Selling produce that does not meet cosmetic retail standards is one-way companies are working to reduce waste. Examples include the Eco-Friendly line from Church Bros. and the Misfits line from Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Robinson Fresh. The industry has also worked to avoid sending more material than necessary to landfills. “A 10-acre facility on Limoneira property […]
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Original post on Washington Post The historian Arnold Toynbee famously argued that the well-being of a civilization can be judged by its ability to respond to human and environmental challenges. The Donald Trump administration’s full-throttle reverse course aimed at renewing fossil fuels as the chief source of energy — as the planet faces the droughts,
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In the United States, Iguanas have been falling from trees for the opposite reason. It’s too cold! Florida, which is used to tropical heat all year round, has seen temperatures fall to near freezing and suddenly the green lizards have been tumbling from the trees left and right. The good news is they aren’t dead – at least not all of
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We read in the papers that HYPREP (Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project) visited some communities in Ogoni recently and promised that clean-up will commence in earnest. Has the clean-up exercise started yet? What they did that time was to gather data and process some documentation. I am not with them in the office but
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Since his inauguration, the South Korean President Moon Jae-in has canceled six nuclear plants in his bid to make South Korea more eco-friendly. Following the promise to keep SK eco-friendly, the government- represented by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, Paik Un-gyu- announced the country’s new plans to boost the use of solar energy and convert
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Original post on TheNational, UAE edition Every year, the UAE welcomes the world’s leading voices in renewable energy and sustainability for Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW). Much has changed in the decade since the event started. At the first World Future Energy Summit in 2008, Abu Dhabi issued a call to action to help catalyse the development
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In celebration of the 2017 International Peace Day on 21st September 2017 which coincided with the 72nd United Nations General Assembly meeting. The United Nations Association of Nigeria (UNAN), United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Lagos and Department of International Law and Jurisprudence, University of Lagos held a symposium on the theme ‘Together for PEACE- Respect,
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The aim of the inaugural summit which was held in commemoration of the International Youth Day was to get youths involved in NGOs to form a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Coalition. The communique for the summit can be found here. The programme commenced at about 9:30 a.m with delegates networking. The United Nations Information Centre
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So the United Nations put up a post called The Lazy Man’s Guide to Saving the World; me having nothing to do on Valentine’s day (#ForeverAloneGang), I read the post as decided to “Nigerian-ize” (see what I did there I made up a word!) the post. The term Sustainability broken down is Sustain and Ability
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Attending the Social Good Summit and the entire experience of travelling to New York for sustainability work was truly inspiring for me. I kept adding #JesusDidIt to my pictures because I had no idea that everything would eventually work out for my good. Day 1 of Social Good had me as the very first registrant
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