by CELL Staff | Mar 24, 2014 | Staff Column, Sustainability News
by: Julianne Boulton Reducing your food miles and eating locally can help you to reduce your carbon footprint. See here for steps that you can take to reduce your food miles. Like with any generalisation some food products where food miles may not be as important in...
by CELL Staff | Feb 24, 2014 | Staff Column, Sustainability News
by: Julianne Boulton Everyday thousands of men, women and children in developing countries rummage through the dumps of some of the world’s most populated cities. They look for waste items that they can be sold to middlemen who will go on to sell them to factories...
by CELL Staff | Feb 17, 2014 | Staff Column, Sustainability News
by: Julianne Boulton Cutting down trees and harmful fumes released from burning fossil fuels are probably some of the first reasons that come to your mind when you think of the causes of environmental loss. Let’s step back for a moment and take a look at the bigger...
by CELL Staff | Feb 10, 2014 | Staff Column, Sustainability News
by: Julianne Boulton The number of people who live in urban environments has been rapidly increasing for the past few decades. The United Nations recently predicted that by 2030 the global urban population would have reached almost 5 billion. This means that current...
by CELL Staff | Feb 3, 2014 | Staff Column, Sustainability News
by: Julianne Boulton We constantly hear that human actions are affecting our environment and that we need to be sustainable. We wonder why only a few people seem to care to take some action to save the world. The field of psychology may have an answer. In “The...
by CELL Staff | Jan 20, 2014 | Staff Column, Sustainability News
by: Courtney Remacle A New York Times reporter tweeted this photograph of an LED billboard displaying the sunrise in Beijing while the city beneath it was cloaked in smog and pedestrians surely unable to see the real sky. This photograph is a stark and sobering look...
