Impacts – Problem & Solutions Archives

AGRICULTURE / FARMING
The science and art of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities.
Problem: Industrial agriculture - Soyalism
Problem: Zoonotic Risk: Covid 19 and factory farming
Problem: Meat Farming: Farm to Fridge
Problem: Meat Farming: Cowspiracy (Trailer)
Problem: Fish Farming: Salmonopoly
Problem: Fish Farming: Salmon Confidential
Problem: Fish Farming: Billion Pound Fish
Problem: Fish Farming: Artifishal
Problem: Geese Farming: Fois gras
Problem: Meat farming: Meet your meat
Problem: The inside look at factory farms
Solution: Aerofarms uses no soil and 95% less water
Solution: Ethical farming and organic meat
Solution: Ethical Farming - Eggs
Solution: Ethical Farming - Chickens
Solution: Ethical Farming - Cows
Solution: Ethical Farming - Goats
Solution: Ethical Farming - Ducks
Solution: Ethical Farming - Pigs
Solution: Ethical Farming - Lamb
Solution: Ethical Farming - Rabbits
Solution: Living soil
Solution: Regenerative Agriculture - From the ground up
Solution: Regenerative Agriculture – The Story of Meat
Solution: Regenerative Agriculture – The Story of Diary
Solution: Regenerative Agriculture – The Story of Leather
Solution: Regenerative Agriculture – The Story of Wool
Solution: From the ground up: Regenerative agriculture
Solution: Regenerative Renegades

ANIMAL WELFARE
The well-being of non-human animals using measures such as longevity, disease, immunosuppression, behavior, physiology, and reproduction.
Problem: Animal welfare vs fois gras
Problem: Behind the dolphin’s smile
Problem: Inside the Dark World of Captive Wildlife Tourism | National Geographic
Problem: Shocking things factory farms have the legal right to do
Problem: The global wildlife trade
Problem: Elephant rides in Thailand: Fun or cruel? | DW Documentary
Solution: The animal welfare behind the meat we buy
Solution: Animal welfare certification
Solution: Animal welfare is a political issue
Solution: Five freedom of animal welfare

BIODIVERSITY
The total variety of all life on earth. The variability of life on Earth which is typically a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level.
Problem: Our planet, our business
Solution: How to save our planet
Solution: Learning to protect biodiversity
Solution: The fight against Ecocide
Solution: What is biodiversity

CARBON FOOTPRINT
The total amount of CO2 we create in our lives, from the fuel we put in our car, the oil, gas or coal we use for cooking and keeping our homes warm or cool, or the buses, trains and planes we take to travel.
Problem: Is cloud computing bad for the environment?
Problem: The carbon footprint of the internet
Solution: 10 ways to reduce your online carbon footprint
Solution: Carbon Engineering – Carbon Capture Plant
Solution: Carbon Farming – An industry of the future
Solution: How to change diet to shrink your carbon footprint
Solution: How carbon pricing works
Solution: What carbon tax means for you?

CLIMATE SCIENCE
Also known as Climatology (from Greek κλίμα, klima, "place, zone"; and -λογία, -logia) the scientific study of climate, scientifically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of time.
Solution: Climate Science – What you need to know
Solution: Causes and effects of climate change

CLIMATE CRISES
A term describing global warming and climate change, and their consequences.
Problem: Rising threat from the seas
Problem: The future of the Arctic
Problem: The carbon bomb
Problem: The big banks fuel climate destruction
Problem: Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change
Problem: Oxfam - Carbon inequality
Problem: As Climate Crisis Has Worsened, So Has Global Economic Inequality
Problem: Climate change causes Islands to disappear
Solution: Can climate change stop if we stop emitting carbon?
Solution: Clean air machine
Solution: Carbon farming: Harnessing the power of soil
Solution: Droughts and floods
Solution: Exploring and protecting the Antarctic
Solution: How to save our frozen world – clean energy
Solution: Fine tuning the planet
Solution: Nature could help tackle the impact of rising sea levels
Solution: Plants that can help solve climate change
Solution: Soil solution to carbon problems
Solution: The best ways to reduce your carbon footprint
Solution: The race is on: Secrets and solutions of climate
Solution: The solution to climate change is all around us
Solution: What coronavirus taught us & applying it to climate change
Solution: The Climate Crisis: Towards Zero Carbon
Solution: Copenhagen: Creating the World's First Carbon Neutral Capital
Solution: Rich vs. Poor: Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?

