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Supply Chain Sustainability: Your 20-Tip Guide to Creating A Sustainable Supply Chain

Green Business Bureau

Tip #3: Choose materials that do not include toxins : Even materials that are biodegradable and recyclable can negatively impact the environment. Work with sustainable and ethical suppliers. Seek suppliers with ethical certifications such as the Fair Trade Foundation and Fair For Life.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. RECLAIMED LUMBER.

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

Green Business Bureau

The global food system is complex, requiring inputs from a diverse set of industries, such as agriculture, transportation logistics, plus marketing, and retail. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Our food supply chain has a high carbon footprint contributing to climate change.

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As ‘doomsday’ glacier melts, can an artificial barrier save it?

Grist

Meanwhile, some of his collaborators, fearing the logistical complications of such a task, are pondering an even more mind-bending idea. Opponents of the plans, including many glaciologists, say such outlandish proposals are a dangerous diversion from the real task of mitigating climate change by curbing carbon emissions.

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Retail Business Sustainability Guide: Retail Sustainability Initiatives and Trends

Green Business Bureau

This means retailers must seek new uses for AI, SaaS, and Internet Of Things (IoT) logistic solutions, and integrate these solutions to pass data from one tool to another. Yet, such negatives can be mitigated through the expansion of local fulfillment centers and consumer education on the importance of minimalism as previously discussed.

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. About Food What is food? This is called photosynthesis. Absolutely. Lab-Grown Meat.

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

Many experts and nonexperts alike consider the idea of deliberately mucking about with Earth’s climate systems to counteract centuries of mostly accidental mucking about in Earth’s climate systems ethically dubious and potentially highly dangerous. How would disputes about the negative impacts of any geoengineering regime be adjudicated?