It’s always a joy to report on grassroots initiatives. We have featured the work of schoolteacher Kaliraj Kauruppasamyin Tamil Nadu on sustainapedia: http://www.sustainapedia.com/kaliraj-kauruppasamy-tamil-nadu/ Clean and Green Schools Movement Mr. Kauruppasamy’s profession is training […]
It is well known that the production of livestock-based diets comes with a very large ecological footprint (livestock emits approximately 14.5% of all man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions)¹. Swedish researchers have been looking […]
Netherlands President of Council of EU in 2015 As part of its desire to make the circular economy a centrepiece of its presidency of the Council of the European Union during the first half […]
Global Footprint Network reports that China is the world’s largest contributor to annual growth in the demand for ecological resources and services, and has been for the last five years for which data […]
Naresh Kumar of Puthar village in Haryana’s Panipat district is among the many farmers who have started farming mushrooms using paddy straw for preparing the compost needed to grow them. This has nearly ended […]
The carbon footprint of food waste should be taken into account alongside the the weight of food wasted, says a new study. The research examined three years of food waste data from six […]
“Small is…Festival is a great chance for people to get in touch with ideas that can really help to build solutions for a world locked into big-business market forces, helping to put people […]
It has taken less than eight months for humanity to use up nature’s entire budget for the year and go into ecological overshoot, according to data from Global Footprint Network, – last year it […]
Belgium’s Ecover is already widely known as a sustainability pioneer. The company’s products – laundry powder, washing-up liquid and soaps – are produced from less environmentally harmful ingredients, and are carried in greener packaging. The […]
“Designing products for a circular economy”: this theme has been elected by the European Commission to be discussed during a panel session on June 4th at 2.30pm. For its event Green Week 2014, […]