Companies Incentivizing Employees To Live Greener, Promote Sustainability
How are companies encouraging environmentalism as a lifestyle in its employees?
Source: goodmenproject.com
How are companies encouraging environmentalism as a lifestyle in its employees?
Source: goodmenproject.com
Starting on Wednesday (May 15), the Italian island of Capri will be issuing fines of up to €500 to anyone caught violating a new ban on single-use plastics.
Last year, the Swedish Fashion Council made an unprecedented move while planning the annual Stockholm Fashion Week: They canceled the event entirely, citing concerns about its environmental impact. Not everyone in fashion is taking such drastic measures, of course, but it spoke to the urgent need for action on the issue, one that designers and customers alike are now recognizing.
Elizabeth May, leader of Canada’s Green Party, said she was “completely shocked” after her party doctored a photograph to show her holding a reusable cup.
Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) and ENM-enabled products have emerged as potentially high-performance replacements to conventional materials and chemicals. As such, there is an urgent need to incorporate environmental and human health objectives into ENM selection and design processes.
The home decor experts at Pinterest predict that these will be the top trends in the new year.
Women have always been central to the environmental justice movement. In many parts of the world, women live closest to the earth and must deal with the effects of environmental degredation due to industry and/or climate change. There is a causal interrelationship between gender inequalities and environmental degradation; where the loss of biodiversity, ecosystems and climate change tend to exacerbate existing gender inequalities, which means that the negative impacts of these phenomena are greater on women, placing them, along with girls, in a position of vulnerability where their livelihoods, assets and health are affected.