#sustaiability

[green-worldnow-blog]

#sustaiability #sustain #sustainableliving #ecoliving #gogreen #greenfuture #environment #savetheplanet

[rareorchidlondon]

Choosing the Right Ethical Brands

Rare Orchid.London will be opening our E Commerce platform early next year, around February or March 2021. But the question is, would that be too early and will the economy be in the right place to start a whole new ethical business?

We will sell the best ethical chocolate, the best ethical cut flowers and the most beautiful ethical vases. All these products go so nicely hand in hand, that we could not help to bunch them all together in one online shop.

The continuing issues we face though, here at Rare Orchid.London is about choosing the right brands who are genuinely ethical in their scope.

Do they agree with sustainable development, preserving the environment, looking after humanity across the world, combating modern slavery?

In most cases, it can be difficult to identify the supply chain exactly from cradle to grave and all we ask is that our supplier will be aware of the issues just described and make progress towards supporting ethical products by making small gestures towards achieving that.

This may be anything from using less fuel in your car, perhaps by driving less or more efficiently to identifying the sources of your raw materials and buy sustainable ingredients for your chocolate as an example. 

As Rare Orchid.London is a very young and new business and we haven’t even started trading yet in real life, there is so much more to learn about the realties of e-commerce business, the supply chain and marketing.

Hopefully, by the time the Covid vaccination is finally rolled out, the UK economy will be heading northwards and there really will be a great desire for ethical chocolate, flowers and vases.

Mark

Director, Rare Orchid.London

[sulibraries]

Climate change, clean energy, sustainability, recycling, green movement, environmentalism, conservation, eco-friendly, the list goes on!

Today is the perfect day to research these topics in honor of Earth Day. Get some more ideas of resources available through Blackwell Library via our Sustainability Research Guide.

[risingcommons-blog-blog]

You won't see things like this at Rising Commons, I can assure you we will have a more scaled down and simplified approach to planning and building.  I respect their intentions to prepare for a post peak oil world...

Now Dubai, as you all know is completely man made — an oasis in the desert.  What are your thoughts on supreme importation of materials to build on a grande scale level like this?  Could the same objective be achieved using no importation of resources?  Please discuss.

[wildcat2030]

Danish chemists in molecular chip breakthrough

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Electronic components built from single molecules using chemical synthesis could pave the way for smaller, faster and more green and sustainable electronic devices. Now for the first time, a transistor made from just one molecular monolayer has been made to work where it really counts. On a computer chip. The molecular integrated circuit was created by a group of chemists and physicists from the Department of Chemistry Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. Their discovery "Ultrathin Reduced Graphene Oxide Films as Transparent Top-Contacts for Light Switchable Solid-State Molecular Junctions" has just been published online in the prestigious periodical Advanced Materials. The breakthrough was made possible through an innovative use of the two dimensional carbon material graphene. (via Danish chemists in molecular chip breakthrough)

[vincentandned-blog]

Fact

Over time the on-going costs of living in a well-designed straw bale home are significantly less than timber or steel framed homes.

When compared to other construction methods, straw bale homes have a higher insulation value, have greater thermal mass, have better indoor air quality and have far less toxic chemicals off gassing then the traditional homes we have been building for decades.

  Vincent

[urban-ecology-blog]

The 2012 – 2013 RPSS is framed within two broad topics: Innovation and the Planning Community and Development of Sustainable Cities. This years’ series is poised to include a combination of discussion panels on local topics and workshops, as well as featuring a diverse group of guest speakers.

Cities Building: A New Convergence

Presenter:  Ken Greenberg

Date: 23 October 2012 (7 p.m)

Regional Resilience, Cross - sectoral Knowledge Platforms and the Prospects for Growth in Canadian City Regions

Presenter: David Wolfe

Date: 28 November 2012 (7 p.m)

Place-Making and the Politics of Planning

Presenter: Jennifer Keesamaat

Date: 22 January 2013  (7 pm)

[nautilog]

Seaweed soap project

Seaweed soap can be made from a combination of seaweed, sea water and glycerol. Obviously, the water and seaweed should come from an unpolluted source.

I envisage making soap from different marine environments. Each soap sample will come with information about its source/location, and the level of pollution in the water it came from. It will be graded and stamped according to its toxic status/cleanliness.

The public will be offered a chance to sample the soaps in a makeshift onboard or on-the-shore solar shower.

(I just saw that Bellona will shortly be holding a conference about the sustainable utilization of algae as a resource: http://www.alger2012.no/ )