How can we reduce the use of raw materials? To break out of the “iron cage of consumption”, says Mariel Moreno from The Ecologist, you need to use things to the last – whether it’s clothes, houses, cars, join a car club, share appliances with neighbors and return the washing machine! Shared consumption has demonstrated […]
Wind turbines have been installed in Istanbul that generate electricity using the turbulence of airflow from transport, the Independent reports. Turbines are called “Enlil” in honor of the god of wind from Sumerian-Akkadian mythology. They were developed by the startup Deveci Tech together with Istanbul Technical University. It is a vertical turbine that […]
World Animal Day is an international day dedicated to draw humanity’s attention to the problems of the rest of the inhabitants of planet Earth. This date is celebrated annually on October 4. It’s celebrated around the world since 1931; its goal is to draw attention to the problems of other inhabitants of the planet. And […]
Great catastrophes come from human’s unwillingness to comply with the laws of nature, from his reluctance to understand that hunger cannot be quenched by ravaging the earth. Jean Dorst, French zoologist. Let’s continue the conversation about whether agriculture can harm wildlife started in my previous column. Looking ahead, we will answer this question. It […]
Every minute, as much plastic waste as one garbage truck gets into the ocean. There are 170 million tons of plastic waste floating in the world’s oceans, and by 2050 their weight will exceed the total weight of fish. One of the solutions of the plastic problem is sustainable development: this is when companies turn […]
The world’s shipbuilding industry has been generating the most revenue since 2008. Due to increased demand and supply disruptions, market prices have risen sharply, Bloomberg states. Demand is rising and the global supply chain is suffering from a pandemic that raises the prices of shipping services. According to Clarkson Research Services Ltd., one of the […]
Against a backdrop of the overlapping environmental, political, and economic challenges confronting humanity, young delegates will meet next month during the World Food Forum to explore sustainable solutions to the problems facing agriculture and food systems. The organizers describe the five-day forum, which will run from Oct. 1-5, as an “independent global network of partners, […]
More than four decades ago, the Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild. But today, thanks to efforts spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, experts are citing the swell in its numbers as one of the world’s biggest conservation success stories. In the early 1970s, the antelope was considered all but vanished due to […]
The ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species will be declared extinct by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Government scientists have exhausted efforts to find these 23 species and warned that climate change, on top of other pressures, could make such disappearances more common, the Associated Press […]
Funds managing nearly $30 trillion in assets called on September 28 for 1,600 of the world’s most polluting companies to set science-based emissions reduction targets as a matter of urgency, Reuters reports. The 220 investors, including Fidelity International and Amundi, said they had written to CEOs of companies they invest in demanding targets that would […]
