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Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa

DeSmogBlog

Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA).

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

In the San Francisco Bay Area, rising groundwater threatens to spread contamination that can evaporate and rise into the air inside homes, schools, and workplaces. Armenta, who was working for a local environmental justice organization at the time, was deeply concerned, but not surprised, by the news.

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Sustainable Food Management Checklist: Getting Started Guide for the Office Cafeteria

Green Business Bureau

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The project’s supporters assert diverting the river to its historic path and unleashing the power of nature will result in the creation of 21 square miles of new submerged land in the basin’s wetlands over the next 50 years. It hails the MBSD project as a key element of its $50 billion master plan to do just that.

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The search for the source of plastic pollution

Grist

Recently, international attention has homed in on the problem, which is only growing worse as plastic doesn’t decompose but degrades into smaller pieces that will remain in the environment for thousands of years. explains Heather Trim, executive director of Zero Waste Washington, an organization that helped develop the protocol.

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Why Tyson Ventures is Investing in Sustainability and the Internet of Food

AFN Sustainable Protein

In alternative proteins, we look at fungal-based, algae-based, and of course seafood businesses. Red Bull is not an energy drink business; it’s a marketing company that happens to sell an energy drink. They just happen to sell an energy drink. We’re also looking at disruptive revenue models.

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Why Tyson Ventures is Investing in Sustainability and the Internet of Food

AFN Sustainable Protein

In alternative proteins, we look at fungal-based, algae-based, and of course seafood businesses. Red Bull is not an energy drink business; it’s a marketing company that happens to sell an energy drink. They just happen to sell an energy drink. We’re also looking at disruptive revenue models.