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Ethical Fashion: 3 Things To Know About Sustainable Clothing Printing

The Environmental Blog

Industry: plant for textile printing. With consumer awareness and consciousness shifting toward sustainable fashion, businesses in the clothing industry began to focus on making brands ethical. Also, it adheres to the corporate social responsibility of ethical supply chain and anti-exploitative labor standards.

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How Modern Poultry Farming Practices Contribute to a Sustainable Environment

The Environmental Blog

On the other hand, climate-controlled environments enhance the well-being of the birds and reduce energy usage by optimizing temperature, humidity, and ventilation. Energy Consumption Modern poultry farms have taken substantial strides in energy conservation. Poultry farms are also using renewable energy.

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Green Your Workplace With These Eco-Friendly Office Products and Supplies

Green Business Bureau

But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. Energy Star offers a variety of certified electronics such as computers , monitors , TVs and telephones. 100% of HP’s original ink cartridges contain 5% – 45% post-consumer or post-industrial recycled plastic.

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Sustainable funerals: Part 1 – with Ethical.net

Low Impact

Planning a sustainable funeral means rejecting environmentally damaging practices and finding more ethical and responsible options. But there is a growing awareness that cremation (as currently carried out) is not a sustainable option: Energy use and emissions. Globally, cremation emits over 6.8 But is burial any better?

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Ethiopia’s Record-Breaking Day of Tree Planting

Unsustainable

(This article is reposted from The Earthbound Report, a blog which deftly addresses equity amongst all the world’s peoples, protection of all non-human life, and ethical responses to the challenges that face our planet.) words Jeremy Williams A hundred years ago Ethiopia was a forest nation, with over 40% of its land forested.

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Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

And regular usage – about 2000 active traders per week. A big focus is on building social work / public food / training in permaculture and agroforestry etc. The concept of cash being better than building things and doing things locally. It could be amazingly powerful. Most land in Kenya was fertile soil 200 years ago.

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

Soil degradation. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Carbs are our fuel, protein and fat are the building blocks of our cells. Deforestation.