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Canada bans some single-use plastics; are takeout containers enough?

Corporate Knights

Two and a half years of pandemic living has left the planet with a major plastic hangover. For more than half a century,” Bonta said in a statement, “the plastics industry has engaged in an aggressive campaign to deceive the public, perpetuating a myth that recycling can solve the plastics crisis.”.

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What if there was a cooking oil that didn't drive deforestation?

Corporate Knights

The marketing campaign worked. Its success gave birth to a new era of cooking fats. The plants cultivated to make these oils now cover nearly a quarter of the planet’s cropland, and demand for them is still growing. That’s not good news for the Earth. Crisco took off. It’s what drives us. It’s our North Star.

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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

The latter commitment is one touted by members of The Climate Pledge, orchestrated by Amazon and Global Optimism, although PepsiCo isn’t a member of that campaign as of this writing. Because we're Scope 3, it's got to be across your whole supply chain. We have brands, whole brands that are [using] 100 percent recycled PET in Europe.

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2022 Global Citizen Festival Campaign Culminates in $2.4 Billion To End Extreme Poverty

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVALS IN ACCRA AND NEW YORK CITY ANNOUNCE OVER $800 MILLION TO EMPOWER GIRLS, DEFEAT POVERTY, DEFEND THE PLANET, PROMOTE HEALTH, PROTECT CIVIC SPACE AND MITIGATE THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS. FOR THE PLANET Commitments made to defend the planet include: Governments. SOURCE: Global Citizen.

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Is the World Headed for an Uninsurable Future?

Chris Hall

State Farm – which has not responded to a request for comment – isn’t the only insurer to have made such a decision , with a number of firms pulling back from regions that are already seeing the negative effects of a rapidly warming planet.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation

This is apparent in daily news reports, which indicate that our societies generate both new and old problems at a faster rate than we can ever hope to solve them. Even solutions that “work” can have negative side-effects that then generate new problems. We cannot afford to continue with business as usual.