Impacts – Problem & Solutions Archives

ACCOUNTABLE AUDIT
The systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining audit evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which the audit criteria are fulfilled.

ACCREDITATION
The process of qualifying, endorsing and licensing entities that perform certification. In other words, accreditation is certifying the certifier.

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 global coffee crisis is coming
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
Solution: The race to save endangered foods
Solution: Regenerative secret - Kiss the ground

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
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

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)
In computer science, AI (sometimes called machine intelligence) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans.
Problem/Solution: AI pros and cons
Problem/Solution: Artificial intelligence and consciousness
Problem/Solution: China is using AI in classrooms
Problem/Solution: China’s widespread surveillance
Problem/Solution: In the age of AI
Problem/Solution: Russia’s ‘Big Brother’ facial recognition system
Problem/Solution: The race for quantum supremacy

AUGMENTED REALITY
Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory.
Solution: What are AR & VR
Solution: Brain powered AR & VR headsets
Solution: Mindleap AR & VR Neurogoggles

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

BIOPHILIA
Biophilia, which literally translates to “love of life,” is the idea that this fascination and communion with nature stem from an innate, biologically-driven need to interact with other forms of life such as animals and plants.
Solution: Biophilic design
Solution: When trees meet buildings
Solution: Installing a green wall

CARBON FOOTPRINT
Measure of the impact that human activity has on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced.
Problem: Air travel and air pollution - Part 1 (2017)
Problem: Air travel and air pollution Part 2 (2017)
Problem: Are eco-friendly flight impossible? (2020)
Problem: Carbon footprint
Problem: Is cloud computing bad for the environment?
Problem: The carbon footprint of the internet
Solution: Carbon Engineering – Carbon Capture Plant
Solution: Carbon Farming – An industry of the future
Solution: Carbon trading
Solution: How to Limit Your Travel Carbon Footprint
Solution: How carbon pricing works
Solution: How to change diet to shrink your carbon footprint
Solution: 10 ways to reduce your online carbon footprint
Solution: Visualising CO2
Solution: What carbon tax means for you?

CARBON NEUTRAL
Carbon neutral means a nation absorbs as much CO2 from the atmosphere as they emit from burning fossil fuel and other sources. It allow companies to measure the amount of carbon they release and offset that with a reduction in emissions or a removal of carbon. This can include buying carbon credits to make up the difference, making it appealing to companies that produce a lot of emissions. This is slightly different Net Zero Emissions.
Solution: Carbon Neutral, what does it mean?
Solution: Carbon neutral future? Costa Rica is showing us the way

CARBON NEGATIVE
Requires a company to remove or sequester more CO₂ from the atmosphere than is emitted. This is better than Net Zero or Carbon Neutral, and might include a bioenergy process with carbon capture and storage.
Solution: The World's First Carbon Negative Country

CARBON – NET ZERO EMISSIONS
Net zero emissions mean that any carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from the company’s activities is balanced by an equivalent amount being removed. Reaching net zero means removing human made CO2 emissions from the atmosphere through reduction and offsetting.
Problem: The Climate Crisis: Towards Zero Carbon
Solution: What is Net Zero?
Solution: Net zero climate plans
Solution: China’s Next Economic Transformation: Going Carbon Neutral by 2060

CARBON OFFSETTING
Negating – or offsets – the same amount of carbon emissions we release into the atmosphere by simply buying carbon credits to cancel out our emissions on a voluntary or compliance basis by government policy. The credits are related to a wide array of environmentally friendly projects, such as protecting the Amazon rainforests, or providing renewable electricity to communities in developing economies.

CARBON POSITIVE
Requires a company to remove or sequester more CO₂ from the atmosphere than is emitted and contribute the additional energy created on site than the building requires and feed it back to the grid. This is an additional ‘positive’ or ‘net export’. This is better than Net Zero or Carbon Neutral.

CERTIFICATION
Verification by a conformity assessment body that a management system conforms to the requirements of a standard.
Solution: EarthCheck Certification
Solution: EarthCheck’s Key Performance Areas

CIRCULAR ECONOMY
An economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources (also referred to as "circularity"). Circular systems employ reuse, sharing, repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing and recycling to create a closed-loop system, minimising the use of resource inputs and the creation of waste, pollution and carbon emissions.
Problem: The dark side of the circular economy
Solution: Dutch business and circular economy
Solution: Circular economy explained

CITIZEN SCIENCE
The scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur (or nonprofessional) scientists (also known as community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, public participation in scientific research or volunteer monitoring.

