Imvelo Environmental Blog
Imvelo’s Environmental blog aims to create conversations on environmental awareness and topics around sustainability to help businesses and individuals become conscious for the planet.
Our environmental blog, as the name suggests, covers topics ranging from environmental impact, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and climate action to environmental legislation, circular economy, B corps, conscious fashion and everything to create good for people as well as the planet.
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SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production | Brave New World
The world is changed forever due to Covid-19, we simply can’t avoid it. But, whether that long-term change is good or bad is down to the actions of the many and the policies of the few. In the new world, we can hope to see people shopping locally instead of importing,...
Could cities and communities have been better prepared for the Covid crisis?
It is clear that Covid-19 has possessed major setbacks for the SDGs. The pandemic has reflected the gap in urban research and the need for researchers to take these uncertainties as a guide to chart more sustainable future communities and cities. As I write this, the...
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | Brave New World
I’m concerned for the future. Perhaps it’s this concern that pushed me into my area of studies, beginning with Marine Biology. Years later and I’m an Environmental Consultant, literally working every day with businesses to use my concern as a productive tool for...
Are climate refugees the biggest threat to achieving social equality?
SDG 10 aims for global socio-economic equality determined through prosperity regardless of gender, race, religion or economic status. Considering the giant difference in countries with respect to their position on the Maslow chart, Covid-19 has accelerated the...
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities | Brave New World
I want to start this article by talking about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, in order to set the tone and place a point of reference for what we mean when we talk about reducing inequalities. In the image below, we can see at the bottom of the pyramid all of the things...
Industrial-Sized Terms, Innovative Claims, Infrastructure Pending
In this article, I’m going to be looking at the new terms that are being thrown about, a few ambitions that are cleverly worded, and give my overall opinion on the infrastructure drive that is taking place in the UK. Contents: Are we mislabelling, or is the abundance...
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure | Brave New World
In 2021, 46% of people globally still don’t have access to a computer or the internet in order to access remote education or health services. This figure simply doesn’t align with the global agenda of remote learning and working, and puts the third world at yet...
Green Industrial Revolution: Economy, Employment & Environment
Green Industrial Revolution: Growing economy, employment and the environment Green Industrial Revolution is an ambitious and comprehensive effort to fundamentally transform the way we produce and consume goods and services, and to reduce the negative...
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth | Brave New World
“Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all” Perhaps second only to the public health implications of Covid-19, the economic and employment knock-on effects may be the most publicised. Media...
What is HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning)?
HVAC: Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning. As far as business carbon emissions go, HVAC is one of the guiltiest parties… Or is it? HVAC, once an industry that you could easily point your finger at as a major source of pollution is in fact changing its ways, and...