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International Polar Bear Day 2021
By helping protect the polar bear, we’re helping to make sure the Arctic food chain stays healthy, for the benefit of wildlife and people in and beyond the Arctic. The Arctic provides fish for millions of people.- animal welfare
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FAO declared 2021 the International Year of Fruit and Vegetables.
The aim is to raise public awareness of the health benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption, promote healthy diet and lifestyle, reduce food waste and food losses, improving food production by making it more sustainable through innovation and technology in line with UN development objectives.
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Disposable plastic is a huge threat to the health of the planet
A problem that not only concerns the health of the fauna, but also ours. Plastic, which ends up in the food chain, puts commercial fishing and aquaculture at risk. A significant risk for 1.4 billion people for which fish is one of the main sources of protein. 80% of the waste consists of plastic.- animal welfare
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- european green deal
- face masks
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2021 edition of Veganuary was a triumph!
582,538 people signed up to try a month as vegans in January, far exceeding the target of 500 thousand and the record of last year of 400 thousand. This shows how Veganuary is able to involve different people, even those who would like to approach a vegetable diet and are looking for useful advice and information.
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How can we restore the primordial link between environment and people?
Urban development has compromised that primordial link that united the environment and people. How is it possible to restore it?
By a conscious and responsible lifestyle. Every daily gesture directly affects our well-being and our surroundings.
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Whales can help us fight climate change
The attempt to increase the number of whales could be seen as a benign form of geo-engineering. A large whale absorbs on average 33 tonnes of CO2, while a tree, for example, stores less than 50 kg annually.- animal welfare
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1/3 of our food is directly dependent on insect pollination
In Europe alone, more than 4000 types of vegetables we eat depend on bees. If these precious insects disappear, the consequences for food production and the environment would be devastating. Who would pollinate crops?- agriculture
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Exotic paradise of plastics
In recent days, monsoon rains and winds blowing from west to east have brought huge amounts of marine plastic waste to Indonesia's main beaches.- animal welfare
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- microplastic
- nanoplastics
- nature
- no plastic
- ocean
- organic
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- plastic free
- plastic pollution
- pollution
- protect the ocean
- recycle
- reduce
- renewables
- reusable
- reuse
- rubbish
- save water
- seas
- single use plastic ban
- single use plastics
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Join Veganuary for your health and the health of the Planet
January is the perfect time to put yourself to the test: it's Veganuary month (a word born from the union of vegan and January, vegan and January), an initiative that helps people around the world to try the vegan diet and lifestyle for 31 days. Participants receive a daily email with information and insights, as well as tasty recipes and tips on how to replace ingredients that contain animal products.
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Vegetable materials for cars, new frontier of luxury
Many car manufacturers are saying goodbye to leather and are switching to natural, vegetable-derived or synthetic materials. From tweed to eco-leather, the new frontier of car upholstery is recycling and sustainability.- animal welfare
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- bamboo textiles
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The Real Impact of Fireworks
Made of harmful plastics and chemical compounds, fireworks don't only cause ground pollution, but can seriously affect the quality of the air we breathe. There are alternatives. -
The UN Sustainable Development Agenda
Today, progress is being made in many places, but, overall, action to meet the Goals is not yet advancing at the speed or scale required. 2020 needs to usher in a decade of ambitious action to deliver the Goals by 2030.- agriculture
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- forests
- fossil fuels
- garbage
- green deal
- health
- indigenous people
- international
- investment
- marine life
- marine protected area
- nature
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- ocean
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- pandemic
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- plastic free
- plastic pollution
- pollution
- protect the forests
- protect the ocean
- recycle
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- renewables
- reusable
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- rubbish
- save food
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- single use plastic ban
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