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: 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: Rich vs. Poor: Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?

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

COMPOSTING
An aerobic method (meaning that it requires the presence of air) of decomposing organic solid wastes or recycling organic material into a humus-like material, known as compost, which is a good fertilizer for plants.

COMMERCE
Trading and the accumulation of wealth. Uncontrolled, commerce has had negative impacts, but conducted in a more holistic and sustainable way, it can be a positive contributor

COMMUNITY
A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government. A group of people having common interests. People matter and it is the right of every person to have their basic needs met and enhancing the well-being of communities is a fundamental obligation of all

CONSERVATION
The protection of plants and animals, natural areas, 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. Conservation safeguard biodiversity and the integrity of the ecosystem services it provides which support global needs.
Solution: Conservation Philosophy
Solution: Conservation International
Solution: Our Planet. What is biodiversity?
Solution: People need biodiversity
Solution: What would a world without humans be like?
Solution: 5 Inspirational Animal Conservation Stories

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
CSR helps a company be socially accountable—to itself, its stakeholders, and the public. CSR is a broader concept than corporate sustainability and both focus on helping companies run in a way that allows them to be ethically profitable—never at the expense of others. Both help companies make a positive impact on those around them.

3 Differences Between Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability
Vision - CSR often looks backward and reflects on what a company has done to contribute to society. Corporate sustainability looks forward and develops a sustainable strategy for the future.
Target - CSR initiatives are often opinion formers (e.g., media, politicians, and pressure groups). Corporate sustainability looks at the whole value chain (i.e., everyone from end-consumers to stakeholders).
Motivation - The motivation and driving force behind CSR initiatives is to protect a company’s reputation. For corporate sustainability, the drive has more to do with creating new opportunities for emerging markets.

CULTURE
The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group. Also the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time. Our world is culturally diverse an celebrating commonality is what nurtures understanding and respecting difference is crucial to our future.
Problem: Disappearing Tribal Cultures
Problem: Disappearing languages
Problem: Disappearing World – The secret of Mongolia
Problem: Loss of language around the world
Problem: Mongolia: From the Steppe to the Slum
Problem: The Eskimo’s Dilema
Problem: The last speakers
Problem: Unique cultural traditions that may soon disappear
Solution: Working to preserve disappearing cultures in Kenya

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

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
Solution: How to save our forests and rewild our planet
Solution: The story of REDD: A real solution to deforestation?
Solution: Regreening the planet
Solution: 23% of the China is now covered in forest
Solution: Climate change: the trouble with trees
Solution: Cutting Down Millions of Trees is Actually a Good Thing

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 – 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

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

EARTH DAY – APRIL 22^ND
Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, it now includes events coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network in more than 193 countries.
Problem: Planet of the Humans

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

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organisation’s environmental aspects.

ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT
A method to measure human demand on natural capital, i.e. the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an economy. It tracks this demand through an ecological accounting system.

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

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Part of an organisation’s management system used to develop and implement its environmental policy and manage its environmental aspects.

ETHICAL PURCHASING / PROCUREMENT
Pertains to intentionally purchasing products which are manufactured with minimal harm to animals, environment and humans. The purpose is to choose companies that adhere to Supplier Code of Conduct on human rights, corruption, labour conditions, environmental impacts & track scope 3 carbon emissions.
Solution: A response to Modern Slavery - Ethical Purchasing
Solution: Sustainable Procurement Practitioners: Instilling sustainability through global supply chains

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)

FOODPRINT
The environmental pressures created by the food demands of individuals, organizations, and geopolitical entities including multiple parameters to quantify the overall environmental impact of food, including carbon footprinting, water footprinting, and foodshed mapping.
Problem: Foodprint

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

GREEN NEW DEAL
Green New Deal (GND) proposals call for public policy to address climate change along with achieving other social aims like job creation and reducing economic inequality. The name refers back to the New Deal, a set of social and economic reforms and public works projects undertaken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression.
Solution: Green new deal explained

GREENHOUSE GASES
A gas that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range, causing the greenhouse effect.
Problem: How do greenhouse gasses work?
Problem: The greenhouse gas effect

GREYWATER
Wastewater generated in households or office buildings from streams without fecal contamination. Sources are all streams except for the wastewater from toilets including sinks, showers, baths, washing machines or dishwashers. Also known as sullage.

