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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

The medicines that Synterex writes about come from a wide variety of therapeutic areas such as allergy, cancer, vaccines, nervous system disorders, and rare diseases. Every day, Synterex employees work with the hope of helping to get medicines to patients who need them to improve their quality of life.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. Cascade Steel also commits to ethical sourcing and conflict-free metals , fully disclosing that their products are derived solely from recycled or scrap sources. RECYCLED PLASTIC. RECLAIMED LUMBER. Thomas provides an online directory for scrap metal suppliers across the U.S.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Hurst’s causes outside Amazon include board positions with Stolen Youth, an organization dedicated to eradicating sex trafficking; as well as with the roundtable for sustainability that’s part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. million pounds of plastic, or 60 million bottles. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. In New York’s state lands, he added, there are almost no provisions for gathering medicines, collecting food, or growing food in traditional territories. (Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

And despite its many shortcomings, plastic continues to take market share from leather. This may not be the meat our fathers will eat, but with no antibiotics, chemicals, or ethical objections, it may be the meat our children will eat. Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors.