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Sustainable alternatives to garden lawns: Part 1

Low Impact

An eco-friendly and ethical life involves taking control of your needs, and working out how to meet them without harming either other people or the planet. Provide other yields, such as fuel for heating, timber, and natural materials for crafting and DIY projects, herbal medicines, etc. They aim to make ethical the new normal.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. Choosing reclaimed wood reduces the fossil fuel use and pollution that comes from clearing and processing trees into lumber. and the non-psychoactive relative to marijuana) is a versatile crop grown specifically for industrial and medicinal uses. RECLAIMED LUMBER. in one hour.

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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. One such project is their efficient cookstoves in Burundi.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West. Instead, he believed the land was improved by ethical and sustainable management. The runoff can pollute watersheds with ash and harm water-treatment facilities. The implications extend nationwide. Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

The key insight driving our investment thesis is that for thousands of years animals have been employed as a technology to provide valuable products and services including transportation, communications, energy, labor, clothing, medicine, and of course food. The invention of the car came with urban sprawl, pollution, and over 1.25

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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. Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer, HP Inc. . For HP Inc.,