GUERRILLA HUMANITARIANISM
Tactically and efficiently take a solution directly to a problem
Solution: A new way of providing clean water

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

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

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
The descendants of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived, and practice unique traditions and retain social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that are clearly different from those of the dominant societies in which they live. It is estimated that there are more than 370 million indigenous people spread across 70 countries worldwide.
Solution: Indigenous explained
Solution: Indigenous communities and climate change

INVASIVE SPECIES
An invasive species is an introduced organism that negatively alters its new environment. Although their spread can have beneficial aspects, invasive species adversely affect the invaded habitats and bioregions, causing ecological, environmental, and/or economic damage.
Problem: Invasive species

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

OFF-GRID
A characteristic of buildings and a lifestyle designed in an independent manner without reliance on one or more public utilities.
Solution: A simpler way

PANDEMIC
An epidemic occurring on a scale that crosses international boundaries, usually affecting people on a worldwide scale. A disease or condition is not a pandemic merely because it is widespread or kills many people; it must also be infectious such as Covid-19.
Problem: Covid 19 from bats to humans
Problem: Rich countries make Covid 19 last longer
Problem: The next pandemics could come from farms
Problem: Covid 19 impact on conservation
Solution: Immediate action to stop extinction
Solution: Covid 19 vaccine
Solution: Coronavirus message from nature

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

RECYCLING
Problem: Recycling clothes
Problem: Recycling is not working
Problem: Exposing recycling myths
Problem: Toxic eWaste
Problem: Trash island in Maldives
Problem: Why China is killing global recycling industry
Problem: What really happens to your recycling
Solution: Chemical recycling of plastic
Solution: China trash bins know who you are
Solution: Cleaning up eWaste
Solution: Ocean clean-up & recycling

RENEWABLE ENERGY
Solution: Renewable energy 101
Solution: Breakthrough in renewable energy

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

RESPONSIBILITY
Accountability for something within one’s power, control or management.

RISK MANAGEMENT
The culture, processes and structures that are directed towards realising potential opportunities whilst managing adverse effects.

REWILDING
The planned reintroduction of a plant or animal species and especially a keystone species or apex predator (such as the gray wolf or lynx) into a habitat from which it has disappeared (as from hunting or habitat destruction) in an effort to increase biodiversity and restore the health of an ecosystem.
Problem: Extinction Britain
Problem: Wildlife trafficking
Problem: Pangolin, animal on the edge
Problem: Rewilding Scotland
Solution: Rewilding Brexit Britain
Solution: Rewilding as a biodiversity engine
Solution: Save Our Forests and Rewild Our Planet
Solution: What if we set aside half the planet for wildlife

SCIENCE
Any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. In general, a science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws.
Problem: Why don’t we trust science
Solution: Understanding the science of climate change

SLAVERY
Condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons.
Problem: Slavery routes (Part 1)
Problem: Slavery routes (Part 2)
Problem: Slavery routes (Part 3)
Problem: Slavery routes (Part 4)

SOCIAL JUSTICE
Social justice means that everyone’s human rights are respected and protected. Everyone has equal opportunities. This doesn’t guarantee that society will be perfect and everyone will always be happy. However, everyone will have a fighting chance at the life they want. They aren’t held back by things out of their control like systemic obstacles or discrimination.
Problem: HongKong’s huge protest
Problem: Myanmar protest
Slution: What is social justice?

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

STAKEHOLDERS
The English word stakeholder means "partner". It means external or internal groups of people who have an economic, financial or ideal interest in the positive course of a project or an entrepreneurial process.

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.
Solution: Sustainable Travel and Tourism NOW
Sustainability Solutions

NOW Force for Good Alliance

Travel Carbon Calculator & Offesetting Tool

SUPPLY CHAIN – CIRCULAR
In a circular supply chain, products are disassembled or reduced to their raw materials form, and remade into sellable products – thus allowing businesses to achieve the environmental benefits of recycling while recouping costs in the process.

