Business and political leaders from around the world gathered at the DealBook summit in New York earlier this month to address the question: can fashion be profitable without growth? Producing too many clothes is no longer a good thing. This is the conclusion of a working group made up of key players in the fashion industry, who agree that things need to change without delay.
Reporterre offers us a 5-point guide to avoid toys made in China, to ensure that they have been manufactured in conditions that respect nature and workers, the labels to observe and the brands to favor. Green Is the New Black has produced a 10-point guide to responsible gift-giving for older children, and to creating an eco-friendly family Christmas feast.
After years of complaints from local residents, the city council unanimously passed an ordinance banning all new oil extraction and ending existing operations within 20 years. Oil wells are located in almost every part of the city, Wilmington, Harbor Gateway, downtown, West LA, South LA and the northwestern San Fernando Valley, and are causing health problems for their residents.
One of the challenges in the fight against global warming is to find a way to take better account of nature in our economic system. The answers we have found and implemented to date are largely based on market logic. But it’s very risky to consider nature and the living world as commodities. On the other hand, the idea that nature is a person is an anthropocentric concept that doesn’t solve the problem.
Scientists announced on Tuesday that they had succeeded in reproducing the power of the sun in the laboratory. If fusion could be deployed on a large scale, it would offer an energy source free from the pollution and greenhouse gases caused by burning fossil fuels and the dangerous, long-lived radioactive waste created by today’s nuclear power plants, which use uranium fission to produce energy.
This week, in Canada, environmentalists will be trying to persuade the world’s governments to find the will to tackle this crisis. Like the climate emergency, it is the direct consequence of human activity, but does not have the same visibility. Of the 20 targets set at the last major summit in Japan in 2010, ranging from pollution control to coral reef protection, none has been fully achieved.
This is the conclusion of a new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) published at the end of November. Its aim is to reduce premature deaths by more than 50% by 2030, compared with 2005, when there were still 431,000 deaths. This is good news, given that air pollution is the biggest environmental threat to the health of Europe’s citizens.
Two years after the failure of the vote on the “Initiative for Responsible Multinationals”, the “Coalition for Responsible Multinationals” submitted a petition to Bern on December 1, gathering over 200,000 signatures. The initiators are asking the Federal Council for effective legislation to ensure that multinationals assume their social and environmental responsibilities.
The simulator created by Datagir and Ademe now offers a “Digital” category, which enables an estimate to be made of the CO2 emissions linked to digital activities, which have an impact equivalent to that of the air transport sector. E-mails, video streaming and videoconferencing are detailed, and the calculation can be refined using parameters such as time of use, image resolution and attachments.
Powered by hydrogen, fuel cell vehicles produce only water as an exhaust emission. Hydrogen fuel cell cars emerged as an alternative to electric and combustion engine vehicles in the early 2000s. They were once widely seen as a route to universal green motorization, but have now all but disappeared.
