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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER.

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Ethical Fashion: 3 Things To Know About Sustainable Clothing Printing

The Environmental Blog

Industry: plant for textile printing. With consumer awareness and consciousness shifting toward sustainable fashion, businesses in the clothing industry began to focus on making brands ethical. However, they’ve been known to produce large volumes of chemicalized wastewater, consequently polluting drainage systems when disposed of.

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Autonomous Draper Drone to detect microplastics in the water

AGreenLiving

Microplastic pollution is everywhere, but its size — less than five millimeters in length — makes the threat almost invisible to the naked eye. Microplastics are created in one of two main ways: the breakdown of larger plastic debris, or from industries that make small plastic particles such as microfibers in clothing and microbeads.

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Tires are saving us — and killing us, too

The Verge: Energy

Every major tire manufacturer globally is raising its game — not only in terms of performance in the face of bigger, heavier electric cars but also in terms of environmental impact. Virtually every tire manufacturer is making at least token efforts to increase the usage of sustainable materials like guayule. In time, at least.

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Against the grain

Envirotec Magazine

Microplastics are everywhere: We know that much. Certification schemes aim to provide some assurance that products like compost and digestate are safe for human, animal and plant health. Even the definition of “microplastics” is slippery. And not all rivers carry the same load of microplastics. But should we be worried?

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Ranked: The 12 best ways to get cars out of cities

Business Green

The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. A principal cause of stress-inducing noise pollution and life-shortening air pollution in European cities. Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal.

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Top five green innovations to watch in 2022

Business Green

We have a fantastic opportunity as we recover from the pandemic to build an economy and society which is greener, fairer and more resilient. Petit Pli is tackling the wasteful and unethical fast fashion industry by extending the lifecycle of clothing, creating children's clothes that ‘grow' as they do. Tyre Collective.