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IKEA Pledges to Transition to 100% “Better Cotton” by 2015
08/30/2011by Jasmin Malik Chua IKEA wants all its cotton to adhere to Better Cotton Initiative guidelines by the end of 2015,…
Read MoreHumans Emitted a Record Breaking 30.6 Gigatonnes of Carbon In 2010
08/30/2011by Brit Liggett filed under: global warming, News According to unpublished estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA), we humans emitted…
Read MoreUN Human Rights Council Endorses Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
08/30/2011By Gina-Marie Cheeseman The U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on June 16….
Read MoreHead of Brazil’s Environmental Protection Agency Says It Is Not His Job to Protect the Environment
08/30/2011by Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil Business & Politics As the President of Brazil’s environmental protection agency IBAMA, which oversees regulation…
Read MoreInnovation from the Bottom Up
08/30/2011By ANDREW C. REVKIN The Rockefeller Foundation, in deciding how to dispense tens of millions of dollars in grants each year,…
Read MoreThe Top-5 Ways to Protect Yourself from Cellphone Radiation
08/29/2011by Cliff Champion filed under: Design for Health, HOW TOs, News It’s official! Health experts are beginning to take the risk…
Read MoreLife Cycle Assessment of EVs Reveals Startling Results
08/29/2011By Phil Covington A number of articles published this week paint a negative picture of electric cars based on a British…
Read MoreWhat? Rats and Pigeons Aren’t Wildlife? Sir David Attenborough On Urban Estrangement From Nature
08/29/2011by Jennifer Hattam, Istanbul, Turkey Travel & Nature On a boat trip up the Bosphorus last weekend, our crew of urban-dwellers…
Read MoreBats and Birds Face Serious Threats From Growth of Wind Energy
08/29/2011By UMAIR IRFAN of ClimateWire Spinning blades and fluttering wings are clashing more frequently as greater numbers of wind turbines are…
Read MoreWorst Forms of Child Labor Occur in India’s Garment Industry, Says Report
08/29/2011by Jenny Tranter It is an appalling fact that child labor is still an issue in various countries across the world….
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