Impacts - Problems & Solutions (A-Z) Archives

ACTIVISM
Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.

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.

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

Activism - Climate Justice
Climate justice is a concept that addresses the just division, fair sharing, and equitable distribution of the benefits and burdens of climate change and responsibilities to deal with climate change. Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.
Solution: 350.org
Solution: 2019 Time Person of the Year – Greta Thunberg
Solution: COP24 with Greta Thunberg
Solution: COP25 with Greta Thunberg
Solution: COP26 with Greta Thunberg
Solution: Extinction Rebellion
Solution: Fossil Fuel Divestment
Solution: Fridays for Future
Solution: Stop Ecocide

Activism - Social Justice
Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. 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 and aren’t held back by things out of their control like systemic obstacles or discrimination.
Problem: Bangladesh plans to relocate Rohingyas to 'refugee island'
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
Problem: HongKong’s huge protest
Solution: Is social justice just?
Problem: Myanmar protest
Problem: Racial wealth gap
Solution: SEP in Jeresh Refugee Camp
Solution: Social injustice for all
Solution: Social justice for all: A lasting legacy
Solution: The Origins of Social Justice
Problem: Universal danger of ignoring human rights violations
Solution: Unconscious Bias at Work — Making the Unconscious Conscious
Solution: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Slution: What is social justice?
Solution: What is inequality and social justice?
Problem: Why women are paid less

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: Fish Farming: Artifishal
Problem: Fish Farming: Billion Pound Fish
Problem: Fish Farming: Salmon Confidential
Problem: Fish Farming: Salmonopoly
Problem: Geese Farming: Fois gras
Problem: Industrial agriculture - Soyalism
Problem: Meat Farming: Cowspiracy (Trailer)
Problem: Meat Farming: Farm to Fridge
Problem: Meat farming: Meet your meat
Problem: The global coffee crisis is coming
Problem: The inside look at factory farms
Problem: Zoonotic Risk: Covid 19 and factory farming
Solution: Aerofarms uses no soil and 95% less water
Solution: Ethical Farming - Chickens
Solution: Ethical Farming - Cows
Solution: Ethical Farming - Ducks
Solution: Ethical Farming - Eggs
Solution: Ethical Farming - Goats
Solution: Ethical Farming - Lamb
Solution: Ethical Farming - Pigs
Solution: Ethical Farming - Rabbits
Solution: Ethical farming and organic meat
Solution: From the ground up: Regenerative agriculture
Solution: Living soil
Solution: Regenerative Agriculture - From the ground up
Solution: Regenerative Agriculture – The Story of Diary
Solution: Regenerative Agriculture – The Story of Leather
Solution: Regenerative Agriculture – The Story of Meat
Solution: Regenerative Agriculture – The Story of Wool
Solution: Regenerative Renegades
Solution: Regenerative secret - Kiss the ground
Solution: The race to save endangered foods

ANIMAL CRUELTY
Problem: Artifishal
Problem: Documenting Asia's illegal animal trade
Problem: Fooled by a smile
Problem: Inside look at the exotic animal trade
Problem: Inside the dark world of captive wildlife tourism
Problem: Inside the tanks
Problem: Should we close our zoos?
Problem: Testing 1, 2, 3
Problem: The Forced
Problem: Voiceless – A blue freedom film
Problem: When Wildlife Tourism Hurts Animals
Problem: Wildlife Tourism: Right or wrong?
Solution: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
Solution: World Animal Protection

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: Elephant rides in Thailand: Fun or cruel? | DW Documentary
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
Solution: Animal welfare certification
Solution: Animal welfare is a political issue
Solution: Five freedom of animal welfare
Solution: The animal welfare behind the meat we buy

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: Brain powered AR & VR headsets
Solution: Mindleap AR & VR Neurogoggles
Solution: What are AR & VR

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: Installing a green wall
Solution: When trees meet buildings

CARBON EMISSION – Scope 1
Direct emissions from a business’s operations such as fuel combustion, operation of vehicles and fugitive emissions.

CARBON EMISSION – Scope 2
Indirect emissions resulting from the generation of purchased electricity, heating or cooling and steam by a business.

CARBON EMISSION – Scope 3
Indirect emissions that occur in a business’s value chain such as purchased goods and services, business travel, employee commuting, waste disposal, transportation up- and downstream, investments, leased assets, and franchise activities.