SUPPLY CHAIN – TOURISM
A brief introduction to tourism supply chains

SUPPLY CHAIN - SUSTAINABILITY
A sustainable supply chain is one that fully integrates ethical and environmentally responsible practices into a competitive and successful model. End-to-end supply chain transparency is critical; sustainability initiatives must extend from raw materials sourcing, to last-mile logistics, and even to product returns and recycling processes.
Solution: Build a sustainable supply chain management system
Solution: Supply chain sustainability: A Force for Good
Solution: Sustainability in the supply chain management

SUPPLY CHAIN – TRANSPARENCY
Supply chain transparency refers to the ability and willingness of a business to openly disclose information about the provenance of goods and labor and end-to-end supply chain practices. Digital technologies - blockchain and RFID sensors - can now obtain an accurate and irrefutable record of all the products and suppliers along the entire supply chain journey.
Blockchain for Supply Chain Transparency & Traceability
The Age of Transparent Supply Chains

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?

TORNADOES
A violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground.
Problem: Tornadoes

TOURISM
Travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.
Problem: Overtourism
Problem: The impact of COVID-19 on tourism
Problem: The rise and fall of cruising industry
Problem: The year Bali tourism stopped
Problem: Tourism so slowly picking up in SEAsia
Problem: Voluntourism - Doing more harm than good
Solution: How will Covid-19 change travel?
Solution: Restart tourism during a pandemic

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
Solution: The social impact of travel & tourism

TRAFFICKING
Also known as human trafficking or modern-day slavery, is a crime that involves compelling or coercing a person to provide labor or services, or to engage in commercial sex acts.
Problem: 21st century bride slaves
Problem: Child brides India
Problem: Modern day slavery – sex worker USA
Problem: Nameless
Problem: Preying on young boys
Problem: Sex slavery Nigeria
Problem: Sex slavery Europe
Problem: Sex slavery Columbia
Problem: Sex slavery Mumbai
Problem: Sex slavery Bangladesh
Problem: Silicon Valley's online slave market
Solution: Coalition against trafficking in women
Solution: ECPAT
Solution: Exodus Cry
Solution: Right4Girls

TRUST
To believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you, or that something is safe and reliable. Annual survey - Edelman Trust Barometer.
Problem/Solution: 2021: Declaring information bankrupcy
Problem/Solution: 2020: Trust and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Problem/Solution: 2020: Ethics and Competence
Problem/Solution: 2019: Trust at Work
Problem/Solution: 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer

VFM – VALUE FOR MONEY
A measure of quality that assesses the monetary cost of the product or service against the quality and/or benefits of that product or service, taking into account subjective factors such as fitness for purpose, along with whole-of-life costs such as installation, training, maintenance and disposal, and wastage.

VIRUS
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
Problem: Flu Virus
Problem: Coronavirus is not a flu … it’s worse
Problem: Covid 19 and the rise of zoonotic diseases
Problem: We're melting the Arctic and reviving deadly germs
Problem: Where coronavirus started
Problem: Why pandemics like covid19 keeps happening
Solution: How coronavirus is changing the world
Solution: The future of cities after Covid
Slution: Vaccine side effects are actually a good thing

VIRTUAL REALITY
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (e.g. video games), education (e.g. medical or military training) and business (e.g. virtual meetings)
Solution: Neuroscience leading to VR
Solution: Virtual reality, fake news and future of fact
Solution: VR Mind Control Is HERE! And It Works!
Solution: What are AR & VR

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

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 - 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 - 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
Solution: Canadians get creative in solving food waste problem
Solution: Tackling Food Waste With Five Leaders in Sustainability

WASTE - METAL
Problem: Deadly waste from raw materials

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 – 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
Problem: Coronavirus waste
Problem: Why 99% of ocean plastic pollution is missing
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
Solution: Plastic Pollution Coalition

WASTE – RUBBER TIRES
Problem: Rubber tires – a dirty business
Problem: Particles From Tires May Be Polluting Oceans and Beaches

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
Problem/Solution: Can Sea Water Desalination Save The World?
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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