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The HealthcareLCA database is an interactive tool for exploring health care’s significant environmental impact. It can inform changes in health policy and practice, and identify areas for research.
All those Cinderella stories, buzzer-beating finishes and wild cheering sections have a high price tag – for the climate.
Burial land is running low in certain parts of the world. It’s about time we started to consider the environmental cost of our final resting place.
Cryptocurrency has a substantial carbon footprint. Ethereum have taken steps to address this, but will others follow suit?
A 1972 report warned that unchecked consumption could crater the world economy by 2100. Fifty years and much debate later, can humanity innovate quickly enough to avoid that fate?
Nigeria’s built environment should ideally be part of a broader, integrated approach to crime prevention and community policing.
New developments in microalgae cultivation are helping to propel the potential of renewable biofuels to combat climate change.
Permaculture – a mashup of ‘permanent’ and ‘culture’ – is a way of doing agriculture that’s inspired by the resilience and biodiversity of healthy natural ecosystems.
One of Europe’s last intact mobile and vegetated dune ecosystems is in danger of being loved to death. What can be done?
Menstruation cups are increasingly being used as an environmentally friendly alternative to tampons and sanitary pads.
A new study puts numbers to the health and environmental benefits – or impacts – of individual foods and shows how small changes can make a significant difference.
If you’re doing something (even if you know you probably shouldn’t), you’re more likely to think lots of other people do it too. You also likely overestimate how much other people think it’s OK.
The geographic setting of hazardous industrial sites in residential areas during apartheid hasn’t transformed since democracy.
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.
South Africa hasn’t successfully developed institutional capacity and the government skills to manage industrial risks to communities and the environment.
Fracking in Botswana could have an impact not only the country’s groundwater, but also that of Namibia and South Africa.
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“Frankly, why should any hospital purchase coal-fired energy when it produces toxic air pollution that harms health?”
Empatheatre’s latest production is more than a play about three characters who live near the sea. It’s a model for collective consultation on how to save the ocean.
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Professor Environmental Science, University of South Africa
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Director, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Sustainability Research, School of Physics, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sustainability, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Nottingham
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Reader in Transport Planning, University of Westminster
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Digital and Communications Manager
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Senior Lecturer in Management, Core Member of ECU Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University
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Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Professor in International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State
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Registered Dietitian, Research Fellow, University of Guelph
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Honorary Professor, Exeter UK / Adjunct Professor, Monash Sustainable Development Institute / Visiting Professor, Surrey UK, University of Exeter
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Conservation Scientist | Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Research Associate, University of Guelph