CONSERVATION
The protection of plants and animals, natural areas, and interesting and important structures and buildings, especially from the damaging effects of human activity.

A plan for avoiding the unnecessary use of natural materials, such as wood, water, or fuel, that exist in limited amounts in order to make certain that they will be available for as long a time as possible.
Solution: Conservation Philosophy
Solution: Conservation International

CERTIFICATION
Certification is the award given to a business, product, process, or service.
Solution: EarthCheck Certification
Solution: EarthCheck’s Key Performance Areas

DEFORESTATION
The removal of a forest or stand of trees from land which is then converted to a non-forest use. Fact: Between 15 - 18 million hectares of forest, an area the size of Belgium are destroyed every year, on average 2,400 trees are cut down each minute.
Problem: Deforestation
Problem: The war for the rainforest’s most valuable trees
Problem: How palm oil is linked to deforestation
Problem: How deforestation gives rise to pandemics
Problem: Virus imperils Amazon deforestation
Solution: Agroforestry: A solution to deforestation.
Solution: How farms and forests can co-exist.
Solution: How to save our forests and rewild our planet
Solution: The story of REDD: A real solution to deforestation?
Solution: Regreening the planet

DESIGN – Sustainable City Development
Also known as urban sustainability, or eco-city (also “ecocity”) is a city designed with consideration for social, economic, environmental impact (commonly referred to as the triple bottom line), and resilient habitat for existing populations, without compromising the ability of future generations to experience the same.
Solution: Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future | Bjarke Ingels
Solution: Copenhagen, Denmark
Solution: Dubai
Solution: Green China Rising
Solution: Singapore
Solution: The most sustainable cities in the world
Solution: The urban green
Solution: Part 3 Net Zero Evolution
Solution: Green Architecture Saving the World | Visiting Sustainable Buildings from Across the Planet
Solution: How Sustainability Is Bringing Architecture Back Down to Earth

DESIGN – Sustainable interior furniture and fixture
Reflect the concept of environmental protection and awareness, and aim to have minimal to zero impact on the environment.
Solution: Mater design
Solution: Turning seaweed into furniture
Solution: Reforest design

DESIGN – BIOPHILIC
Biophilic design is design that cultivate the love of living things and connect with nature.
Solution: Biophilic cities
Solution: Biophilic design

DESIGN – Zero Net or Near Zero Energy or Energy Plus Buildings
Zero net energy buildings get half or more of their energy from the grid, and return the same amount over the course of a year. Buildings that produce a surplus of energy over the year may be called "energy-plus buildings" and buildings that consume slightly more energy than they produce are called "near-zero energy buildings" or "ultra-low energy houses".
Solution: Buildings of the future: Net zero building
Solution: How net zero buildings can help the climate crisis
Solution: Net zero energy building

DESIGN – Sustainable Green Buildings & Interiors
It’s about doing less damage and contributes to the health of a place, use less energy and materials, have a healthier and more comfortable spaces for occupants, has lower environmental impact, are relatively low cost to run and are more valuable properties in the long term.
Solution: Bamboo homes by Elora Hardy
Solution: Ecovative Design – Manufactured wood without trees
Solution: Folding homes from shippling containers
Solutions:Recycling shipping containers
Solutions:Recycling shipping containers into sustainable homes
Solution: How green roofs can help cities
Solution: How sustainability is bringing architecture back to earth
Solution: Net zero neighbourhood
Solution: This old house – The net zero bungalow
Solution: Sustainable design: Lifecycle Thinking
Solution: Sustainable lamps grown from mushrooms
Solution: The fungi in your future
Solution: Tree top house

