Coffee Producers: Is the Carbon Cost Too High?
What’s the carbon cost of consuming 2 billion cups of coffee a day? How can we reduce the carbon impact of coffee?
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Environment, Lifestyle
SDG12: February 2022 Webinar Highlights With Rowan Blizzard
The THRIVE project would like to extend warm gratitude to Rowan Blizzard for his presentation at the February Thrivability Matters webinar. The focus of this webinar was the United Nations SDG12 – Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. Rowan presented on his forte – sustainability in housing and construction. About the Speaker Rowan grew up
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Potable water reuse: A sustainable water resource
Water is essential to life. Yet, despite being paramount to human survival, we use more than we have. In fact, the amount of water on Earth is not as plentiful as we think. Yes, our planet is covered by 70% of water. But only 2.5% of that is freshwater that we can drink. However, 99%
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Environment, Health, Strategy, Sustainability
The Secret to Reading Recycling Labels on Packaging
Recycling and recovering waste is widely discussed nowadays – there is no question about that. Common materials recovered from domestic and industrial rubbish include plastic, paper, glass, and metals. However, contamination is a major issue when it comes to recycling. Thankfully in October 2020, the campaign “Check it! Before You Chuck It!” clarifies the packaging’s
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Environment, Lifestyle, Society, Strategy, Sustainability
The ethics of fashion: When slow is good
Fast fashion is not just cheap clothing. It’s human exploitation, involving sweat factories. Here people, usually women, work for below minimum wage. Worse, these factories include abusive, unsafe and unsanitary conditions. Child labour is also not uncommon. Furthermore, the cost it places on the environment is disastrous. In fact, each step involved in creating a
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Environment, Lifestyle, Society, Sustainability
Doing More With Less: How Overconsumption Ruins our Planet
For many of us, overconsumption is a way of life. This desire to consume is ruining our planet. We need to do more with less, but how?
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Business, Environment, Lifestyle, Sustainability
Unpacking Packaging: What are Container Deposit Schemes?
Container deposit schemes encourage us to recycle. They work by collecting drink containers and giving refunds per item returned. So far, these schemes have been successful in Australia. In 2017, New South Wales started the Return and Earn program as the state’s container deposit scheme. It collected over 3.1 billion packaging containers in its first
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Environment, Innovation, Lifestyle, Society, Sustainability
Water Management: Is Desalination the Answer?
Water Management is a critical issue for Planet Earth. Did you know less than 3% of the Earth’s water is fresh drinking water? 71% of the planet’s surface is covered by water. Yet, the world suffers from water scarcity. Limited supply coupled with population growth is worsening the problem. Still, reports show that about 40%
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Environment, Sustainability
Consumerism, Sustainability and Thrivability
Consumerism, Sustainability and Thrivability are three deeply interlinked concepts. Let’s dive into a discussion to understand what they mean and how they are inter-connected. Consumption vs. Consumerism As humanity entered into the 21st century, it did so with the awareness that mass consumption is threatening human health, welfare, and other aspects of life (P.C. Stern,
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Business, Coronavirus, Energy, Environment, Government, Health, Innovation, Lifestyle, Society, Sustainability, Technology
Cactus leather: A prickly solution to a tough problem
The fashion industry is one of the highest contributors to air pollution, making up 10% of all carbon emissions (Wadia, 2020). Many apparel brands are trying to lessen their impact on the environment by using recycled textiles, implementing better agricultural techniques and finding alternative materials. One such sustainable practice has been performed by a brand
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Environment, Innovation, Lifestyle, Sustainability, Technology