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It seems everywhere around my neighborhood and town hunters are getting ready for the opening day of deer gun season in just a week and are completing gear inspection
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s. Deer trucks can be seen at the tire shops and gas stations. Lines are forming at the outdoor supply stores to buy last minute stuff for camp and maybe an extra box of ammo if they can find any. I see trailers with ATVs loaded sitting in driveways getting ready to head out. In fact, my next door neighbor had his ATV loaded up last weekend. I walked over to chat about his prep for hunting to discover he found out the battery on his machine was dead from being in summer storage. Worse yet, he found out the...
Designers' efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their products are being hampered by confusion over terminology and rampant greenwashing, writes Marcus Fairs.
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Greenwashing is back. As concern about climate change, pollution, habitat destruction and species extinction rises, so too are spurious claims about saving the planet. Terms like "sustainable", "biodegradable", "compostable" and "circular" increasingly pepper the press releases arriving in Dezeen's inbox. The claims are mostly nonsense. When our reporters follow up with questions asking for more details, brands tend to go suspiciously quiet. The problem is that terms like these are not well understood, and in some cases have never been precisely defined. They are therefore open to abuse, both accidental and deliberate. As a blanket term, sustainability is "hard to define,"...