Sustainable Cities, Sustainable World: Rebecca Long-Bailey for Labour Leader; Angela Rayner for Deputy
A blog about the environment, sustainability, ecology, ethics, politics, green issues and backing the Labour Party by Glenn Vowles…
A blog about the environment, sustainability, ecology, ethics, politics, green issues and backing the Labour Party by Glenn Vowles…
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) embody the desire for development, but also the rebranding and exacerbation of (capitalist) sustainable development. In their new article in Sustainability Science, Mary Menton, Carlos Larrea, Sara Latorre, Joan Martinez-Alier, Mike Peck, Leah Temper and Mariana Walter (2020), review and analyze the SDGs in relation to (an expansive reading of) environmental justice. Menton and colleagues give credit to the SDGs where it is due, while highlighting an enormous list of issues to be addressed. The SDGs promote projects such as hydroelectric dams, wind energy (factories) and conservation areas that have resulted in serious ecosystem degradation and injustice against people, as catalogued by the Environmental Justice Atlas.
San Francisco will be returning to single-use bags while temporarily banning reusable totes as a sanitary measure, numerous sources reported. …
IN the US alone, one estimate suggests 500 million straws are used every day, according to National Geographic. One study, published earlier this year, estimated as many as 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world’s beaches.
Local First Arizona has a new environmental certification to encourage sustainability among local businesses in the state. The Local First Arizona (LFA) Green Business Program is a certification for locally-owned businesses of all sizes that want to reduce their impact on the environment.
Webinar is for the Finnish companies and organizations interested in Indonesia’s opportunities.
The federal government of Canada announced on June 10th their national plan to address single-use plastic pollution.The goals of this plan are set to be achieved as early as 2021,…