The implementing of measures that reduce the tons of waste that damage and threat biodiversity will be essential to fight pollution through the ratification of international treaties. It is of paramount importance to highlight the international interest of the main actives about the urgence of immediate actions to mitigate the effects of the climate changes […]
As sustainability education helps us to see the bigger picture, no matter where we work, it also shows how every workplace action can impact the climate. The debate over how much forward motion COP26 has truly created will continue over the coming year and into the next COP summit. But this much we know today: […]
In July, 2021, the European Commission presented a measurement package, “Fit for 55 package”, whose main purpose is to reach the carbon neutrality until 2050. This package is about a set of proposals that will accelerate the change to a new economic model in which words like recycling and reusing will no longer be something […]
The human being has a problem of consumerism: we always need “things”, want “things”, buy “things”. We have them, use them and after we do not know what to do with them. Many times we do not even question, we simply discard them without asking ourselves the consequences of this use and consumption. So, they end up being wastes that, only occasionally, have a good recycling practice.
Did you know that tourism is one of the industries that most pollute? It represents 8% of emission of the greenhouse gases all around the world. The same way, a report from the United Nations for the Environment affirms that, on the high season, the marine trash in the Mediterranean region increases up to 40%. The unique use of the plastic allied to the phenomenon of the mass tourism has been impacting a lot the touristic regions.
Paris is the home for some workshop or “repairing cafés”, monthly free initiatives that allow the local citizens to repair home appliances and electronics with the help and the council from enthusiastic volunteers. Inspired on the initiative launched by the journalist Martine Postma in Amsterdam in 2009, hundreds of similar workshops operate in the whole Europe.
