Canada’s long-term sustainability tied to population growth
This reverberates into important measures like housing, transport, and education…
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This reverberates into important measures like housing, transport, and education…
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Plastic waste on the beach is now being used in packaging from totes to bulk containers. And if one pioneer has her way, this is only a start.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American throws away 4.4 pounds of trash every day.
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhoo.
Environment Minister Sussan Ley says Australia has been “blindsided” by a draft recommendation to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, suggesting the decision was politically motivated. The World Heritage Committee, which sits under UNESCO, has proposed moving the reef to the list because of the impact of climate change, and will consider the decision at a meeting in China, which is the chair, next month. Ms Ley described the decision as a “backflip” and said United Nations officials had assured the government the reef would not face this kind of recommendation before the July meeting. “We were blindsided by a sudden late decision,” she said.
The Microbiology Society is undertaking a project entitled A Sustainable Future as part of our 75th Anniversary, which aims to highlight the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to our members and empower them to use their research to evidence and impact the goals. Earlier this year, we put a call out to our members to submit case studies in the following three areas: antimicrobial resistance, soil health and the circular economy.
Electronic waste causes severe health and environmental concerns. They expose human to many ailments and also pollute the environment resulting in the death of many animals. Damaged electronics, electrical devices like computers, printers, batteries, and mobile phones are all types of electronic…