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Do It Yourself (DIY) Sustainable Living: Zero Waste Households
They say the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. Not enough people did. So today, our mission can only be to shape a sustainable, greener future. Demanding changes, asking for solutions. There’s always a moment in time when complaining simply isn’t going to be enough. To make changes happen we need people, actions, objectives, facts.
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Mattia Curmà
Do It Yourself (DIY) Sustainable Living: Plastic Alternatives
Whether you like it or not, the great problem we have with plastic is a very simple factor: its tremendous success. And the explanation is as simple as it gets. It is convenient. Plastic is a durable, versatile, flexible, long-lasting, and cheap material. Which makes it the first go-to material to design and produce general use tools.
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Mattia Curmà
Do It Yourself (DIY) Sustainable Living: Energy Saving
More and more corporations and businesses are starting to acknowledge their responsibility and are on the way to enact change. But what about consumers? How can they start to mitigate their impact on the planet? In this series of Do It Yourself Sustainable Living articles, you will find easy-to-adopt tips you can start adapting to your daily routine to decrease your carbon footprint.
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Mattia Curmà
Do It Yourself (DIY) Sustainable Living: Reuse Items destined for the Bin
If there’s something we know about restoring and protecting the environment, is that we can’t just sit around waiting for things to happen. We can’t wait for policy makers to acknowledge the problem; we can’t wait for NGOs around the world to take action; we can’t wait for businesses to create sustainable development conditions.
We must create them. We must act. We are the ones who need to make it happen.
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Mattia Curmà
How Businesses & Brands Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
According to Nasa, the industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have raised atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from 280 parts per million to 414 parts per million in the last 150 years. And guess what? Businesses – no matter how big nor small - can really influence this result. By simply altering the way they...
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Mattia Curmà
Climate Change & Sustainability in Numbers
Restoring our planet is no easy task. Policymakers are struggling to maintain a balance between their growth objectives and ecosystem preservation efforts. The Paris Agreement, the latest international agreement that came into action in 2015, outlines sustainability goals spearheaded by the United Nations on Climate Change. It’s a great starting point, but...
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Mattia Curmà
Let’s talk Greenhouse Gases (GHG)
We figured out that in order to fight climate change, we first need to understand what we’re talking about. Luckily, organisations such as The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment to provide an objective source of scientific information on the topic.
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Mattia Curmà
Climate Change: it’s all cool until it’s not
If you are reading this, you are probably concerned for the future of our planet. If so, we feel you, and so do we. We all love our planet, we all understand the importance of preserving our ecosystem, of reducing gas emissions. Due to human practices, the combined land and ocean temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.07°C per decade.
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Mattia Curmà
Potential Reforestation Impact.
Research lead by Jean-Francois Bastin of ETH-Zurich, has found that Earth’s ecosystems could support another 2.2 billion acres of forests, 25 percent more forested area than we have now. By planting more than a half trillion trees, we could capture about 205 gigatons of carbon, reducing atmospheric carbon by about 25 percent.
Lauren Savant
Global space for plantation.
According to "The global tree restoration potential” report published by Science there is enough suitable land to increase the world’s forest cover by one-third without affecting existing cities or agriculture. However, as global temperature rises by as little as 1.5 degrees Celcius, the area available for reforestation could be reduced by a fifth by 2050. The time to reforest is now.
Tarek Ayoub
Biological
Annihilation.
We are at the threshold of a crisis due to climate change, global warming and greenhouse effects. The earth is losing its biodiversity as man-made deforestation has forced an increasing number of animals out of their habitat. According to Professor Gerardo Ceballos, we are heading towards a 6th mass extinction and are in the midst of a “biological annihilation” due to the exploitation of natural resources.
Tarek Ayoub