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Touch Wood: Sustainable Building Design
— Author: Imogen Brennan It took a leap of faith for the clients of architecture firm Tzannes to agree to have their seven storey commercial office block at Sydney’s Barangaroo precinct built out of...
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The Sound of Sustainability
— Author: Ruby Lohman The decline of the humble orange roughy is a well-known story in world fishing: through the 1980s and 1990s, the fish was so popular in Australia and New Zealand that it became...
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Openness in Scholarship: A Return to Core Values?
— This is my submitted paper to ElPub, a conference running in Cyprus over the next few days. I’m posting it here as a kind-of-preprint. Comments and thoughts are welcome. The version in the...
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Scientists, Here’s How to Use Less Plastic
— By Laura Mulvey The lab is quietly bustling with scientists intent on their work. One gestures to an item on her bench – a yellow container, about the size of a novel. It’s almost full to the brim...
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Can Banning Plastic Straws Save the Oceans
By ROB JORDAN-STANFORD Plastic waste, mostly in the form of tiny particles, floats in huge blobs that together cover as much as 40 percent of the Earth’s ocean surface. In California, a bill to ban...
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Try the 365 Sustainability Challenge
The news on climate change with related challenges and consequences seems to explode at present, as there are many things that require special attention: greenhouse gas emissions, micro plastics,...
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We’ve Been Transforming the Earth for at Least 10,000 Years
By KEITH RANDALL-TEXAS A&M The study synthesizes data from 255 archaeologists to provide the first global survey of the Earth’s transformation through human land use over the past 10,000 years. The...
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10 Sustainable Products to Fight COVID-19
Now’s a great time to work on consuming sustainable products to fight COVID-19. It’s hard to draw a direct line between our instant-gratification/disposable society and the cause of COVID-19. (And yet,...
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How to Feel Better in Any Crisis
The current circumstances with having to deal with two crises at once – the Corona and climate crisis – puts a lot of tension on many of us. Most experience it as a very unpleasant situation. So what...
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Are You Still Running the Taps?
What if I told you that by making a very small sacrifice each day, you could benefit the planet and your wallet? That’s something we can all feel good about, right? A good place to start is evaluating...
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An Earth Day Apology to Greta Thunberg
In her recent interview in Rolling Stone magazine, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg expresses her disappointment with ‘the olds’. She is referring to older generations and baby boomers who...
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The Importance of Open Access in Creating a Sustainable Society
By Daniela Thrän Finding sustainable solutions to supply future generations with energy, water, food and a peaceful environment is a key challenge. We understand today that the issues we face with...
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The Triangular Theory of Love; Learn to Value Your Relationships With a...
Love means different things to different people. The question, “What is love?” has to be the most perplexing question to be asked. Many books have been written about it. Movies, tv shows, sitcoms,...
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This Is a Time for Solidarity. This Is a Time for Sustainability. This Is a...
A time for solidarity: The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic must not become the occasion for a war of all against all. Blaming China, or immigrants, or the opposition party is a way to divide us just...
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The Re-Planning of Cities Is Essential. And It Requires Changes in Our Habits
More and more voices are calling for a re-planning of cities to redesign them not around the car, but around people. The age of permanently congested cities, which kill millions of people through...
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Corporate Reporting, SDGs, and Corporate Sustainable Goals
— On the first day of the UNCSD high level session (Rio+20), leaders from business, government and civil society launched a high-level working group to align the processes to generate improved...
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How Agrivoltaic Technology Could Redesign Farming
With farmers all over Spain struggling to make a living and demanding help from the government, now is a good time to talk about agrivoltaics — co-developing the same area of land for solar power and...
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8 Easy Things You Can Do to Help the Environment
Climate change is a very prominent issue today. However, people can often be turned off from wanting to change their normal lifestyle because there is a misconception that in order to live a more...
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You Need These 5 Eco-Friendly British Brands In Your Closet
So, you’re someone that wants to buy ethically. You really want to vote with your wallet; you want to make environmentally sustainable fashion choices. Where do you go? Everywhere seems to be...
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Why I Love Zac Efron’s New Netflix Show
For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past week or so, actor Zac Efron has recently come out with a new show on Netflix. It’s called ‘Down to Earth with Zac Efron’ and I’m really...
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