One of the most expensive Wall Street shareholder battles on record could signal a big shift in how hedge funds and other investors view sustainability.
If all of life is a web, then to be an informed consumer is to see, everywhere, evidence of rips in that that web: burning forests, depleted ecosystems, and people in the streets protesting how they’ve been left behind by our capitalistic model. To understand how we got here, you’d have to review capitalism’s existing relationship between ecology and economy the latter designed along a linear model of “take- make-waste,” as experts have put it.
A newer, waste-eliminating remedy is gaining momentum in the form of a circular economic model, one that reintegrates all those seemingly nonrenewable byproducts back into the production loop, creating new technologies, businesses, and essentially, purpose out of the extracted resources that gum up our works in the form of emissions and plastic sea sculptures. Importantly, a circular model demands that auxiliary industries educational, social, and especially financial take their environmental legacy into account.
A big test of reusable packaging for groceries comes to Canada Emily Chung, Alice Hopton, Tashauna Reid
An online store has launched in Ontario selling groceries and household items from Loblaws in containers it will take back and refill a test of whether Canadian consumers are ready to change their habits. Industry-watchers say it is breaking ground for reusable packaging.
The store, called Loop, launched in Canada on Feb. 1, in partnership with supermarket giant Loblaws, and offers items like milk, oats, ice cream and toothpaste for delivery in most of Ontario. Loop is already operating in the continental U.S., the U.K and France.