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How to start a community garden: Part 3

Low Impact

The ethics and principles of permaculture may help provide a blueprint for garden design. You should also build up a clear picture of the type, pH, and characteristics of the site’s soil. For a list of companies offering soil testing, or for more information on soil in your area, the Soil Association is a good source of information.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

In our previous Green Business Bureau article, titled Carbon Offsets Vs Carbon Credits: Addressing The Issues (The 5 Rules of Carbon Offsetting) , we discuss the rules that ensure offsets deliver the GHG emission reductions promised, and do so ethically. Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration.

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How to Select a Sustainability Certification for Your Business

Green Business Bureau

GRI certification is valid for two years and can be renewed by completing Continuing Education Units (CEUs). As an independent, third-party organization, GBI serves as an educational resource and certification provider for green construction projects around the world. Green Globes Professional (GGP).

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'To be moved is very different from learning': Can art inspire creative thinking to help deliver net zero?

Business Green

The 18 works in the exhibition encompassed visual art, sculpture, film, and sound, taking visitors on a journey through forests, soils, seas, cities, and innovations. Dubbed 'Sanctuary of the Unseen Forest', by Marshmallow Laser Feast and Andres Roberts, the work in question is the very first visitors saw upon entering the exhibition.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

It’s an easy way to capitalize on the ethical consumer. Greenwashing is more than a question of ethics. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. Through education we can understand these common marketing traps. Why is greenwashing a problem? “As

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Why we need some long-term thinking at Davos

Business Green

They must examine ways to decrease the use of all materials, improve resilience and minimise the negative environmental, health and social impacts associated with the extraction, use and end of life of these resources. EU policies should not simply be aimed at securing access, but also at minimising critical raw material needs.

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Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production

GreenBiz

Coffee companies claiming to be "ethical" or "sustainable" that refuse to pay a living wage to the farmers are fueling this longstanding human and environmental crisis. . When production is reduced, farmers may use more chemicals in the growing process, which harms the soil and water sources, further degrading the planet and human health.