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Since the pandemic, online retail sales have increased significantly. Fast, cheap, and trendy fashion has progressively become more popular too.
One online retailer has caught a lot of consumers' attention: Shein. A simple search on TikTok shows that the hashtag “#shein” has 10.4 billion views. But what attracts consumers to Shein? The prices. Shein sells…
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At Halloween, we want our costumes to be scary, not our chocolate. But underneath the wrappers of many chocolate bars is cocoa coming from pods doused in pesticides. That is bad for us and even worse for the people who grow cocoa.
Large chocolate companies do not want you to know what goes into making cocoa. That is why Green America has been providing consumers with an…
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Farm work is one of the most dangerous jobs in the US, in part due to pesticide exposure, and women’s share of the farming workforce is increasing. According to the USDA, in 2009 women made up 18.6% of farmworkers but in 2018, women accounted for 25.5% of the workforce. Ongoing concerns about farmworkers' exposure to pesticides have been documented in the…
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Pregnancy comes with precautions such as no heavy lifting, light exercise, getting plenty of rest, and avoiding air travel closer to one’s due date. There is another concern to add to the list: pesticides.
According to the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs , being in contact with pesticides is harmful, especially during pregnancy. Pesticides not…
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Green America welcomed the positive steps within the July 27, 2022 climate deal that is part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Calling for $369 billion in climate and clean energy investments, the bill would put the U.S. on the path to reduce carbon emissions by approximately 40% by 2030, bringing us closer to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. …
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A country music festival in Las Vegas; the Pulse night club in Orlando; Sandy Hook Elementary School; a theater in Aurora, Colorado; Virginia Tech…And more recently Buffalo; Uvalde; and Highland Park's Fourth of July parade. The list of lives lost senselessly to gun violence in the United States is a long one. In addition to the prominent cases that make national news, there…
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Banks Can Make a Real Difference on Climate; Will They?
The annual Banking on Climate Chaos report reveals how big banks are fueling the climate crisis through their financing, based on aggregated statistics from banks globally.
Banks are exacerbating the climate emergency by funding the fossil fuel sector including tar sands oil extraction, Arctic oil…
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Calling on Businesses to Stand up for Democracy
On the surface the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on guns, abortion rights, climate, religion, and Indigenous rights might not appear to have much in common. But they actually share an important trait: they will all cause the most harm to people who are already most disadvantaged or marginalized in our country: Black and…
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From the most recent issue of our magazine, Green American, where we update readers on the progress we've made over the last quarter on climate, finance, food, labor, social justice, and more.
Renewable Energy Must Advance Equity
This spring, Green America issued a major new report on energy justice: “Calling for a Clean, Just Transition” highlights how companies in the…
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