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: 10 ways to reduce your online carbon footprint
Solution: Carbon Engineering – Carbon Capture Plant
Solution: Carbon Farming – An industry of the future
Solution: Carbon trading
Solution: How carbon pricing works
Solution: How to Limit Your Travel Carbon Footprint
Solution: How to change diet to shrink your carbon footprint
Solution: Visualising CO2
Solution: What carbon tax means for you?

CARBON NEGATIVE
Means the same as Climate Positive, which means that activity goes beyond achieving net-zero carbon emissions to create an environmental benefit by removing additional CO2 from the atmosphere.
Solution: The World's First Carbon Negative Country

CARBON NEUTRAL
Means any CO2 released into the atmosphere from a company’s activities is balanced by an equivalent amount being removed. Refers Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions.
Solution: Carbon Neutral, what does it mean?
Solution: Carbon neutral future? Costa Rica is showing us the way

CARBON – NET ZERO CARBON EMISSIONS
Means any CO2 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. (Same as Carbon Neutral)
Problem: The Climate Crisis: Towards Zero Carbon
Problem: China’s Next Economic Transformation: Going Carbon Neutral by 2060
Solution: Net zero climate plans
Solution: What is Net Zero?

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.
Problem: Carbon Offset Scandal
Solution: Can carbon offset really save us from climate change?
Solution: Carbon capture plant does the work of 40million trees
Solution: Carbon Trade for Future
Solution: China – Going Carbon Neutral by 2060
Solution: EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Solution: What is Carbon Trading?

CLIMATE POSITIVE (also known as Carbon Negative)
Means the same as Climate Positive and Carbon Negative, which means that activity goes beyond achieving net-zero carbon emissions to create an environmental benefit by removing additional CO2 from the atmosphere. 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.
Solution: A world without waste
Solution: Butterfly Diagram
Solution: Circular economy explained
Solution: Circulytics - Measuring your transition to circularity
Solution: Dutch business and circular economy
Solution: How Society Can Re-think Progress
Solution: The basics of the circular economy
Problem: The dark side of the circular economy

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 Change
Solution: An introduction to climate change for kids
Problem: Climate Change - Accelerating towards a 2 degree milestone
Problem: Climate Change affect global agriculture within 10 years
Problem: Climate Change is disrupting coastal communities
Problem: Climate Change is speeding up
Problem: How pandemics are linked to climate change

Climate Change - IPCC Reports
UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change
Climate change IPCC report 2021
IPCC's 2021 Climate Report Signals A Clear & Present Danger?
IPCC’s climate change report: What it means for India

CLIMATE CRISES
A term describing global warming and climate change, and their consequences.
Problem: Climate change causes Islands to disappear
Problem: Endgame 2050
Problem: Europe’s melting glaciers
Problem: Oxfam - Carbon inequality
Problem: Rising threat from the seas
Problem: The big banks fuel climate destruction
Problem: The carbon bomb
Problem: The future of the Arctic
Problem: Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change
Solution: Can climate change stop if we stop emitting carbon?
Solution: Carbon farming: Harnessing the power of soil
Solution: Clean air machine
Solution: Droughts and floods
Solution: Exploring and protecting the Antarctic
Solution: Fine tuning the planet
Solution: How to save our frozen world – clean energy
Solution: Nature could help tackle the impact of rising sea levels
Solution: Plants that can help solve climate change
Solution: Rich vs. Poor: Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
Solution: Soil solution to carbon problems
Solution: The Climate Crisis: Towards Zero Carbon
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

CLIMATE NEUTRAL
Refers to reducing all GHG to the point of zero while eliminating all other negative environmental impacts that an organisation may cause.

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: Causes and effects of climate change
Solution: Climate Science – What you need to know

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

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.

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: 5 Inspirational Animal Conservation Stories
Solution: Conservation International
Solution: Conservation Philosophy
Solution: Our Planet. What is biodiversity?
Solution: People need biodiversity
Solution: What would a world without humans be like?

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 World – The secret of Mongolia
Problem: Disappearing languages
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

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: How deforestation gives rise to pandemics
Problem: How palm oil is linked to deforestation
Problem: The war for the rainforest’s most valuable trees
Problem: Virus imperils Amazon deforestation
Solution: 23% of the China is now covered in forest
Solution: Agroforestry: A solution to deforestation.
Solution: Climate change: the trouble with trees
Solution: Cutting Down Millions of Trees is Actually a Good Thing
Solution: How farms and forests can co-exist.
Solution: How to save our forests and rewild our planet
Solution: How to save our forests and rewild our planet
Solution: Regreening the planet
Solution: The story of REDD: A real solution to deforestation?