ELECTRIC VEHICLES
A vehicle that uses one or more electric motors or traction motors for propulsion, and may be powered through a collector system by electricity from off-vehicle sources, or may be self-contained with a battery, solar panels, fuel cells or an electric generator to convert fuel to electricity. EVs include, but are not limited to, road and rail vehicles, surface and underwater vessels, electric aircraft and electric spacecraft.
Problem: Are electric cars really green?
Problem: Are electric cars really better for the environment?
Solution: The truth about hydrogen fuel cell technology

ENERGY
In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object.
Problem: Surprising places we waste energy
Problem: Renewable energy
Solution: How gasification turns trash to energy

HUMAN EXPLOITATION & MODERN SLAVERY
Also known as human trafficking, the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal.
Problem: Child marriage in India: Teenage girls forced to marry
Problem: Child slaves
Problem: How does modern day slavery happen?
Problem: How human traffickers trap women into domestic servitude
Problem: Human trafficking (Documentary)
Problem: Modern slavery – A different lens
Problem: Modern slavery (Documentary)
Problem: Slavery in the chocolate industry
Solution: ECPAT International
Solution: Inside The Fight Against Online Child Sex Abuse

EXTINCTION
The termination of an organism or species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.
Problem: Vanishing: The extinction crisis is worse than we think
Problem: What Does The Sixth Mass Extinction Mean For Humans?
Problem: We need immediate action to stop extinction crisis
Solution: Top 10 Ways To Protect Endangered Species

FAIR TRADE
An arrangement designed to help producers in developing countries achieve sustainable and equitable trade relationships. Members of the Fair Trade movement add the payment of higher prices to exporters, as well as improved social and environmental standards.
Solution: What is Fair Trade?
Solution: Why Fair Trade is so important

FOSSIL FUEL
Any combustible organic material, as oil, coal, or natural gas, derived from the remains of former life.
Problem: Fossil fuel industry underwrite and sponsor the UN climate talks for years
Problem: Harsh new laws are protecting fossil fuel
Solution: Imagine a world without fossil fuel

FOOD
Any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. Food is usually of plant, animal or fungal in origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals.
Problem: Meat: Why beef is the worse food for the climate
Problem: Seafood: How much plastic do you eat?
Problem: The "natural" label on your food is baloney
Problem: Toxic food – China’s food safety
Solution: Food choices
Solution: Let food be your medicine
Solution: Next Gen Farming Without Soil and 90% Less Water
Solution: Organic food: Hype or Hope
Solution: Regenerative farming: The future of food
Solution: The diet that helps fight climate change
Solution: The Game Changers (The Film)
Solution: The race to save endangered food
Solution: We are what we eat - Better brain health
Solution: Vegan 2019 (The Film)

GREENWASHING
A form of marketing spin in which green PR (green values) and green marketing are deceptively used to persuade the public that an organization's products, aims and policies are environmentally friendly and therefore ‘better’; appeal to nature.
Problem: Greenwash Today – Suffer Tomorrow
Problem: Greenwashing – The Fiji Water Story
Solution: How to spot greenwashing brands

HUGS
A form of endearment, universal in human communities, in which two or more people put their arms around the neck, back, or waist of one another and hold each other closely.
Solution: Different types of hugs
Solution: Hug a tree to lose the coronavirus blues
Solution: The hug that helped change medicine
Solution: Tree hugging meditation
Solution: Why hugging a tree is good for you

