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RSPB expands Fair to Nature certification scheme

Business Green

Food brands and supermarkets who support Fair to Nature and agree to buy from certified farms and can display the Fair to Nature logo on the packaging of certified products, ensuring consumers are able to make positive choices to spend their money in support of restoring critical farm ecosystems and wildlife habitats.

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Your Pet and Your Planet

Sustainability Consulting

When choosing to purchase food or other items for your pet, look to see if the brand uses natural, non-GMO, ethically-sourced ingredients. Invest the time to look at the product’s packaging, consider the energy needed to produce it, and research whether it’s biodegradable or can be recycled.

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A beginners’ guide to farmers’ markets: Part 1

Low Impact

Why farmers’ markets are good for shopping ethically. By contrast, farmers’ markets have greater transparency and a much shorter chain between food production and consumer, making them a more ethical choice for shoppers. In the modern world, there is often a disconnect between food production and those who eat the end result.

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Green Your Workplace With These Eco-Friendly Office Products and Supplies

Green Business Bureau

Bic has partnered with TerraCycle, however, to offer a Stationary Recycling Program that accepts all brands of empty writing instruments, glue sticks, and flexible packaging. And when it comes to buying coffee, the life-giving bean juice that we all love, you should always look for ethical brands with the Fair Trade label.

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Sustainable Food and Eco-Friendly Food Packaging

Green Business Bureau

Conventional food production of the modern day, along with packaging and distribution, has been tied to environmental, societal and financial burdens in different parts of the world. Food miles, the distance food is transported, and eco-friendly food packaging materials are also important variables of the sustainable food equation.

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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

Emissions from farm to table to landfill Emissions are generated at every stage of the food system, from the production of food on farms to transport and refrigeration to processing and packaging to consumer dietary choices and, ultimately, to food waste. Seventy percent of total food system emissions come from land-use change.

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Great ways to reduce plastic use in your home: Part 3 – around the home

Low Impact

Plastic packaging is, of course, not the end of the story; most of us also have a huge array of plastic items in our homes. While some plastic fabrics may be more ethical and better for the environment than the alternative (in the case of fur, leather, and some other animal-derived products), they cause their own huge problems.

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