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World Meat Free Day: Your Guide to a Climate-friendly Diet
Monday June 13th is World Meat Free Day. It’s a day when thousands of people give up meat for 24 hours to positively impact both their health and the environment. Monday June 13th is World Meat Free Day. It’s a day when thousands of people give up meat for 24 hours to positively impact both…
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Cleaning up our plastic act
‘I’ll just chuck it in my backpack’. That’s what I said to the cashier in Albert Heijn, the biggest Dutch supermarket on the streets of Amsterdam. She had tried to charge me .50€ cents for a plastic bag so that I could carry my bunch of bananas 100m down the road. It was more than…
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International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) Legal Demands Don’t Change the Facts
Instead of paying big law firms to stifle criticism from independent environmental organizations, we encourage ISSF to invest in measures that hold its member companies accountable for their destructive practices…
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You Stood Up for Rainforests and Companies That Use Palm Oil Are Listening
Written by Rolf Skar, Forest Campaign Director at Greenpeace USA. Hundreds of thousands of you spoke up for Indonesia’s rainforests and companies like Colgate-Palmolive are listening. There is still a lot to do, but it is making progress to reduce rainforest destroying palm oil from its supply chain. Palm oil is one of the…
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U.S. Environmental Groups Express Concern Over the U.S. Green Building Council’s Approach to Forests
Greenpeace USA, joined by Natural Resources Defense Council, Rainforest Action Network, Stand (formerly ForestEthics), National Wildlife Federation, Dogwood Alliance, Healthy Building Network, and Sierra Club signed a statement regarding the recent surprise move…
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We did it! We won a world-class recycling system for NSW
From July 2017, you’ll get 10c back for every can and bottle you recycle. It may not sound like much, but it worked for South Australia with double the recycling rate of other states. It’s the system we were promised by Premier Mike Baird back in 2015 – and he was dragging his heels until…