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

DESIGN – ENERGY OR ENERGY PLUS BUILDINGS (ZERO NET OR NEAR ZERO)
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 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: Copenhagen, Denmark
Solution: Dubai
Solution: Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future | Bjarke Ingels
Solution: Green Architecture Saving the World | Visiting Sustainable Buildings from Across the Planet
Solution: Green China Rising
Solution: How Sustainability Is Bringing Architecture Back Down to Earth
Solution: Part 3 Net Zero Evolution
Solution: Singapore
Solution: The most sustainable cities in the world
Solution: The urban green

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
Solution: How green roofs can help cities
Solution: How sustainability is bringing architecture back to earth
Solution: Net zero neighbourhood
Solutions: Recycling shipping containers
Solutions: Recycling shipping containers into sustainable homes
Solution: Sustainable design: Lifecycle Thinking
Solution: Sustainable lamps grown from mushrooms
Solution: The fungi in your future
Solution: This old house – The net zero bungalow
Solution: Tree top house

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: Reforest design
Solution: Turning seaweed into furniture

DIGITAL DETOX
A digital detox is when you disconnect from your TV, smartphone, video games, and social media so you can focus on real-life without the distraction of a screen.
Problem: Are you in need of digital detox?
Problem: Digital addiction – Part 1
Problem: Digital addiction – Part 2
Problem: WHO - Video game addiction disorder
Solution: Can digital detox to reset your thinking?

DIVERSITY
The practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.
Problem: Diversity under threat - Indonesia
Problem: The diversity dilema

DROUGHT
A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water
Problem: Colorado river is drying up
Problem: Historic mega drought: West USA
Problem: Shadow of drought: S.California
Problem: The dying Dead Sea

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 better for the environment?
Problem: Are electric cars really green?
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: Renewable energy
Problem: Surprising places we waste energy
Solution: How gasification turns trash to energy
Solution: Inside JET: The world's biggest nuclear fusion experiment
Solution: Is nuclear fusion the answer to clean energy?
Solution: Solar car that drives 500 miles in one charge
Solution: Solar panel for vehicles

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.
Solution: WWF: Measure – How big is your personal environmental footprint?

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

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: We need immediate action to stop extinction crisis
Problem: What Does The Sixth Mass Extinction Mean For Humans?
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

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: How corporations are ruining your health
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: The skinny on obesity
Problem: Toxic food – China’s food safety
Problem: Zero Hunger - Food security and nutrition
Solution: Food choices
Solution: Food for the future
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 Game Changers (The Film)
Solution: The diet that helps fight climate change
Solution: The race to save endangered food
Solution: We are what we eat - Better brain health

FOOD: DIET – OMNIVORE
Someone who consumes both plant and animal based food.
Problem: Omnivore’s dilema

FOOD: VEGETARIAN DIET
Someone who does not eat any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish or by-products of animal slaughter. Vegetarian diets contain various levels of fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, nuts and seeds. The inclusion of dairy and eggs depends on the type of diet followed. The most common types are:
Fruitarian: A diet which predominatly consist of raw fruit.
Lacto-ovo vegetarians: Vegetarians who avoid all animal flesh, but do consume dairy and egg products.
Lacto vegetarians: Vegetarians who avoid animal flesh and eggs, but do consume dairy products.
Ovo vegetarians: Vegetarians who avoid all animal products except eggs.
Vegans: Vegetarians who avoid all animal and animal-derived products.
Flexitarians: Part-time vegetarians (Flexitarians)
Pescatarians: Someone who does not eat meat or poultry but do consume fish
Solution: Lentils: A miracle of nutrition
Solution: The Changemakers
Solution: Vegan 2019

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

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

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

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 DEALS
The European Green Deal (EU) – a package of policy initiatives, which aims to set the EU on the path to a green transition, with the ultimate goal of reaching climate neutrality by 2050. It supports the transformation of the EU into a fair and prosperous society with a modern and competitive economy.

