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Enlarge / A stack of plant-based Impossible Burgers. (credit: Impossible Foods) If you’re an environmentally aware meat-eater, you probably carry at least a little guilt to the dinner table. The meat on our plates comes at a significant environmental cost through deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and air and water pollution—an uncomfortable reality, given the world’s […]
Data compiled by CBC News shows the four major hospitals in the region regularly at or over capacity in a stretch between April and November 2018.
Whether Tim Brown is on the field playing soccer or in the boardroom presenting ideas, his approach to success has always been straightforward: Have fun and work as a team. Brown is the co-founder of Allbirds, a San Francisco–based startup that manufactures sustainable footwear made out wool, eucalyptus fiber and sugar cane. From his early […]
LEGO/Press On August 1, LEGO launched their first sustainable building bricks. LEGO wants the majority of its production to be sustainable by 2030. The new bricks are made of sugarcane plastic and are shaped like plants. Danish toymaker LEGO has high ambitions for its sustainability program: by 2030, the company intends to manufacture most […]
Lego has introduced its first sustainable elements, but has along way to go before the other 98 percent of the line meets that goal. https://media.wired.com/photos/5aa1cceb1781756588507732/master/pass/SustainableLegos-web-2.jpg
IN 2008, when she was in her mid-20s and sitting on a $ 500m inheritance, Liesel Pritzker Simmons asked her bankers about “impact investing”. They fobbed her off. “They didn’t understand what I meant and offered to screen out tobacco,” recalls the Hyatt Hotels descendant, philanthropist and former child film star. So she fired her […]
General Motors buys a lot of tires. About 49 million a year, in fact. As part of its sustainability efforts, the automaker announced a goal of 100-percent sustainability for its natural rubber needs, and suppliers like Bridgestone, Continental, Goodyear, and Michelin – which were all represented at GM’s announcement this week in Detroit – are […]
This spring the high street has embraced sustainable approaches to fashion with leading brands launching new collections that pride themselves on their environmentally-friendly credentials. From reducing their carbon footprint to working with ethically produced fabrics, high street favourites including Mango and Zara have turned their attention to producing clothes and accessories that are ethical and […]
Stephen Freedman One of the largest financial firms in the world is positioning itself to be the greenest bank on Wall Street. UBS, which manages over 2.7 trillion Swiss francs ($ 2.7 trillion) has made sustainability the cornerstone of its business. As such, the bank has taken a number of steps to be the go-to firm […]
Enlarge / An artist’s rendering of what a 24-hour solar thermal plant at Tamarugal plant could look like. (credit: SolarReserve) The idea of sustainability is pretty simple: Manage our resources such that they can continue to support us indefinitely. And, for an individual resource, sustainability is simple. Avoiding something like depleting our groundwater means that […]
