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

GreenBiz

In particular, our exchange explored how food systems can be made healthier and more sustainable as we look to a future in which we’ll need to find a way to produce enough food to nourish as many as 10 billion people while staying within planetary boundaries. We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

Makower: So, what was the path from there to sustainable design? Hannover had just won the World's Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. They asked me to write the design principles for that World's Fair based on our work in sustainability. Center for Sustainable Development, based out of Portland.

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

Low Impact

I’m from the US originally, and I came here with the Peace Corps about 12 years ago, and I’d read Bernard Lietaer’s books, and visited Berkshares and other places. Then in 2020, we’d been using third-party APIs to connect to the blockchain. Maybe that’s more transparent, but it hasn’t been sustainable.

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

AGreenLiving

In particular, our exchange explored how food systems can be made healthier and more sustainable as we look to a future in which we’ll need to find a way to produce enough food to nourish as many as 10 billion people while staying within planetary boundaries. We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

AGreenLiving

Makower: So, what was the path from there to sustainable design? Hannover had just won the World’s Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. They asked me to write the design principles for that World’s Fair based on our work in sustainability. I decided to build a solar-heated house.

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'Reconcile development and preservation': Inside Natura & Co's alternative vision for the Amazon

Business Green

Natura & Co sustainability executives sit down with BusinessGreen to discuss how the company balances profitability and sustainability, and why the Paris Agreement will fail unless the Amazon is protected. This is no small feat.