-
5 votes
-
Hard cider - making old orchards new again
15 votes -
Climate sustainability through a dynamic duo: Green hydrogen and crypto driving energy transition and decarbonization
5 votes -
Scientific research suggests it might be a good idea to add python to your diet
20 votes -
Why the world cannot afford the rich
43 votes -
Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably
25 votes -
How can mining precious metals ever be sustainable?
10 votes -
EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030 – Study finds ‘systematic progress’ achieved in 2010s with some states reaching targets a decade early
20 votes -
A shift towards a more sustainable global food system could create up to $10 trillion of benefits a year, improve human health, and ease the climate crisis
17 votes -
When Rakel took over the last farm in her Norwegian village, she was not only taking responsibility for a flock of sheep, but also a way of life at a crossroads
2 votes -
Plant-based spread maker tries move into paper-based tubs
13 votes -
Your organic, eco-friendly lifestyle isn't as green as you think
67 votes -
Transparent wood is stronger than plastic and tougher than glass
28 votes -
Hive cities: Reality or fiction?
7 votes -
Imagining a reverse kibbutz
9 votes -
On nonprofit news, funding, operations and success over time
5 votes -
Sweden's Northvolt says new lithium-free sodium-ion battery is cheaper, more sustainable and doesn't rely on scarce raw materials
49 votes -
Climate cookbooks
6 votes -
Why a Dutch designer is knitting jumpers from human hair
8 votes -
Our strange plan to transform this industrial firth: oysters
7 votes -
SolarPunk vs CyberPunk: Our cities' last hope?
14 votes -
Costco clothing is cheap. But is it good value?
23 votes -
Costco capitalism
23 votes -
Lego abandons effort to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles
43 votes -
Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions"
15 votes -
"We are not sustainable" say Framework: a company's initiative to achieve sustainability
37 votes -
We need cheap protein — but it doesn’t have to be meat
16 votes -
The new colonialist food economy - forced use of patented seeds in Africa
27 votes -
Fairphone Keep Club: Sustainable consumerism?
As you may well know, Fairphone is a company that originally arose from a kickstarter campaign and makes phones that are as easily repairable, as sustainable and as fairly sourced as possible....
As you may well know, Fairphone is a company that originally arose from a kickstarter campaign and makes phones that are as easily repairable, as sustainable and as fairly sourced as possible. They do have their issues, but compared to other big phone companies they've done a great job with this.
Now it appears that Fairphone is due to announce the so called 'Fairphone Keep Club' on the 14th of September - a bonus program as we all know it. You buy stuff, you get points for what you buy, and when you've got enough points you can redeem them to buy more stuff.
The keep club website claims that it's the only rewards program that gives back to those who keep their Fairphones as long as possible, but judging by the listed 'challenges' it appears that the most efficient way to gain points is to simply buy new stuff.
Personally I'm a bit torn on this, due to the idealistic viewpoints I tend to judge Fairphone under in accordance with their stated sustainability goals. I do realize that is a much higher standard than the big-players in the phone industry achieve. I also get that Fairphone wants to build its brand identity and create incentives to keep customers and sell their products. But at the same time I can't help but think that in the end that program is an incentive to be less sustainable, as it ultimately provides you with those fancy points as a psychological incentive to buy the newest and latest Fairphone product.
So I wanted to bring this topic into a wider community that may not currently be as deep in the Fairphone bubble: Do you think such bonus programs will rather help spread the idea of a more repairable, sustainable approach to phones, or will it rather serve as an incentive to artificially shorten a phone's lifecycle by prematurely buying a new one? And more generally speking: Do you think advertising strategies rooted in consumerism and classic capitalistic company goals are compatible with sustainable product lifecycles somehow, despite not exactly having aligned interests?
Note that I also posted this on Lemmy. I'm interested to see how those discussions will compare.
22 votes -
A curated list of reviews of the Fairphone 5
8 votes -
California Department of Transportation awards $54 million for Sustainable Transportation Planning grants
7 votes -
Fairphone 5 - Android updates for five years and at least eight years of security updates; possibly upto ten years, keeping the phone active until 2033
57 votes -
Meet the American nomad prepping for doomsday by living in a homemade cart pulled by sheep and drinking their milk | World Wide Waste
20 votes -
Artificial intelligence and internet of things for sustainable farming and smart agriculture
6 votes -
How Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism
45 votes -
Digging into India's drive to acquire critical minerals
5 votes -
Analysis of thirty long-running farm trials shows crop choice and manure addition can sustain high yields at low fertilizer rates
16 votes -
EU passes nature restoration law in knife-edge vote
19 votes -
Eco homes and a Michelin green star – sustainable living on Denmark's Djursland peninsula
6 votes -
How Chicago solves its overheating problem
11 votes -
Architects trying to make Denmark carbon-neutral – Copenhagen hosts 2023 World Congress of Architects, displaying experimental structures that could decarbonise housing
9 votes -
Can EV batteries be recycled? It’s complicated, but it’s already happening
8 votes -
Welcome to the next generation of agricultural drones
9 votes -
Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world's largest wooden neighbourhood in Stockholm
10 votes -
Can we make bicycles sustainable again?
25 votes -
How would I determine which plants fix which nutrients into soil? Any resources?
I'm very on board with the concept of permaculture, and while I understand the concepts I don't have a good intuition for which plants fix which nutrients. For example suppose I grow basil in my...
I'm very on board with the concept of permaculture, and while I understand the concepts I don't have a good intuition for which plants fix which nutrients. For example suppose I grow basil in my herb garden.
How do I figure out which nutrients it will eventually deplete? How do I figure out a good buddy crop(s) to replenish those nutrients?
Any permaculturists out there that can point me in the right direction?
16 votes -
Looking for sustainably designed anti-fast fashion brands
Hey all! Most clothing and fashion brands that you can find in your local shops or online are fast-fashion: cheap to produce in mass quantities, using cheap materials and don’t last very long. For...
Hey all! Most clothing and fashion brands that you can find in your local shops or online are fast-fashion: cheap to produce in mass quantities, using cheap materials and don’t last very long. For example, I currently buy my t-shirts from Banana Republic Factory for around $10-$15 and they last maybe 8-12 months before they shrink in the wash or discolor.
I’m looking for some alternatives! I’m okay paying a little bit more for stuff that’s going to last a long time. Open to any suggestions for a more sustainable, long-lasting wardrobe!
44 votes -
The Huussi toilet in Finland's pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale disposes of waste without any water
7 votes -
Can Burning Man pull out of its climate death spiral?
10 votes -
Norway wants to raise taxes on its aquaculture industry, which could provide a model for how to better manage the marine environment
4 votes