Photo: Miniwiz The next time someone says your iPhone case looks like you found it in the trash, you can take it as a compliment.
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Photo credit: sporkist / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Andrea Thomas, Walmart senior vice president of sustainability. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently issued an alarming report that states roughly one-third of the food produced globally for human consumption is lost or wasted every year —approximately 1.3 billion tons of food When I wrote about Adam Stein’s assertion that climate change may still be compatible with a brighter future , many commenters mistakenly thought that he was arguing that climate change would actually create a better future. (His point was not about causality, but rather that we might still have more prosperity despite the challenges thrown at us.) So I am guessing that Rachel Godfrey Wood’s argument that From our friends at Fast Company , “bridging the fuzzy border between design and business.” Sometimes it seems like a new flashy electric car is announced every week. But the CEO of BMW North America–which has at least two electric vehicles on tap–just announced that he doesn’t think EVs will work for more than 10% of the population. Why is the company ragging on its own cars A proposed wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts in Nantucket Sound has been approved, following a long debate over its location. Comprised of 130 wind turbines, the array is expected to reduce the area’s oil consumption by 113 million gallons per year. Learn why opponents to the wind farm were concerned, and more about the clean energy benefits it’s expected to produce. With fewer and fewer discoveries of new oil, our current system of agriculture becomes increasingly unsustainable. A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists evaluates the overall effect genetic engineering has had on crop yields in relation to other agricultural technologies. Despite claims from the biotech industry that genetic engineering has increased U.S. |
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