The lazy person’s guide to sustainability
The UN has just published the mother of all helpful guides – how to save the world when you don’t have time to go ‘full activist’. Here at Thred we’re pretty keen on consistently giving you easy to implement advice on how to reduce your carbon footprint. From
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World leaders pledge €7.4 billion to fight COVID-19
World leaders, companies, and international NGOs pledged €7.4 billion to develop new tools to detect, treat, and prevent the coronavirus during a fundraiser held earlier this week. Here’s something you don’t see every day: world leaders calling in from their homes and offices for a televised videoconferencing summit hosted...
How the surveillance state is piggybacking on COVID-19
Governments are increasingly hollowing out privacy laws to make way for new corona-fighting tech. In the competition between personal freedom and personal safety, safety usually wins. This is the essential logic that authoritarian regimes in history have platformed off of, and it’s been proved many times over. After a wave of...
Young women have found their niche in climate activism
Thanks to a cohort of inspiring females, climate change looks fitting to be the first issue of international importance shaped by the female gaze. The other week I wrote a piece on how climate change disproportionately disadvantages women, and how we are likely to be the...
The vegan leather market is predicted to be worth almost $90bn in the next five years
A plant-based alternative to a material with an immense carbon footprint, vegan leather is the next step in the sustainable fashion movement. 2020’s recurring trend? Sustainability. Major brands around the world are making significant changes to be more environmentally conscious. Consumers are choosing to shop second-hand. And fast fashion? We...
Stop asking the impoverished to fix climate change
It’s time we stop letting corporations place the onus for climate change on society’s least able. The World Economic Forum in Davos last week was more or less a waste of time, as I pointed out here. The event purported to be a meeting of top economic and political minds...
You need to know about the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The list of rules you might not have known the whole world was following. We talk a lot about social change at Thred. We have a whole section for it on our website. We recommend companies who operate within a system of social change, we update you when newsworthy steps towards social change have been taken, and we’ve even published a guideline...
Why women are disproportionately affected by climate change
Increased danger for women in conflict ridden states, and the overrepresentation of women in poverty, are colliding in alarming ways with the effects of climate change. As if women were in the market for any more handicaps in the game of life, new research from the UN shows that we are even more disproportionately affected by climate change than previously thought. A concoction of already extant patriarchal realities along with...
Our guide to Earth Day online
It may be a tall order to celebrate and honour the beauty of the planet from our bedrooms, but it’s Earth Day and we’re going to do it. Today marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a day us Earthlings usually spend showing support for environmental protection initiatives and demonstrating on behalf of Climate Change reform. However, just like our plans for summer 2020, the day’s events have been scuppered by the...
COVID-19 postpones the next big climate conference, but nations stand firm on green targets
From the heads of the European commission to BP, institutions are reasserting their commitment to tackling climate change despite the postponing of COP26 talks in Glasgow. The biggest international climate conference since the Paris Agreement in 2015, when almost every state in the world agreed to Carbon-0 targets, was set to take place in November this year in Glasgow, Scotland. But, after a meeting of UK and UN representatives...
