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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Declaring a Climate Emergency
Climate Emergency UK Roundtable - My Deeper Thoughts for 2023 This post on climate emergency was originally published in late 2019 and has been updated in Dec 2023, providing added information and reflection in regard to Covid-19. At the back end of 2019, I was a...
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | Brave New World
Back in my native South Africa, we practice something called Load Shedding. What this means is that the energy the country produces is shared around the country at different times of the day or night to balance the capabilities of the grid, with the demands of the...
Sanitation Can Flatten The Curve, So Why Has Development Stalled?
The title question is an ethical dilemma of the highest order, and I am not a philosopher who can adequately adjudge moral responsibility. Of course, anyone who reads this title will say that the answer is obvious, that development on international sanitation has...
SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation | Brave New World
We are told to rigorously wash our hands multiple times per day, which is fine in countries with a high level of clean water and sanitation, but in many parts of the developing world, it is a hard task. Covid-19 has done more to demonstrate the importance of hand...
Female Entrepreneurs To Come Back Fighting?
The government has been incredibly generous, paying out billions upon billions in furlough support to those who have not been able to do their jobs properly during the coronavirus pandemic. They’ve also given billions more to the self-employed, many of whom were also...
SDG 5: Gender Equality | Brave New World
Whilst the coronavirus doesn’t pick its victims based on gender, it’s women who bear much of the knock-on responsibility. Women are more likely to be furloughed, more likely to be responsible for childcare and homeschooling, and have to continue to maintain the home....
Remote Learning During Covid and the Environmental Benefits
The Open University once conducted a study into the environmental and sustainability effects of e-learning courses, discovering along the way that producing and providing these courses consumes 90% less energy and produces 85% fewer emissions per student than...
SDG 4: Quality Education | Brave New World
Welcome to the fourth part of our Brave New World series, where we explore the impacts of Covid-19 on each of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. SDG4 assesses global education at all ages, and it’s something that has been drastically affected by the coronavirus,...
The Importance of EcoSystem Services, Natural Capital, and Rewilding
Hey! In this article, I’m going to talk about some things that are incredibly important to me, you, and the rest of the planet. It’s vital, in order to create a sustainable future, that we recognise these terms and are able to discuss them: EcoSystem Services Natural...
Cleaning up our Act – Explaining Some Key Terms – 2021 Update
In recent articles, we have mentioned some interesting topics, including the introduction of Clean Air Zones, Low Emission Zones, and the Petrol and Diesel Ban. In this article, we will go beyond simple mentions and try to explore these three topics, giving you an...