Stop Now 🛑Ask These Questions ❓

THINK BEFORE YOU BUY💡 written by Alexis McCarthy Where did it come from?🗺️🏭🚜✈️

• Understand the source of the products you buy

• The material, the thread, the dye, the processing

• Where was it assembled

• Who distributes it

• How far did it travel to get to you

Who made it?👩🏿‍🏭👨🏻‍🏭👩🏽‍🏭

• Know who made the product

• How clean is the factory, farm, business

• How are the workers treated

• Are the workers paid fair wages

What do I do with it when I am done with it?♻️🗑️💩

• Is it biodegradable

• Is it recyclable

• Is there any future use for it

• Repair, reuse, reimagine

Learn 👩‍🎓 Innovations, Innovators, Thought Leaders, Changemakers, New Ideas, New Frontiers

AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY☀️ SDG 7

• Virginia: Coal to solar jobs

• Hawaii: No more coal

INDUSTRY INNOVATION & INFRASTRUCTURE🏢 SDG 8, 9 & 11

• Uber emissions reporting

• Salesforce rolls out net zero marketplace

• PepsiCo introduces regenerative farming

• Amtrak rolls to net zero

• HSBC no thermal coal financing

• Electricity companies knew about climate change long ago

• What is a water positive building?

RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION 🛒SDG 12

• EU wastes more food than it imports

• USDA invests in organic transition

• Growing awareness of ESG

EQUITY⚖️SDG 5&10

• Apple Tim Cook: No excuse for lack of women in tech

• Women leadership and ESG

• UN Women partnership say no to Blackrock

• Google Microsoft roe v wade playing both sides

• 600+sites renamed

• MIT and indigenous innovation

• First native woman in space

• Native land and clean energy

CLIMATE ACTION🌎 SDG 13, 14 &15

• Nature Positive

• Ecosystem Accounting

• Natural Capital Impact/Dependency: $21 trillion

• Rewilding

• Argentina

• Rivers

• Cool climate mapping and resilience tool

• 9 Climate tipping points

GOOD😊🕊️

• Helping the rich let go

• Letters of gratitude

INNOVATORS🔮

• Cat Berman and Yuliya Tarasava

• Chrystel Cornelius

• Yasmine Mustafa

• Diana van Maasdijk

• Morgan Simon

• Patience Marime Ball Esq.

• Yvon Chouinard

Act 🙂

September and fall is here. It is a great time to think more about how we move in the world. The goal of leave no trace by be hard to attain. On our path to doing that the least we can do, as Matt Dwyer, VP of Impact & Innovation at Patagonia said recently, is "mind our mess," which means understand where it comes from, measure it and clean it up.

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If I can help you or your organization, get in touch. I would love to connect. Best, Alexis