfills where they release tons of greenhouse gases over time. Those
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Original post on DW Ten thousand every year, 150 a day, three every hour – estimates on the number of species that become extinct in a given time period, vary wildly. But what everyone does agree on, is that they are being lost at a higher rate than would be the case if we humans were
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Original post on Ethical Corporation Barry Parkin, who is chief sustainability officer of Mars, Inc, and chairman of the World Cocoa Foundation, said in an interview with Ethical Corporation that the agreement, signed between 21 companies and the world’s biggest cocoa-producing countries, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, is unprecedented. “Those two countries account for around 60%
Original post on Innovation Toronto The new pump could facilitate high efficiency, low-cost thermal storage, providing a new way to store renewable energy generated by wind and solar power, and facilitate an improved process for generating hydrogen directly from fuels such as methane – without producing carbon dioxide. Use of ceramic components, normally considered too
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Original Post on Pm News Nigeria A group, the Billital Moroobe Association of Nigeria (BILPAN) warned on Monday that the anti-grazing law enacted in some states was a violation of the fundamental human rights of herdsmen. The group, which also call themselves Pastoralists, made the statement while speaking with newsmen in Dutse, Jigawa. The position
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Original post on The Guardian The chancellor, Philip Hammond, will announce in next week’s budget a “call for evidence” on how taxes or other charges on single-use plastics such as takeaway cartons and packaging could reduce the impact of discarded waste on marine and bird life, the Treasury has said. The commitment was welcomed by
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Original post on Popular Science The conservative city of Georgetown, Texas, runs on renewable energy. After all, wind and solar power are more predictable and easier to budget than oil and gas. Clean power pushes may be associated with more left-leaning cities, but Republican mayor Dale Ross called the switch to renewables a no-brainer. On November 14, Joe Brown, editor
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Original post on DW A group of European and South American astronomers announced on Wednesday that they had discovered a potentially habitable world at the “close” distance of just eleven light years outside our solar system. According to the European Southern Observatory, planet Ross 128b has a mass similar to Earth and “its surface temperature
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Lagos, we are screening Before The Flood this November and the last thing you want to do is miss it. This movie features Leonardo DiCaprio on a journey as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, traveling to five continents and the Arctic to witness climate change firsthand. He goes on expeditions with scientists uncovering the reality of
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