In recent years, manufacturing has been undergoing a quiet revolution. Once known primarily for its high energy consumption and resource-heavy processes, the industry is now being reshaped by a growing demand for sustainability. From consumers to investors, people are asking tougher questions: How are products made? Where do materials come from? What happens to waste?
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To make your business more environmentally friendly, it’s important to focus on realistic and actionable steps you can take that will make a difference. Be practical in your approach to make changes that are realistic and easy to sustain over time. Here are some ideas you can begin implementing right away.
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Do you like Coffee? I sure do. I especially love my K-Cup Coffeemaker for its convenience, ease of clean up, and the seemingly endless variety of flavors and drink types available in those little pods. I love it! But I also love the Earth, and the amount of waste that accumulates in landfills from those same convenient pods is not lost on me. Just because I recycle and compost the pods and their contents doesn’t mean anyone else does.
I’ve used coffee that comes in compostable pods in the past and those are great, but now there’s a new player in the sustainable pod game: Cambio Roasters — the coffee pod company behind the first aluminum K-Cup. Let’s check it out.
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Nature and artifice coalesce in Connor Ives‘ Couture Girl Dress from the designer’s 2020 graduate collection, “The American Dream,” which was inspired by the women with whom he grew up in Bedford, New York. The garment’s bulblike shape parodies the pneumatic silhouettes of mid-20th-century fashion.
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Jay Sae Jung Oh’s Savage Chair is composed of found household objects and discarded everyday items that she has meticulously bound together and laboriously hand-wrapped in leather cord — a process that can take weeks to finish.
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