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HealthWhat Is a Circular Economy?
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The circular economy is a transformative system where materials are continuously repurposed, ensuring nothing becomes waste and nature is regenerated.
This approach involves processes like maintenance, reuse, refurbishment, remanufacture, recycling, and composting to keep products in circulation. By decoupling economic activity from finite resource consumption, the circular economy addresses climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. Rooted in the principles of eliminating waste and pollution, circulating materials at their highest value, and regenerating nature, this resilient system benefits businesses, people, and the environment.
PollutionMaterials Economy Webinar
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A path towards planetary health is more urgently needed now than ever, but our current materials economy creates rampant pollution, climate change, and growing inequity. Shifting from harmful practices to healthful solutions will require cross-sector partnerships, holistic thinking, and exciting new approaches that reduce the burden of industry on people and our planet.
Watch Habitable’s special Earth Month webinar featuring leading global voices, including:
- Dr. Bethanie Carney-Almroth
- Dr. Veena Singla
- Martha Lewis
Moderated by Gina Ciganik, CEO of Habitable
Climate ChangeResource Efficiency Collective
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The Resource Efficiency Collective at Cambridge University explores how to deliver future energy and material services while reducing resource use and environmental impact, aiming to find suitable metrics and solutions for a more resource-efficient society.
HealthPlastic Health Map
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The Plastic Health Map collates research on the potential human health effects of plastic chemicals, aiding the transition to a more sustainable and safer plastic-free world by providing data from over 3,500 primary studies from 1960 to 2022 via a user-friendly dashboard.
PollutionChemical Incident Tracker
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The Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters offers an up-to-date map and incident database tracking hazardous chemical incidents since January 2021.
EquityEquitable and Just National Climate Platform
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The Equitable and Just National Climate Platform is a collaborative effort between environmental justice and national environmental groups to develop inclusive and equitable national climate policy ideas and advocate for shared policy goals.
EquityEnvironmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Justice Reform
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The Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform is a national network of grassroots organizations advocating for safer chemicals and a pollution-free economy, focusing on communities disproportionately impacted by toxic chemicals and pollution.
HealthPlanetary Boundaries
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This website explores the concept of planetary boundaries, a framework of nine key Earth system processes that humanity must stay within to ensure long-term sustainability and avoid irreversible environmental harm.
HealthRetailer Report Card
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The Retailer Report Card evaluates the safer chemicals programs of major U.S. and Canadian retailers, highlighting their efforts to eliminate toxic chemicals from products and packaging, and empowering consumers to support companies driving positive change.
EquityWomen’s Voices for the Earth
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Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) advocates for a future free from the impacts of toxic chemicals with a focus on gender justice and intersectional solidarity, using expertise in research, advocacy, and organizing.