LIFESTYLE
The interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture.
Problem: Compulsive Shopping
Problem: Shop til you drop: The crisis of consumerism
Problem: The Cult of Materialism
Problem: Money, happiness and eternal life – Greed 1/2
Problem: Money, happiness and eternal life – Greed 2/2
Solution: A simpler way of life
Solution: Collaborative Consumption
Solution: Conscious Consumerism
Solution: Essentialism: The discipline pursuit for less
Solution: How do you measure happiness
Solution: Living sustainably in a city
Solution: Living a Radically Simple Permaculture Life
Solution: Minimalism: A documentary about the important things
Solution: Minimalist: Living with less
Solution: Sustainable purchasing
Solution: Zero waste living
Solution: A Day in My Life with Zero Waste
Solution: A Simpler Way
Solution: 100 Zero waste swaps you have to try
Solution: Zero waste travel. What to pack
Solution: Zero waste travel essentials

MOVEMENTS (grassroot)
An organized effort undertaken by groups of individuals in a given geographic area to bring about changes in social policy or influence an outcome, often of a political issue.
Solution: Black Lives Matter explained
Solution: Extinction Rebellion – What is it and What does it want
Solution: Extinction Rebellion
Solution: Fridays for Future
Solution: Greta Thunberg and the Global Climate Movement
Solution: Hong Kong Anti Government Protest
Solution: Kids against Zoos, Circus and Marine Parks
Solution: Fossil fuel divestment
Solution: Stop Ecocide crime
Solution: The Stonewall Riots
Solution: The history of the green movement in Europe
Solution: Why fossil free is a movement
Solution: Climate activist Greta Thunberg on the power of a movement
Solution: Leadership and A Law of Ecocide: Polly Higgins
Solution: Ecocide -Why earth destruction is a crime

POLLUTION
The action of polluting especially by environmental contamination with man-made waste.
Problem: Air: Air pollution 101
Problem: Air: China – effects of air pollution (Part 1of2)
Problem: Air: China – effects of air pollution (Part 2of2)
Problem: Air: Mongolia – Dying to breathe
Problem: Water: The Citarum, Indonesia’s most polluted river
Problem: Water: The Yamuna, India's most polluted river
Problem: Water: Pollution effects on the environment
Problem: Air: What makes Delhi's air so deadly
Solution: Air: China – Dealing with air pollution
Solution: Air: Five air pollution solutions from around the world
Solution: Air: India seeks ways to clean New Delhi's dangerous air pollution
Solution: Air: Italy – Pollution eating cement
Solution: Air: Mexico City – Eco solutions for air pollution
Solution: Water: Response to marine oil spills
Solution: Water: Specialists rescue animals in oil spill

RESILIENCE
The quality that allows some people to be knocked down by the adversities of life and come back at least as strong as before.
Solution: How to build a resilient future using ancient wisdom

SOCIAL MEDIA
All media (platforms) that support their users through digital channels in mutual communication and interactive exchange of information.
Problem: Algorithms rule us all
Problem: Are you living an Insta lie?
Problem: How social media is destroying your life
Problem: Why comparing yourself on social media is making you unhappy
Solution: The anti-social – The people not on social media
Solution: Offline is the new luxury

SOCIAL INJUSTICE
A relative concept about the claimed unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens and other incidental inequalities based on the user’s worldview of humanity.
Problem: Racial wealth gap
Problem: Why women are paid less
Problem: Bangladesh plans to relocate Rohingyas to 'refugee island'
Problem: Universal danger of ignoring human rights violations
Solution: Battle for Street Children’s Rights
Solution: Equality matters
Solution: Fighting human rights violations through social media
Solution: Halima Aden on being a UNICEF ambassador, returning to refugee camp
Solution: SEP in Jeresh Refugee Camp
Solution: Social injustice for all
Solution: Unconscious Bias at Work — Making the Unconscious Conscious
Solution: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG)
Also known as Global Goals, a collection of 17 interlinked goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs were set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.
SDG 1 - No Poverty
SDG 2 - No Hunger
SDG 3 - Good Health and Wellbeing
SDG 4 - Quality Education
SDG 5 - Gender Equality
SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 10 - Reduce Inequality
SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Development
SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 13 - Climate Action
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
SDG 15 - Life On Land
SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SDG 17 - Partnership for the Goals
Solution: SDG 2 - Action Against Hunger
Solution: SDG 3 - Care for Children
Solution: SDG 3 - Capdenho
Solution: SDG 5 – Education for All
Solution: SDG 5 – Project Resgate
Solution: SDG 6 – Whole World Water
Solution: SDG 6 – Wine to Water
Solution: SDG 15 – Forest without Frontiers

