Raj Patel: How to Cure an Inflamed World
Intensive farming, abuse of fertilisers and chemicals, deforestation and the food industry provoke irreparable damage to our planet and to our bodies. To get out of it, as Raj Patel puts it, extract...
ICLEI’s journey towards circular procurement
No doubt a circular demand creates opportunities for a circular supply. But how is it possible to integrate closed loop criteria in public procurement, a share that represents nearly 14% of the GDP ...
Sustainability is a cup of coffee traveling around the world
Coffee is perhaps the most international of all products. The Lavazza Group, a Pure Coffee Company present in more than 140 countries and committed to an ecological transition capable of responding ...
Lost in the Supermarket: Retail and the Sustainability Challenge
I'm all lost in the supermarket I can no longer shop happily The ClashThe retail sector wants to change. It is a need dictated by the times, from macroeconomic and political scenarios to factors rel...
Europe under fire as rubber industry is destroying African forests
Fueled by European demand, the rubber industry is allegedly responsible for massive deforestation in West-Central Africa quantified at 520 km2 since 2000, says a report released by the NGO Global Wi...
Architects of Ecosystems: Will Fungi Shape Our Sustainable Future?
Using fungi and their extraordinary characteristics to “grow” construction materials and degrade pollutants: this is the vision underpinning many studies that soon may lead to real applications ...
United Nations: the environment is now a universal human right
In late July, the United Nations General Assembly recognized access to a clean and healthy environment as a universal human right. This new right will be critical in addressing the threefold planeta...
(Un)sustainable fashion: H&M is being sued for greenwashing
Swedish fast fashion giant H&M has come under indictment for greenwashing. The plaintiff was American marketing student Chelsea Commodore, who took the case to federal court in New York last Ju...
Is advanced recycling the answer to plastic waste?
It’s an undeniably compelling notion: Take waste plastics of all types and turn them back into the building blocks for new plastics, indistinguishable from the same molecules made from petroleum a...
China launches anti-erosion black soil campaign
China is stepping up efforts to protect black soil, the fertile land intended to fulfill a major share of its food demand. “Chinese lawmakers are considering a draft black soil conservation law th...
This is how algae-produced cement could avoid 2 billion tons of CO2
Growing cement instead of manufacturing it. The idea comes from a team of U.S. researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, who, inspired by coral reef algae, have come up with the idea of imi...
The biodiversity crisis: a war in the mirror
Three years after the publication of the report highlighting the devastating impact human activities have on biodiversity and ecosystems, the International Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Servic...
How to develop a textile recycling industry in Europe: Euratex's plan
The end of 2024: meaning, two and a half years from now. This is the deadline that the states of the European Union have set for organizing and implementing mandatory separate collection of textile ...
WorldGBC launches Circularity Accelerator, for an increasingly circular construction industry
The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), a global network of national Green Building Councils – nonprofit associations made up of companies and organizations working in the sustainable buildin...
From recycled wood, a material that is stronger than steel
Recycling wood waste, including wood chips and sawdust, to turn it into a building material even more durable than steel. Phrased that way, it almost sounds as incredible as the discovery of the phi...
Superworms like styrofoam, and that's great news for plastic recycling
The gastronomic preferences of a beetle larvae open new avenues for the circular economy of plastics. From Australia has come news that the larvae of the Zophobas morio beetle, also known as superwo...
Open source as a common good: the Fiware Global Summit is back
The eighth edition of the Fiware Global Summit is making a stop in Spain, more precisely in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, from the 14th to the 15th of September.It is one of the reference events for i...
How fashion brands can ensure a more sustainable supply chain
A sustainable supply chain relies on three contributory factors: social, environmental and financial. The trend towards throwaway fashion has meant that the industry has not previously been particul...
The Power of Water
Mitigation and adaptation to climate change are pushing States such as the Netherlands to equip themselves with actual water diplomacy. Blue gold is thus becoming a precious factor connecting intern...
Water
When pondering on the complexities of sustainable development, sometimes we fail to include a priority index. Should climate change or pollution from microplastics rank first? Is it more important t...