Can Oyster Shells Capture Rare Earth Minerals from Wastewater? - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer New research suggests oyster shells can capture rare earth minerals from polluted water. The idea is promising.

1g of oyster shells captured up to 1.5g of rare earth minerals #RareEarths, #CriticalMinerals, #SupplyChains, #China

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Dirty Air Drives School Absenteeism - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Pollution and asthma in children is not just a health story. Outdoor air pollution, indoor combustion, and poor housing conditions are driving school absenteeism and destabilizing family life across t...

Asthma is a leading cause of school absenteeism #ChildhoodAsthma #AirPollution #SchoolAbsenteeism #PublicHealth

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The Chemical Smell in Cheap Cabinets and Bookcases - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer That “new furniture smell” is not a luxury note. It is a materials story. Cheap cabinets and bookcases are not just wood. They are wood, glue, and paperwork. