DECOUPLING: IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE ECONOMIC GROWTH WITHOUT INCREASING EMISSIONS?
Since its birth, the industrialization process has gone hand in hand with the increase in greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, this process…
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IS SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH A UTOPIA?
By Anastasia Binando For years the idea of economic growth has been predicated on the massive use of whatever resources were available…
Recent greenwashing scandals raise a question: how much longer are we going to fall for it?
By Enrico Merlo In the last few years, customers’ sensibility towards environmental issues (such as pollution or global warming) and social responsibility…
Conero Beauty: the vegan and sustainable skincare
Conero Beauty is the first Italian brand of authentic natural and sustainable cosmetics, combining effectiveness and tolerability, the...
What to know about sustainable agriculture
While it is clear that agriculture needs to supply increasing amounts of food to growing populations at low prices, it is also…
Shigeru Ban and sustainable architecture
Architect Shigeru Ban started employing environmentally friendly architectural materials like cardboard tubes long before sustainability...
The hidden truths of Fast Fashion
Are we sure that buying a dress at a good price is really a deal?! The fashion industry is the second largest…
The urgency of a natural agricultural-based food system
Energy in the meat industry Physicists argue that Energy is the capacity to generate life and it is part of microscopic phenomena…
The dark side of renewables
Temperature data shows rapid warming in the past few decades with 2020 being so far the warmest year since 1880, continuing a…
Transitioning towards sustainable agriculture
It is undeniable that, in the context of fast increasing climate change, biodiversity loss, and water shortages, global agriculture must...
It’s like packaging, but designed for nature
It’s no secret we have a problem with packaging waste and pollution. 82.2 million tons of packaging waste is produced every year.…
Circular Creativity: current trends in the luxury fashion world to give a new longer life to clothes
Sustainability is the challenge each company is facing today especially in the fashion industry, being the latter one of the most...