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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. A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children "dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up." None of them attend school.

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

DeSmogBlog

Campaigns run by the AAA and Danish Crown are just two examples of the way in which the meat industry is increasingly turning to a playbook long used by other polluting sectors such as Big Oil and pesticide manufacturers , with the campaigns ultimately causing “confusion and delay,” NYU’s Jacquet argues. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Laying Down Our Markers

Elemental Excelerator

While a North Star defines the way toward your destination, you need an array of instruments and maps to ever arrive there. Hawaii is acutely aware of pollution in our oceans and waterways, killing wildlife, decimating coral reefs, and entering the human food chain. Not gradually and one at a time — urgently and all at once.

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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. A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children “dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up.”

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Zack Angelini, 29. Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts.

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The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down

Mearth

The Law provides, amongst other issues, for the fee arrangements and payment establishments that comprise the Brazilian Payment System. Bitcoin has had the same old array of tailwinds in its sails throughout its latest bull run. For perspective, in 2016 the United Kingdom used 304 terawatt hours in whole. And the U.S.