Most supermarkets now carry bent bananas, angular avocados and contorted carrots. Sold as ugly produce, they are a significant change in product. But are they really helping cut down food waste? Or just another profit channel?
Sweet Street Solution: Lithium-Sulphur batteries
Sustaining Beauty: Chanel Goes Eco-Edu
Keeping Clean: Washing Without Wasting
Food: Our Biggest Climate Problem?
Serious in Singapore : Environmental Law Gets Tough
Saving Carbon: Indonesia Gets $100million for Forest Protection
Deforestation and forest degradation make up the second biggest cause of global warming. Together they produce some 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. In Indonesia, deforestation and forest degradation are the biggest national greenhouse gas emitters, which is why the UN has pledged more than $100 million of funding to help stop the felling.
Mass Timber: The New Concrete
Cheap Food? Cheap Life
All living things must eat – and must eat each other. Food is the great connector. Its influence over our lives and world is almost too big to see – which may explain why we fail to value it. Yet if we can learn to value food it has the potential to transform our lives and create better cities and a better world.
Australian Bushfires: A Lesson from the Sahara
For almost 20 years Tony Rinaudo worked on a small reforestation project on the borders of the arid Sahara Desert. He helped turn a potential ecological collapse into a thriving agricultural success, bringing a ten-fold increase in forestation and a multi-million dollar agriculture industry. This, he says, holds a significant lesson for post-bushfire Australia
In Vogue: Fashion Goes Green
Disposable clothes, throw away designs and massive photoshoot costs have all been levelled at the fashion industry as examples of unsustainable waste. One fashion magazine in Italy has decided that it has to stop talking and walk the sustainable catwalk with a photo-free publication – saving considerable resources in the process.
