BlogNews (November 15, 2019) Recycling is a daily practice for many of us, but it can be hard to know if it’s really helping the planet like we’d hope. As we toss recyclables into our curbside bins it can feel like an individual action that doesn’t yield much of an impact.
But what we do as individuals feeds into a larger system of many processes, industries, and impacts. While there are no “silver bullets”…
BlogNews (November 4, 2019) After the launch of our Toxic Textiles campaign, you may be wondering how I can make sure children in my family or social network are not being exposed to harmful chemicals? Unfortunately, this is a difficult task.
For example, in our recent Toxic Textile’s report, we found that Carter’s had some of the worst environmental and social practices out of all the US apparel companies…
BlogNews (October 15, 2019) This year, Green America’s chocolate scorecard included a few new brands that are leaders. The scorecard’s ratings are still heavily based on efforts to combat child labor, but we’ve added a new category on deforestation, one of the many issues facing the cocoa industry.
As large chocolate companies continue to explore and refine how they can go beyond certification to improve the…
BlogNews (October 9, 2019) In 2017, we launched Hang Up on Fossil Fuels, a campaign urging major telecommunications companies to rapidly increase their use of renewables to power networks. Back then, the industry was using almost no clean energy and few companies had any plans to increase.
Now, after years of consumer pressure, we’re seeing big moves in the industry – but we aren’t finished yet.
Here are…
BlogNews (September 23, 2019) The Ivory Coast and Ghana are the top producers of cocoa, globally. Cocoa farms in both countries are plagued by child labor, with an estimated two million children working in cocoa fields. These are not children helping on the family farm part-time. These are children who are working full time, day after day, in the fields. Some of them are doing dangerous work, and some are…
BlogNews (September 12, 2019) By Ayate Temsamani, Climate Fellow
The Impact of Telecoms
The US telecom industry uses vast amounts of energy, with the major four companies collectively using over 30 million megawatt hours (MWH) of electric power every year—enough energy to power all the households in New York City.Â
This has mostly come from dirty energy sources, emitting 20 million tons of CO2 every year.…
BlogNews (August 29, 2019) We’ve all seen images of the Amazon on fire. You may have already heard the news that these fires are more extensive than those in the past, with over 80,000 fires this year. You may have also heard folks explaining that this is fire season, and this is normal.
Here’s why it’s not normal: The fires in the Amazon Rainforest this year are not the result of lightning strikes or even…
BlogNews (August 26, 2019) The Problem
Green America recently launched Cool It, our campaign to address harmful emissions causing the climate crisis. The campaign focuses on hydrofluorocarbons, or “HFCs”, extremely potent greenhouse gases that are used as refrigerants in refrigerators and A/C Units.
HFCs are leaking into the atmosphere from faulty equipment and irresponsible disposal, which is dangerous…
BlogNews (August 8, 2019) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Special Report on Climate Change and Land on August 8. While the report is academic in tone, the warnings coming out of it could not be clearer. Our current agricultural and forestry practices, and the resulting climate emissions, are already having devastating impacts on the planet:
The climate crisis is already…
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