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Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain

GreenBiz

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children "dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up." It’s not a guarantee: In 2016, Lush discovered natural mica in a range of mica pigments it had been told were synthetic. (It None of them attend school.

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Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain

AGreenLiving

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children “dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up.” It’s not a guarantee: In 2016, Lush discovered natural mica in a range of mica pigments it had been told were synthetic. (It None of them attend school.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents many of the world’s biggest economies, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predict that global meat production will continue to rise in the coming decade as incomes increase in developing countries.

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Luminalt’s Jeanine Cotter: How Solar Loses Without a Diverse Workforce

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

For Cotter, this means when Luminalt has an entry-level position to fill, she first goes looking for new hires at community-based organizations, like Asian Neighborhood Design , an architecture and planning nonprofit that provides work training to help disadvantaged individuals become self-sufficient. Luminalt has 23 employees.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council. Myisha Majumder. Stacia Betley, 29.

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Europe’s Energy Transition: Can Renewable Energy Communities Lead To Greater Energy Justice?

Energy Innovation

19 February 2016. As van Brommel & Höffken, as well as Hoicka and colleagues , emphasize, policy must embrace a broad array of REC models in order to meet each community’s individual context while ensuring that REC structures aren’t coopted by corporate players seeking to take advantage of REC’s commercial potential.

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The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down

Mearth

Explore how others may try to disrupt your corporation with blockchain technology, and how your organization might use it to leap ahead as an alternative. ?Carving The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. And the U.S.