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  • Dawn Hammon
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Traditional apparel production often comes at a cost to the environment, as well as risk to the people making the products. Goat Organic Apparel has set out to change that with clothing that makes a bold statement in favor of human rights and ethical manufacturing. Goat Organic Apparel has a...

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Corporate Responsibility

Research finds people want Apple and Samsung to go green

  • Dawn Hammon
  • 10/05/2021

Smartphones have become an essential part of most people’s daily functions. Such a massive industry has the potential to have an extensive environmental impact, from production, to the waste cycle. Smartphone manufacturers are showing signs of accountability through efforts to incorporate recycled materials...

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  • Bonface Landi
  • 10/05/2021

A wildlife habitat has been destroyed after 127,000 gallons of oil spilled along the Huntington Beach coast in Orange County, California. Officials are working round the clock to clean up the shores. The leak started on Saturday, about 5 miles off the coast, and continued for several hours. Currently, divers are...

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  • Dawn Hammon
  • 10/05/2021

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Pollution

Largest nature reserve in Jordan threatened by copper mining

  • Bonface Landi
  • 10/05/2021

Dana Biosphere Reserve is the largest and most ecologically diverse protected region in Jordan. The reserve extends over 300 square kilometers and includes a mix of natural features that give it its natural beauty. The shallow valleys, mountain ridges, plains, indigenous trees and wildlife diversity make the biosphere...

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Electronics

Clean solar light right in your pocket

  • KC Morgan
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Namene Solar are the makers behind Occa, a portable solar light and headlamp, striving to put a clean source of light in everyone's hands. That's why when you buy one of these lamps, the company will donate one of them to families who live off the grid and have to rely on kerosene lamps. This is a much cleaner,...

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