ES Sustainable Development Goals: 8. Good Jobs & Economic Growth

Examples of business actions, solutions, indicators, tools and targets.

Currently, humans produce WAY too much waste. We make products, consume them and then chuck them away, littering our planet in the process. But what if there was a different way to do things?

A circular economy is based on the principles of ensuring that production and consumption systems contribute to sustainable development, including minimizing waste and pollution, reusing and recycling products and materials, regenerating natural systems, and other issues related to a sustainable lifestyle.

“Ever since a study by the University of Oxford predicted that 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by robots and artificial intelligence over the next fifteen to twenty years,

How Yvon Chouinard turned his eco-conscious,
anti-corporate ideals into the credo of a successful
clothing company.

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the global building industry will have poured more than 19,000 bathtubs of concrete.

Plastic is everywhere, and suddenly we have decided that is a very bad thing. Until recently, plastic enjoyed a sort of anonymity in ubiquity: we were so thoroughly surrounded that we hardly noticed it.

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