The hottest Sustainability Substack posts right now

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🌿 Algae domestication program wins Seaweed Ideathon

paxtier • 2 implied HN points • 25 Feb 24
🔬 Science Sustainability
  1. An algae domestication program won a Seaweed Ideathon, focusing on sustainable agriculture practices and biostimulant production.
  2. Investors are showing interest in aquaculture technology, with significant funding rounds announced for seaweed-derived products and sustainability initiatives.
  3. Job opportunities in the seaweed and microalgae industry are on the rise, with companies like PhycoWorks and GreenWave actively recruiting for various positions.

Proactive vs Reactive

Save Our Happy Place • 4 implied HN points • 21 Feb 23
🌞 Climate & Environment Sustainability
  1. Climate change is affecting day-to-day life more visibly, prompting more acknowledgment and urgency.
  2. We are now in a reactive state in addressing climate change, and proactive actions are crucial for systemic change.
  3. Individuals can drive change by becoming civically engaged and demanding action from politicians.

Giving Back to the Earth

Save Our Happy Place • 3 implied HN points • 18 Jul 23
🌞 Climate & Environment Sustainability
  1. Composting reduces waste sent to landfills and cuts methane emissions, improving soil health and conserving water.
  2. To start composting, check for nearby composting sites or community programs, or make your own compost at home.
  3. Advocate for municipal composting infrastructure to save costs and cut landfill waste by lobbying city council members.
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You are likely funding climate pollution, military weapons, and forced labor, here's how to divest.

As If We Were Staying • 1 implied HN point • 30 Apr 24
🌞 Climate & Environment Sustainability
  1. Many people unknowingly invest in companies that contribute to climate pollution and violence. This includes investments in fossil fuels, military weapons, and businesses involved in deforestation and forced labor.
  2. Our current economic system focuses too much on profit, often ignoring the social and environmental impacts. This has led to significant inequality and harm to society and the planet.
  3. To make better investment choices, look into where your money is going. Consider using more ethical funds and banks that support positive changes for the environment and society.

Shrinking, Disappearing, and plagued by Dust storms, the World's Lakes are in Danger

Adetokunbo Sees • 1 HN point • 17 Feb 24
🌞 Climate & Environment Sustainability
  1. The shrinking and disappearing lakes around the world are facing danger due to multiple factors like climate change and reduced water levels.
  2. Lakes like the Aral Sea, Lake Chad, and Qinghai Lake are shrinking dramatically, impacting millions of lives and ecosystems that depend on their water.
  3. Efforts to conserve and sustainably manage these lakes involve global collaboration and the balance between development and environmental preservation.

Sustainability helps you reduce costs

Klement on Investing • 1 implied HN point • 12 Feb 24
💼 Business Sustainability
  1. Sustainability can help companies reduce costs by attracting skilled employees who value non-wage benefits like ESG criteria.
  2. Younger generations like Millennials and Gen Z prioritize softer criteria like a company's sustainability when looking for jobs, not just salary or career opportunities.
  3. Companies offering sustainability credentials, like being a certified B Corp, can attract more applicants, especially those with higher education and skills.

Change Please

Good Business, Better World • 1 HN point • 30 Mar 23
💼 Business Sustainability
  1. Change Please trains people facing homelessness to become baristas and offers support with housing and health services.
  2. The company was inspired by a Banksy art piece featuring a homeless person with a cup of coffee and a sign that read 'Keep your coins, I want change'.
  3. Change Please generates revenue by selling coffee and uses the profits to provide support to people facing homelessness through training and services.

Executive Director Role

Helix • 0 implied HN points • 17 May 23
🌞 Climate & Environment Sustainability
  1. Biomimicry Institute empowers people to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet.
  2. The institute aims to promote the transfer of ideas from biology to sustainable systems design.
  3. In 2023, the Biomimicry Institute will welcome a new Executive Director following a planned succession.

