A Sustainable Life: Reusable containers aren’t always better for the environment than disposable ones - new research
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- ALEJANDRO GALLEGO SCHMID, ADISA AZAPAGIC, and JOAN MANUEL F MENDOZA
ALEJANDRO GALLEGO SCHMID, ADISA AZAPAGIC, and JOAN MANUEL F MENDOZA - in an article first published on The Conversation, find reusable containers may have to be reused many times to offset negative environmental impacts - improving recycling infrastructure could be the answer...
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- RICHARD K BROUGHTON
Sixty years ago, a decision was made to let a Cambridgeshire field return to a wild state. RICHARD K BROUGHTON, an ecologist and ornithologist at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, looks - in an article first published on The Conversation - at what the experiment has revealed...
A Sustainable Life: Stop removing your solar panels early, please. It's creating a huge waste problem for Australia
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- DEEPIKA MATHUR and IMRAN MUHAMMAD
In an article first published on The Conversation, DEEPIKA MATHUR, of Australia's Charles Darwin University, and IMRAN MUHAMMAD, of Massey University in New Zealand, look at why prematurely removing solar panels and throwing them away is such a problem...
A Sustainable Life: Short-haul flight ban is a good start – now we need to reimagine the modern airport
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- ENRICA PAPA and LUIS DELGADO
In an article first published on The Conversation, UK academics ENRICA PAPA and LUIS DELGADO argue that greater sustainability in travel could be achieved through greater integration of transport types...
A Sustainable Life: Five ways to reduce your household waste – and stop it being shipped to poorer countries
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- SANKAR SIVARAJAH
In an article first published on The Conversation, SANKAR SIVARAJAH, head of the School of Management and professor of Technology Management and Circular Economy at the University of Bradford in the UK, looks at some simple ways people in the UK context and elsewhere can help reduce plastic waste...
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- UMBERTO BACCHI
Georgian-based UMBERTO BACCHI, a correspondent with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, talks about his personal efforts to lesson his carbon footprint using the app Giki Zero...
A Sustainable Life: Home-delivered food has a huge climate cost. So which cuisine is the worst culprit?
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- ROBERT CRAWFORD
Having food delivered to the home has become the new norm for many thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Australian academic ROBERT CRAWFORD - i n an article first published on The Conversation - weighs up the environmental cost of food that's delivered to your door...
A Sustainable Life: Outdoor heaters are very inefficient – here's how to keep warm outdoors more sustainably
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- SHARON GEORGE
As the northern hemisphere heads into winter, SHARON GEORGE, a lecturer in environmental science, looks at the most sustainable way to stay warm outside...
Health Insight: Exercise nutrition - whether you should eat before or after a workout depends on your fitness goals
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- JUSTIN ROBERTS
In an article first published on The Conversation, JUSTIN ROBERTS, associate professor of health and exercise nutrition ay Anglia Ruskin University, looks at when the best time to eat is when exercising...
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- WENDY ROWAN, LAURA LYNCH and STEPHEN MCCARTHY
In an article first published on The Conversation for the UK context, WENDY ROWAN, LAURA LYNCH and STEPHEN MCCARTHY, of University College Cork, outline five simple ways to reduce your household carbon emissions...
