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the South African PET Recycling Company
Recycling PET is <b>sustainable</b><p>PET packaging can be made from up to 100% recycled PET, recapturing both the material and the inherent energy of the …
SustainabilityWorld Economic Forum
They eat all the weeds and insects - but leave the rice alone. Learn more: https://wef.ch/2J3GGOb
Building for a Billion Competition Entry: A Cost Efficient Architectural Abode for Slum Dwellers
This is synopsis of Building for a Billion, an International Design Competition for Housing Every Indian by Pappal Suneja & Associates. The team …
Outdoor SpacesThese New Yorkers have had it with plastic. So they're getting very creative.
What happens when you combine politics and activism with bodega owners and artists? An environmental movement to stop plastic bag use.<p>Vote With Your …
SustainabilityNice Nailantei Leng’ete
As a Maasai child in Kenya, Nice Nailantei Leng’ete accomplished something remarkable: she escaped the cut, her culture’s ritualized female genital …
Female Genital MutilationWhat the car ban means for travel in Central Park
The world’s most famous green space is about to get a lot greener.<p>All private vehicles will be banned from Central Park starting on June 27, Mayor de …
Bill de BlasioEvaporative off-grid toilets don't need plumbing, water or electricity
2.6 billion people around the planet don’t have access to safe toilets. Not only does this impact health, but empowerment as well: women and girls …
Off-gridIn The Know Innovation
You can wash your hair 80 times with this shampoo that doesn’t come in a bottle 😱
Green Pad
Funding would allow us to…<p>Increase our production. We’d be able to buy new machines and equipment to convert raw materials to pulp, finish and …
MenstruationStatue of the gynecologist who experimented on black women removed from Central Park
There are dozens of plaques, signs, memorials and statues in Central Park dedicated to important figures and legends in history. Some of them bear …
Women of ColorNYC Will Remove Statue of Doctor Who Performed Gynecological Experiments on Women Slaves
The City of New York has agreed to remove a controversial statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th century physician whose gynecological advancements came at …
Bill de BlasioHidden plastics: just when you thought it was safe to dunk a teabag
Coffee cups<p>Last Tuesday, Waitrose announced plans to remove all disposable coffee cups from their stores by autumn of this year – customers will have to bring a reusable one of their own. Despite their cardboard appearance, coffee cups are actually lined with polyethylene and are hard to recycle. …
PollutionA Permaculture Country Club Where There is Disc Golf Course on an Organic Garden!
There is a Permaculture Country Club in Costa Rica, part of Saint Michael’s Sustainable Community, that is a gardening club that runs on Organic …
PermacultureMy Modern Met
Pontus Jansson / PJ is a rockstar! Watch him stack stones and balance rocks with nothing more than gravity.
Retyred - Customisable handmade ottomans from repurposed tyres
Shop<p>All our ottomans are handmade and lovingly crafted. Any slight imperfections make them intrinsically unique.
FurnitureA Personal Urban Food Production System - The Laptop of Fresh Food
Systems like the Valcent VertiCrop are the servers and mainframes of urban food production. Just as in the digital world, we also need distributed …
1 Million Women
20,000 people came together for Bali’s biggest clean up ever. The people of Bali have never been more ready for change! 💪🇮🇩Lead by two incredible …
Soldiers demand sex for removing Mugabe from power - report
Zimbabwean soldiers have been demanding free sex since Robert Mugabe was removed from power‚ according to the National Aids Council (NAC).
South AfricaTech Insider
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BBC Radio Bristol
NPowerNutrition Banana Peanut Butter Protein Power Balls🥜🍌😋<br>•<br>Ingredients: <br>✔1 sc nPower Vanilla Cupcake Isolate <br>✔1/2 c Oats <br>✔1/3 c Nutty Natural PB …
BBC Radio Bristol
Don't like plastic in the supermarkets?<br>Why not bin the lot! ♻️🗑
Sea turtles return to Mumbai beach after 20-year absence
Olive Ridley hatchlings are seen returning to the sea at Versova Beach in Mumbai. The work of hundreds of volunteers to rid the beach of trash paved …
Turtles