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The Business Benefits of Better Waste Management & Recycling

The Environmental Blog

There are several ways that a company can make its operations more sustainable and green. In this blog post, we’ll explain why managing your company’s waste is essential, how you can do it without breaking the bank, and what benefits you can expect from doing so.

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Busting waste and recycling myths

Envirotec Magazine

Whether you’re a happy-go-lucky ‘wish-cycler’ – tossing waste in the hope it can be recycled – or one who routinely agonizes over different diameters of plastic wrapping, there’s no harm in picking up a clearer understanding of the whole process. Food residue left on containers cannot be reliably processed.

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Community energy, mutual credit and the mutualist economy

Low Impact

Here we talk about community energy, mutual credit and mutualisation of the economy. I’m interviewing so many great people doing brilliant things in their communities, from social care co-ops and cycle courier co-ops, housing co-ops and IT co-ops, and I’m slightly obsessed with how to knit this new economy together.

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

Low Impact

I think you have something like 40,000 trading members, with $2.5 We tried, but they didn’t really take off. There are cases where someone is going to buy tomatoes and she doesn’t have money, so she uses tokens – but she might come back later and buy those tokens back with cash. Why community currencies?

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Building the Credit Commons with Mutual Credit Clubs: Matthew Slater

Low Impact

We’ve been talking about mutual credit on Lowimpact for a while now – the position is that humanity is on a very destructive path, which will be impossible to get off as long as we have this money system. So if your answers are too complicated, I want to try to break them down and simplify them.

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Review of ‘A Small Farm Future’ by Chris Smaje

Low Impact

But does it have to be that way? Could and should we build a new kind of food system based on small farms? Author Chris Smaje joined the board of the Ecological Land Co-op as I was leaving it a few years ago, so although we haven’t worked together, we exchanged emails about some of the content for the book.

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Companies Must Find the Courage to Back Up Statements on Climate Action

Andrew Winston

The budget bill, with massive and needed investment in climate action, is still being held up, in part because it pays for it by rolling back tax breaks to companies — so many of our climate leaders, including tech giants, are staying silent and watching as the U.S. Hundreds have committed to using only renewable energy.

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