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An Ethical Guide to Toilet Paper

The Environmental Blog

Trees perform a vital task in storing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. When they are cut down, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. The logging industry is one of the most environmentally destructive forces humans have unleashed on our planet. Fortunately, there are other options.

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Embracing the suck

Envirotec Magazine

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. At present DAC is very expensive, although a number of groups appear to be logging price decreases and significant improvements in their methods.

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Motorcycle parts from GPR Italia are recyclable

AGreenLiving

GPR’s Impact Zero Project focuses on creating high-quality products that are efficient, recyclable and manufactured to bring their carbon footprint down to zero. They have an extremely onerous energy consumption and negative environmental impact,” Orlandi said. All exhausts can be recycled when they’re no longer being used.

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Paper Packaging Brings Deforestation Risk, Say Indonesian Campaigners

DeSmogBlog

The Commission’s proposals have been met with a barrage of lobbying from industry, which claims that single-use paper products have lower carbon emissions and use less water and plastic than reusable alternatives. Indonesia has faced massive deforestation in the last half century due primarily to palm oil plantations and logging.

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8 positive environmental stories from 2021

AGreenLiving

Yet, there are countless stories of policy changes, local cleanup efforts, impactful corporate action and innovations all aimed at decreasing carbon, conserving trees, protecting wildlife and so much more. There’s the issue with methane release, a greenhouse gas that’s more damaging than carbon dioxide. It stores more than 1.5

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Can the 150-year old London Metal Exchange broker a low-carbon future?

Business Green

What role do metals exchanges have in driving a sustainable transition to a low-carbon economy? Meanwhile, the LME's digital climate disclosure platform is now more than a year old, with producers of listed brands invited to log their climate credentials, alongside artisanal miners looking to prove their sustainability credentials.

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