We have reported here that consumer demand for ethical goods and services is on the rise; the latest data on consumer behavior confirms this upward trend.
Little Buffalo, a town of 500 people in Alberta, is at the forefront of multiple environmental justice battles: it has been polluted by oil spills and damaged by tar sands mining, but it is also pushing to move beyond fossil fuels and towards renewable energy.
From the coal mines of Appalachia to the tar sands sites of Alberta, Canada, the fossil fuel industry has left a catastrophic swathe of destruction in its wake.
Since the Industrial Revolution, Western society has radically altered the natural environment. We pump carbon into the atmosphere and dump toxins into the seas.
An essential part of building living communities isn’t just designing housing units with a low environmental impact, but making those housing units affordable for the communities they’re in.
Slugging outfielder Nelson Cruz became the first Major League ambassador of the “Baseball Cares” initiative in the Dominican Republic last week (Jan. 22) when his cash donation was parlayed into mobility equipment to help disabled people get around his hometown of Las Matas de Santa Cruz and surrounding communities in the province of Monte Cristi.
