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Fast fashion is far from green. But the rapid expansion of online clothing resale platforms could help shrink the garment industry’s negative impact on the environment.
Spreading electricity demand throughout the day is much better for the environment.
Among the human rights under threat are the rights to life, health, food, a healthy environment, water, an adequate standard of living and culture.
Clashes between mining companies and communities are often about the age-old question of whether mining, with its adverse impacts, can benefit the many or only a selected few.
While the sports sector’s environmental impact is not fully understood, it has a social platform and reach to influence a significant number of people worldwide to choose more sustainable behaviors.
As the parliamentary record shows, the Greens have been the only party to consistently challenge orthodox ideas about economic growth and prosperity.
South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
Going from a single spore to a finished fungi-derived leather product takes a couple of weeks. But raising a cow to maturity for bovine leather can take several years.
Interventions with good intentions aren’t always fruitful.
There are four main ways that greening can benefit businesses.
The COVID-19 crisis highlights the importance of supply chains. But even with the increased recent attention, most supply chains remain murky. Consumers can play a key role in lifting that cloud.
How to ensure your savings, as well as your everyday consumption, are sustainable.
E-scooters from share schemes will be legal on roads in England, Scotland and Wales from July 4.
The travel crisis caused by COVID-19 is also an opportunity to end the worst excesses of international tourism for good.
We need to move towards ‘sufficiency-oriented’ lifestyles.
How to trigger eco-innovations after COVID-19.
Despite clear air as a result of the pandemic reducing human activities, our emissions still soar.
There’s growing interest in making the US food system more resilient and flexible, but soil – the origin of nearly everything we eat – is often left out of the picture.
While natural fibre textiles like cotton have generated an environmentally friendly reputation in recent years they might be just as bad as microplastic textiles like polyester and Nylon.
Top contributors
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Fellow in the School of Biosciences, The University of Melbourne
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
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Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
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Professor of Ecological Economics, UCL
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Postdoctoral researcher, TU Wien
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Professor of Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
