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Green Elephant Show No 15 covering the latest sustainability news

Sustainability News 18th September

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Sustainability News 18th September
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The latest sustainability news, fun, facts and reviews from the Green Elephant for 18th September 2020. Top stories: Wildfires have burned 2.3M acres across California this year Mass deaths of migratory birds reported in New Mexico How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled Last year,

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Green Elephant Sustainability News 21st August 2020

Sustainability News 21st August

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Sustainability News 21st August
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The latest sustainability news from the Green Elephant for 21st August 2020. Top stories: Facebook tells Elizabeth Warren it has two different standards for climate fact-checking Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon World’s highest temperature, 130F, recorded in Death Valley New Research Shows Companies

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Green Elephant Show 005 Coronavirus Normality or What's normal.

005 Coronavirus Normality? What’s normal?

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005 Coronavirus Normality? What's normal?
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Overview It is strange times in which we’re all living. None of us has ever experienced anything like this “Coronavirus normality”. This time we discuss the things that have changed, what will continue to be different and what we can learn from this new normal. Take away actions Think smarter

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Supermarket sustainability heroes or villains

004 Supermarket sustainability, Heroes or villains?

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004 Supermarket sustainability, Heroes or villains?
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Overview The last 50 years have seen a fundamental shift in the way we all shop for groceries. We used to go to the bakers, the butchers, the grocers, the chemists and the newsagents but instead we now go to Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Sainbury’s Walmart, Carrefour and Yonghui! In this

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Million Plastic Bottles

A million plastic bottles are bought every single minute

A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021 Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardising oceans, coastlines and other environments Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/28/a-million-a-minute-worlds-plastic-bottle-binge-as-dangerous-as-climate-change

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