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March 2024 THRIVE Webinar Highlights Featuring Ute Michaela Arndt, Jessica Halim and Nidhi Sharma

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The THRIVE project expresses its heartfelt appreciation to Ute Michaela Arndt, Jessica Halim and Nidhi Sharma for their insightful presentations at the March 2024 Thrivability Matters Webinar. This webinar focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG-3): Good Health and Well-Being & Sustainability Metrics. With their vast knowledge, our presenters caught our attention, highlighting crucial issues surrounding our […]

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Health, Lifestyle, Sustainability, THRIVE News
We need more robust social isolation strategies.

Social Isolation Strategies: How To Enhance Social Wellbeing

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Reducing social isolation and enhancing wellbeing through social inclusion involves creating social isolation strategies, policies, and initiatives. These actions need to promote equitable access to opportunities and resources for all individuals and communities. This needs to be the case regardless of their background or circumstances. Contextual social norms influence the development of social inclusion and

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Coronavirus, Society, Strategy

Green Economics: Signalling and Green Consumption

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Green consumption has become an increasingly popular trend for individuals and businesses alike. This is because it promotes sustainable development and reduces negative environmental impacts. Signalling theory is an economic concept that explains how individuals and organisations use signals to indicate their intentions to others. Signalling is an important part of green economics. Green economics

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Business, Lifestyle, Sustainability
The SBRC is the first building in Australia to achieve International Living Building Challenge compliance.

The Living Buildings Challenge: Driving Sustainable Cities

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Some of the most important emerging challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the evolution of our cities and buildings. It is now widely acknowledged the we must change the way we design buildings in order to tackle changing environmental conditions (Richard Hyde, 2018). The living buildings challenge is a thorough and holistic green building

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Innovation, Society, Sustainability
African cities like Nairobi face many challenges in their quest to create ideas for a sustainable city.

Green Future: African Ideas for a sustainable City

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Ideas for a sustainable city are top of mind for many countries when it comes to planning for the future. Sustainable cities enhance the economic, socio-cultural, environmental, technological, institutional, and governance structures using strategic guidelines and components (Cepeliauskaite and Stasiskiene 2020). They are resilient to social, economic, and natural shocks and built to be environmentally

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Government, Innovation, Society, Strategy, Sustainability

The Secret to Reading Recycling Labels on Packaging

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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

Vertical Farming: The Urban Plant Factories

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Vertical farming involves growing crops in vertically stacked layers under controlled conditions. These farms usually grow crops without soil or light. Vertical farms are also known as plant factories. At present, over 50% of the population live in urban areas worldwide. It is predicted that by 2045 the global urban population will increase by 1.5

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Innovation, Science, Sustainability, Technology

Unpacking Packaging: What are Container Deposit Schemes?

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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
Van Life THRIVE

Is Van Life Sustainable? The Truth About Life on the Road

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Van life has a reputation that conjures up imagery of a free-spirited, eco-friendly lifestyle — something in total opposition to the world of mega-mansions and over-consumption. But is van life really that sustainable? There has been a huge increase in van living throughout recent years. The hashtag #vanlife on Instagram has over 7 million posts,

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Innovation, Lifestyle, Sustainability

A sustainable living guide that’s affordable for students

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When we think of sustainable living, we may picture sleek electric cars, a roof covered in solar panels or the latest water saving washing machine. But if you’re a student, these eco-friendly products may just be too expensive. But don’t worry! There are plenty of ways you can live an environmentally-friendly lifestyle that’s affordable AND

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Environment, Lifestyle, Sustainability
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