The Green Deal (UK) – a government policy initiative that gave homeowners, landlords and tenants the opportunity to pay for energy efficient home improvements through the savings in their energy bills.
The Green New Deal (USA) - A Congressional resolution introduced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey — first in 2019 then again in 2021 — with the support of more than 100 cosponsors. This resolution lays out goals for upgrading our crumbling infrastructure, modernizing cities, and overhauling energy, transportation, industrial, and agriculture systems to get to 100 percent renewable energy as soon as possible. It includes proposals for how to clean up our air and water and free communities from toxic pollution. And it’s a roadmap for creating high-quality jobs with good wages and benefits, worker protections, and the right to form a union.
Solution: The European Green Deal
Solution: The Green New Deal

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 RIGHTS
Standards that recognize and protect the dignity of all human beings. Human rights govern how individual human beings live in society and with each other, as well as their relationship with the State and the obligations that the State have towards them. Human rights law obliges governments to do some things, and prevents them from doing others. Individuals also have responsibilities: in using their human rights, they must respect the rights of others. No government, group or individual person has the right to do anything that violates another’s rights.
Problem: China’s global threat to human rights
Problem: Danger of ignoring human rights violation
Problem: Syria mass death and torture
Problem: World leaders are failing in human rights (2019)
Solution: Human Rights Watch: The investigators
Solution: The fighters
Solution: Universal declaration of human rights

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION: ETHNIC CLEANSING
The expulsion, imprisonment, or killing of an ethnic minority by a dominant majority in order to achieve ethnic homogeneity. Along with direct removal (deportation, population transfer), it also includes indirect methods aimed at coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction. Although the term ethnic cleansing has no legal definition under international criminal law, it constitutes a crime against humanity.
Problem: China’s transformational camps.

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION - EXPLOITATION
the use of something in order to get an advantage from it
Problem: Child labour for mining mica for planes, car & mobile
Problem: Child labour used to make batteries for ECars
Problem: Congo cobalt mines that exploit children
Problem: Kids killed by criminal exploitation

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION - GENOCIDE
The intentional action to destroy a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Genocide was first recognised as a crime under international law in 1946 by the United Nations General Assembly ( A/RES/96-I ).
Problem: Armenian genocide: The hidden holocaust
Problem: Myanmar: The hidden genocide
Problem: Namimbia genocide
Problem: Rwanda: 25 years after the genocide

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 (Documentary)
Problem: Modern slavery – A different lens
Problem: Slavery in the chocolate industry
Solution: ECPAT International
Solution: Inside The Fight Against Online Child Sex Abuse

ICE
Ice glacier - A body of dense ice formed where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier slowly deform and flow under stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features. They also abrade rock and debris from their substrate to create landforms such as cirques, moraines, or fjords. Glaciers form only on land.

Ice cap - a large body of glacial ice astride a mountain, mountain range, or volcano with an area less than 50,000 km (19,000 sq mi).

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 communities and climate change
Solution: Indigenous explained

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: Money, happiness and eternal life – Greed 1/2
Problem: Money, happiness and eternal life – Greed 2/2
Problem: Shop til you drop: The crisis of consumerism
Problem: The Cult of Materialism
Solution: 100 Zero waste swaps you have to try
Solution: A Day in My Life with Zero Waste
Solution: A Simpler Way
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 a Radically Simple Permaculture Life
Solution: Living sustainably in a city
Solution: Minimalism: A documentary about the important things
Solution: Minimalist: Living with less
Solution: Sustainable purchasing
Solution: Zero waste living
Solution: Zero waste travel essentials
Solution: Zero waste travel. What to pack

LONGEVITY
A long duration of individual life
Problem: Planet of the Humans
Solution: Blue Zones: Growing old healthy
Solution: Island where people live longest in the world
Solution: Sardinia, the secret of longevity
Solution: Scientists trying to reverse aging
Solution: Why Japanese live so long

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: Climate activist Greta Thunberg on the power of a movement
Solution: Ecocide -Why earth destruction is a crime
Solution: Extinction Rebellion
Solution: Extinction Rebellion – What is it and What does it want
Solution: Fossil fuel divestment
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: Leadership and A Law of Ecocide: Polly Higgins
Solution: Stop Ecocide crime
Solution: The Stonewall Riots
Solution: The history of the green movement in Europe
Solution: Why fossil free is a movement

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: Covid 19 impact on conservation
Problem: Rich countries make Covid 19 last longer
Problem: The next pandemics could come from farms
Solution: Coronavirus message from nature
Solution: Covid 19 vaccine
Solution: Immediate action to stop extinction

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: Air: What makes Delhi's air so deadly
Problem: Water: Pollution effects on the environment
Problem: Water: The Citarum, Indonesia’s most polluted river
Problem: Water: The Yamuna, India's most polluted river
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

