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Black Friday: My nightmare for the planet
Most of the items bought for short-term gratification on Black Friday will be quickly forgotten - the vast majority of goods will be used once and be discarded.
Alessandro Saccoccio • 4 min read -
Taking the shine off SHEIN: Hazardous chemicals in SHEIN products break EU regulations, new report finds
A new Greenpeace Germany report finds the use of hazardous chemicals underpins SHEIN’s ultra fast fashion business model.
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What Could A Better World Look Like in 10 Years?
Imagine we could travel forward 10 years in time. Imagine the year 2032 & what seems impossible now has become real.
Paula Tejon Carbajal and Catherine Rodgers • 3 min read -
5 inspiring reuse and refill projects from the Global South
Global South countries are leading the way towards a reuse revolution with both their traditional reuse and refill systems, and their modern equivalents. Meet some of the people behind the movement!
Caroline Wagner • 8 min read -
Hunger profiteers vs sustainable food
As the cost of living skyrockets, greedy corporations are profiting from hunger. The global food system is broken. But ecological farmers are sowing seeds of change.
Savio Carvalho • 5 min read -
Cambodia workers pay the price of Fast Fashion’s supply chain waste problem
An investigation by Unearthed has found that garment waste from clothes made for big fashion brands is being burnt in brick kilns in Cambodia.
Viola Wohlgemuth • 4 min read -
Take Plastic Free July one step further this year: hold the real polluters accountable
Reducing plastic waste in our everyday lives is important, but it’s time to hold the real polluters accountable.
Lisa Ramsden • 4 min read -
Ultrafast fashion giant Shein takes greenwashing to a new low: charitywash
In June, Shein, the largest online-only fashion retailer in the world, announced a donation of $15m to a NGO working with textile waste workers in Ghana.
Viola Wohlgemuth • 2 min read -
Bribery, fraud and large-scale greenwashing: WHY PLASTIC? exposes the grim reality of plastic ‘recycling’
Plastic has pushed our planet to the brink of one of the worst environmental crises in modern history. It’s a topic shrouded in confusion and misleading information.
Rachel Sheary, THE WHY Foundation • 4 min read -
Imagine an economy of peace
Be it the climate emergency, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine or any of the multiple other intersectional challenges the world is facing today, we are, inexplicably, in a crisis of imagination.
Markus Trilling • 4 min read