As demand for retail sustainability grows and as companies are held accountable for more sustainable products & practices, Amazon has found itself in the crosshairs. Walmart’s strategy of listening and leveraging the voice of the customer and aligning the right sustainable practices is paying off.
Source: www.forbes.com
Part I: Instead of maximising growth and profit and making products obsolete by design, the goal is to capture all the value we create.
The natural world is a beautiful and intricate system of intertwined and overlapping materials ecosystems.
Most of us on earth now live in cities. By 2050, more than two-thirds of us will. And by the end of this century, demographers predict, 85% of the world’s population will live in cities. By then, demographers estimate, cities like Lagos in Nigeria and Mumbai in India will have 60 million or more inhabitants, and much of the world’s urban growth will be in Africa. What will this mean for climate change, and how will climate change affect growing urban populations? Much depends on whether smart decisions are made now about how expanding cities develop, and how existing cities—especially in energy-intensive countries like the United States—adjust to be more climate-friendly.
Rising environmental concern over disposable plastic items has seen “single-use” become the people’s choice for the Macquarie Dictionary word of the year.
Continent by continent and country by country our lives came to a grinding halt when the pandemic started spreading around the world. Movement of people, goods, and services were drastically reduced. By April, the number of air travelers dropped over 80% compared to the year prior, and at some point more than half of the world’s airplanes were grounded. Automobile traffic fell 70% in countries under lockdown orders. All of this in an effort to battle the virus and flatten the curve.
Make your laundry routine a bit more gentle on the environment with these eco-friendly laundry tips, including which water setting you should use to save energy….