🍃The Sustainability Top 10: things are heating up

Welcome back 🖐,

This week, it was hard to miss the story of a world heating up either in the news or going outside in many parts of the planet 🥵. But I also noticed an interesting trend: now it is not only mainstream left leaning news sources that regularly report on sustainability topics (see below  image from The New York Times), but also right-leaning sources, like the Wall Street Journal, which is now regularly reporting on sustainability topics like forever chemicals in tap water (they reported on it, but I am sharing an article about it from an open source for you to have access to it 😊). 

Hopefully this is a positive trend that normalizes the need for sustainability and makes it less politized (at least some aspects of it; the WSJ is still fighting ESG…). Also this week, resources on managing your supply chain, a service to navigate the growing number of sustainability regulations, the amazing discovery of the largest sea grass forest in the world and more+. Here are The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

2. (Sustainable Brands) The metal mines in your drawer: mobile industry Eyes 5 billion ‘dormant’ phones sitting in desk drawers for reuse or recycling. read here

3. (The Hill) When there is a will….Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon drops 34% in first half of 2023 . read here

6. (Bloomberg) Greenwashing battle continues: new guidelines inform companies buying carbon offsets what they can and can’t claim about purchased credits. read here

7. (Reuters) July 3: hottest day ever recorded on Earth. read here

8. (The Hill) 😳 Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in 45% of US tap water. read here

10. (WEF) This speaker uses some controversial language, but one key point is still relevant - we still know so little about the interdependency of planetary nature systems: how 16 tipping points could push our entire planet into crisis. read here

+. (Nat Geo) And a proof-point of how much we still need to learn: world’s largest known seagrass forest found in the Bahamas. read here

Enjoy and reflect 💭. Warm regards / saludos,

Julio