POVERTY
A state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living.
Problem: A life in extreme poverty
Problem: Can extreme poverty ever be eradicated?
Problem: Extreme poverty in Hong Kong
Problem: Growing up poor
Problem: Keep them poor
Problem: Poor in NY during covid
Problem: Poverty in Europe
Problem: Poverty is the new slavery
Problem: Rise Up: Poverty Alleviation in China
Problem: Why is India still poor?
Problem: Why is there still poverty in America?
Solution: SDG1: A business case about no poverty
Solution: SDG 1: No Poverty

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

REFUGEE
People who have fled war, violence, conflict or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country. People who have been forcibly displaced as a result of environmental factors caused by climate change and natural disasters.
Problem: Climate exodus
Problem: Displaced – droughts and floods
Problem: EU refugee crisis – 5 years on (2020)
Problem: Europe’s climate migrants
Problem: World’s deadliest migrant route
Solution: UNHCR - UN Refugee Agency

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

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.

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: Pangolin, animal on the edge
Problem: Rewilding Scotland
Problem: Wildlife trafficking
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

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

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: Child slaves: A 21st century evil
Problem: Famous Companies That Use Slavery
Problem: Libya’s slave trade
Problem: Maids for sale
Problem: Slavery at sea
Problem: Slavery in a chocolate factory
Problem: Slavery routes (Part 1)
Problem: Slavery routes (Part 2)
Problem: Slavery routes (Part 3)
Problem: Slavery routes (Part 4)
Problem: Slaves in Italy
Problem: The dark secret behind your favorite makeup products
Problem: The deadly cost of cobalt
Solution: US tech giants sued over child labor deaths

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: Offline is the new luxury
Solution: The anti-social – The people not on social media

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.

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 - 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 – TOURISM
A brief introduction to tourism supply chains

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

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.
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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 - Capdenho
Solution: SDG 3 - Care for Children
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

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: How Instagram is changing travel for the worse
Problem: Is the Internet is bad for the environment
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

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 Bangladesh
Problem: Sex slavery Columbia
Problem: Sex slavery Europe
Problem: Sex slavery Mumbai
Problem: Sex slavery Nigeria
Problem: Silicon Valley's online slave market
Solution: Coalition against trafficking in women
Solution: ECPAT
Solution: Exodus Cry
Solution: Right4Girls

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: Climate change and travel
Problem: Covid-19 and travel
Problem: How cruise ships are destroying the world
Solution: Can eco-tourism help save the oceans?
Solution: Greenest Way to Travel
Solution: The social impact of travel & tourism

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: 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer
Problem/Solution: 2019: Trust at Work
Problem/Solution: 2020: Ethics and Competence
Problem/Solution: 2020: Trust and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Problem/Solution: 2021: Declaring information bankrupcy

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.

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: VR Mind Control Is HERE! And It Works!
Solution: Virtual reality, fake news and future of fact
Solution: What are AR & VR

VIRUS
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
Problem: Coronavirus is not a flu … it’s worse
Problem: Covid 19 and the rise of zoonotic diseases
Problem: Flu Virus
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
Solution: Vaccine side effects are actually a good thing

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: The Toxic E-Waste Trade Killing Pakistan's Poorest
Problem: The dark side of electronic waste recycling
Problem: The worlds biggest e-waste site
Problem: ToxiCity: the world's largest e-waste dump
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: Canadians get creative in solving food waste problem
Solution: Reducing food waste with tech
Solution: Tackling Food Waste With Five Leaders in Sustainability
Solution: Ugly food

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: Mushrooms - the future of packaging
Solution: Zero waste packaging made from bamboo

WASTE – PLASTIC
Problem: A plastic wave
Problem: Coronavirus waste
Problem: Dirty Business
Problem: Disposable plastic during Covid-19
Problem: The problem with microplastics
Problem: The war on plastic isn’t working
Problem: Why 99% of ocean plastic pollution is missing
Problem: Why we need to stop plastic pollution in our oceans for good
Problem: Will single use plastic ban save the oceans?
Solution: Closing the loop: The end of disposable plastic
Solution: EU bans 10 single use plastics
Solution: Fungus – the plastic of the future
Solution: Mushroom – the new plastic
Solution: Plastic Pollution Coalition
Solution: Plastic eating enzyme could fight pollution
Solution: Scientists discovered recycling solution to plastic problem
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 – RUBBER TIRES
Problem: Particles From Tires May Be Polluting Oceans and Beaches
Problem: Rubber tires – a dirty business

WASTE – VEHICLE BATTERIES
Problem: Child labour in cobalt trade
Problem: The hidden environmental cost of electric cars
Solution: Recycling car batteries

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 does it take to produce the food we eat?
Problem: How much water in the clothes we buy?
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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