How to stop using single-use plastic
How to stop using single-use plastic like kitchen items, toiletries, and coffee cups, as well as the benefits of going plastic-free.
Source: matadornetwork.com
How to stop using single-use plastic like kitchen items, toiletries, and coffee cups, as well as the benefits of going plastic-free.
Source: matadornetwork.com
This course on school gardens will provide students with interdisciplinary approaches on how to make our food system more sustainable and just by connecting students to local elementary schools. Through the school garden, Lab students will support an elementary school’s environmental and nutritional education curriculum. Lab students will use their experiences to create a model for state policy on gardens in school. As part of our intellectual scaffolding for understanding the importance of school gardens at the intersection of food justice, environmental justice, and climate justice, students will investigate the problems with the modern food system and how it exacerbates inequalities, for example, health outcomes and children’s performance in school. In this Lab, we will look at food and food systems to get at some of the fundamental justice questions raised and then how school gardens might be part of the solution to those inequities. Fulfills (HU or SB) general studies requirements.
The priority issues covered by the sustainability agenda of companies are being driven more by risk management than value creation.
“While DLF is the only real estate company from India to be included in the DJSI index, it joins the ranks of just 11 companies from India to be recognised for the benchmark for Corporate Sustainability,” the company said in a statement.
Grocer encouraging adoption of reusable bags before 2020 transition…
Nations have agreed to “significantly” curb items such as plastic bags and straws by 2030. Environmentalist groups warn the measures don’t go far enough, with the US reportedly blocking efforts for more radical action.
The beginning of 2020 has seen major European retailers increasing their sustainability focus. We look at some of the announcements here.