The Resale Revolution: Fashionably Sustainable

Digital Native • 0 implied HN points • 25 Oct 23
💼 Business Sustainability
  1. Resale is growing rapidly and offers a sustainable solution to the fashion industry's environmental impact.
  2. Connecting resale to the point of purchase can increase average order values, conversion rates, and reduce cart abandonment.
  3. There is a significant market opportunity in the resale industry, especially with the younger generation driving the demand for sustainable and affordable fashion.

Tamago Ya- The King of Operational Excellence

SAURABH SAHA • 0 implied HN points • 17 Apr 23
💼 Business Sustainability
  1. Tamago Ya excels in operational excellence by serving 70,000+ people with minimal waste
  2. Tamago Ya's success is attributed to manual forecasting, reusable tiffins, and high-quality ingredients
  3. Tamago Ya's unique practices include hiring ex-convicts, advanced logistics, and customer feedback-driven menu planning

Becky Lane: "​In 2050, every home in the UK will be as energy efficient as possible"​

2050 • 0 implied HN points • 27 Mar 23
🌞 Climate & Environment Sustainability
  1. By 2050, every home in the UK should be as energy efficient as possible by minimizing energy usage for heating.
  2. Not every home may reach the highest energy efficiency ratings due to factors like age and build design, so focus on incremental improvements.
  3. To advance energy efficiency, consider policy requirements tied to housing tenures to drive investments and increase market demand.

The Big Lie That Climate Propagandists Don’t Want You To Talk About

A Natural Language • 0 implied HN points • 26 May 23
🌞 Climate & Environment Sustainability
  1. The big lie climate propagandists push is the carbon accounting framework, which targets specific emissions sources and ignores larger contributors like deforestation.
  2. Forest clear-cutting emits significant carbon dioxide plumes that are often overlooked in carbon accounting, impacting the rise in atmospheric carbon.
  3. Challenging the carbon accounting framework challenges the very foundation of climate propaganda, revealing the flaws in current climate narratives and highlighting the need for accountability.

Man-Made Desertification

A Natural Language • 0 implied HN points • 08 Mar 23
🌞 Climate & Environment Sustainability
  1. Better land stewardship can help soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide quickly.
  2. Soil with less carbon holds less water, leading to more topsoil loss and water evaporation.
  3. Desertification fueled by man-made activities like plantations and overgrazing can be reversed by techniques like harvesting water and limiting soil evaporation.

Watt's in our Query? Decoding the Energy of AI Interactions

ScaleDown • 0 implied HN points • 10 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Sustainability
  1. AI interactions have a significant environmental impact due to high energy consumption in training and inference processes.
  2. Different AI tasks have varying energy consumption levels, with complex tasks like generating text or images requiring more power.
  3. Models like GPT-4 consume more energy during inference, especially when deployed at a large scale, emphasizing the need for responsible AI usage.

Getting the Memo on Climate Risk

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 17 Jan 24
🌞 Climate & Environment Sustainability
  1. Economists are focusing on assessing the economic risks posed by the planetary crisis.
  2. The Biden Administration has released a memo addressing near-term macroeconomic and financial climate risks.
  3. The memo suggests accounting for extreme event risks, transitional dynamics, and effects on particular income groups.

The Retail Revolution (Part 2/2) 🛍

Digital Native • 0 implied HN points • 01 Mar 23
💼 Business Sustainability
  1. The retail landscape has shifted from traditional malls to digital-first strategies like immersive virtual worlds.
  2. AI tools are helping consumers navigate through overwhelming product choices, especially in online shopping platforms like Amazon.
  3. Sustainable commerce is on the rise with a focus on secondhand markets, excess inventory management, and cleaner practices due to increasing environmental concerns.

Anna Sandgren: “in 2050, every business decision will benefit people, planet and profit equally”

2050 • 0 implied HN points • 05 May 23
💼 Business Sustainability
  1. In 2050, every business decision should benefit people, planet, and profit equally because they are interconnected.
  2. Companies might struggle to prioritize sustainability today due to short-term shareholder expectations and lack of data accessibility.
  3. To integrate sustainability into everyday decision-making, businesses need real-time aggregated data on people, planet, and profit.