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Dozens of Ad & PR Industry Directors Have Ties to Heavily Polluting Industries

DeSmogBlog

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog’s analysis reveals that half of these directors have connections to polluting industries. None of the directors, other holding groups, or other companies responded.

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Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain

GreenBiz

The complexity of tracking and tracing all these ingredients can obscure detrimental environmental and social impacts, from pollution to bribery to slavery. People buy it just like they buy cocoa from West Africa: It has that special profile that they're looking for. None of them attend school.

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Why Google products are getting an eco-focused upgrade

Business Green

With consumer recycling queries on Google Search increasing by over 150 per cent since 2016, we recognise that people want to recycle but can struggle to find the right places to do so - let alone what can be recycled where. Matt Brittin is president of Google for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. The average American spends $2,392 per year on food while the average Kenyan spends $543 per year on food (World Economic Forum, 2016). square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction.

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Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain

AGreenLiving

The complexity of tracking and tracing all these ingredients can obscure detrimental environmental and social impacts, from pollution to bribery to slavery. “People buy it just like they buy cocoa from West Africa: It has that special profile that they’re looking for. None of them attend school.

Ethics 28
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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Cohen, forward by Bill McKibben, 2016 Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet, edited by Julie Dunlap and Susan A.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

AGreenLiving

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. The average American spends $2,392 per year on food while the average Kenyan spends $543 per year on food (World Economic Forum, 2016). square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction.

Health 28