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Cisco's Sustainability 101: What Is E-Waste?

3BL Media

Sustainability 101 is a blog series that you can turn to for information about different environmental terms that may come up at work, during discussions with friends, and even at your annual holiday gathering. Instead of helping you listen to music, they have now become what is sometimes referred to as e-waste.

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Disrupting Waste Management in Emerging Markets: Four Lessons for Strengthening Businesses While Empowering Women and Communities

James Militzer

This is especially relevant for the waste management sector , which is further burdened by negative connotations associated with being a garbage collector or working for a garbage collection company. Located in Nairobi, Junky Bins aims to mitigate environmental pollution and disease while fostering employment.

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Chefs could be the missing ingredient to circular food systems

GreenBiz

Food loss and waste, the carbon-intensive production and distribution of food, hunger and food deserts: These are just a few inefficient and unequal outcomes of today’s global food system. Biodiversity, conservation and a shift towards regenerative agriculture is just one piece of a holistic vision for a better food system.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

The way the world produces and consumes food causes huge environmental impacts, and yet 3 billion people worldwide are unable to afford a healthy diet, and up to a third of the food we produce is wasted. I am witnessing the increase in education ignite behavior changes in some communities: less meat; less waste; more conscious decisions. .

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Biomimicry Institute Invites Startups To Apply for 2025 Ray of Hope Accelerator

3BL Media

These visionaries have the potential to transform industries, restore ecosystems, and create a more regenerative future for all." Anderson Foundation , is particularly interested in solutions that regenerate nature, mitigate climate change, and eliminate the take, make, waste paradigm. For more information, visit biomimicry.org.

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Why collaboration is the missing ingredient in food system reform

GreenBiz

The industry’s environmental problems — waste, greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss — are real. The early 1970s saw increasing consumer interest in healthy food, but packaged food sold in the United States didn’t then include reliable nutrition information. Why collaboration is the missing ingredient in food system reform.

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The textile companies creating material change

GreenBiz

Between now and 2030, we need to turn linear, exploitative consumption of natural resources into models that are regenerative, circular and inclusive. Between now and 2030, we need to turn linear, exploitative consumption of natural resources into models that are regenerative, circular and inclusive. Committed to improvement, together.