Episode 211: Sustainable consumption, victory in Virginia
Plus, why microgrids and indoor agriculture are a combination worth consideration.
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Plus, why microgrids and indoor agriculture are a combination worth consideration.
Source: www.greenbiz.com
Instead, editor-in-chief Emanuele Farneti commissioned artists to illustrate the fashion that appears in January’s magazine.
Analysis of S&P 500 companies finds that corporations with sustainability strategies outperform others on the index…
Innovation and lower costs have created an insatiable human appetite for electronic devices.
The digital revolution, in recent years, has gone into overdrive, which has led consumers to purchase additional – and mostly new – electronic devices. The outdated or extra ones offer no value, and are often jettisoned. This has led to an accumulation of electronic waste (e-waste). While a digitally connected world has unprecedented virtues and warrants the ubiquitous presence of electronic devices, it is, unfortunately, helping create an escalating torrent of waste.
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The numbers back the claim: the world produces as much as 50 million tonnes of e-waste a year – valued at over $62.5bn – outweighing all commercial aircraft ever constructed, a UN report in 2019 revealed.
Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow appointed to lead research exploring strategies to reduce outdoor air pollution in Uganda and promote healthy communities through evidence-based policies and citizen science.
At the International Solid Waste Association’s World Congress in Bilbao, Spain, the organisation’s president, Antonis Mavropoulos, explored how technology can help deliver a wasteless future.