SUSTAINABILITY
NOW defines sustainability as wellbeing for people and our planet. It’s development and action that takes responsibility for our total impact on the community and the environment, to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The goal is to be carbon neutral/positive and support of the 17 Global Goals with accountability and transparency.

Forum for the Future defines sustainability as a dynamic process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways that simultaneously protect and enhance the Earth’s life support system.
Problem: Sustainable Travel and Tourism NOW
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TECHNOLOGY
The branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
Problem: Cell phones and radiation
Problem: Is the Internet is bad for the environment
Problem: How Instagram is changing travel for the worse
Problem: Why smart phone use is bad for your health?
Solution: Can tech save the planet?

TRAVEL
The movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip.
Problem: Covid-19 and travel
Problem: How cruise ships are destroying the world
Problem: Climate change and travel
Solution: Can eco-tourism help save the oceans?
Solution: Greenest Way to Travel

VIRUS
A submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism, infecting all types of life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea.
Problem: Flu Virus
Problem: Coronavirus is not a flu … it’s worse
Problem: Covid 19 and the rise of zoonotic diseases
Solution: How coronavirus is changing the world
Problem: Where coronavirus started
Problem: Why pandemics like covid19 keeps happening
Solution: The future of cities after Covid

Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use.

WASTE - FASHION
Problem: Fashion – The true cost
Problem: Is fashion destroying the planet?
Problem: Where your old clothes go
Solution: A world of textile recycling
Solution: Fighting back against fast fashion
Solution: From retail to resale
Solution: How Adidas turns plastic into shoes
Solution: Plastic bottle recycled into polyester
Solution: Recycling used denim
Solution: Shirts out of recycled bottles
Solution: War on Waste: Fast Fashion

WASTE - PLASTIC
Problem: A plastic wave
Problem: Dirty Business
Problem: The problem with microplastics
Problem: Why we need to stop plastic pollution in our oceans for good
Problem: Disposable plastic during Covid-19
Solution: Closing the loop: The end of disposable plastic
Solution: Fungus – the plastic of the future
Solution: Scientists discovered recycling solution to plastic problem
Solution: Mushroom – the new plastic
Solution: Sea life sculpture from ocean trash
Solution: The scourge of cities becomes a resource
Solution: The truth about biodegradable plastic
Solution: Turning methane gas into plastic

WASTE – ELECTRONIC
Problem: How e-waste harming the world
Problem: ToxiCity: the world's largest e-waste dump
Problem: The Toxic E-Waste Trade Killing Pakistan's Poorest
Problem: The dark side of electronic waste recycling
Problem: The worlds biggest e-waste site
Solution: How to recycle old electronics

WASTE - FOOD
Problem: Food waste causes climate change
Problem: Food waste is the world’s dumbest problems
Solution: Reducing food waste with tech
Solution: Ugly food

WASTE - PACKAGING
Problem: How online shopping created packaging waste problem
Problem: Takeout creates a lot of trash
Solution: Zero waste packaging made from bamboo
Solution: Mushrooms - the future of packaging

WASTE - METAL
Problem: Deadly waste from raw materials

WATER
An inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless liquid, which is vital for all known forms of life, even though it provides no calories or organic nutrients.
Problem: Countries building economic empires by controlling the worlds water supply
Problem: How much water in the clothes we buy?
Problem: How much water does it take to produce the food we eat?
Problem: World Water Crisis
Solution: Can water desalination save the world?
Solution: How to save fresh water flow
Solution: Solving the world’s water crisis

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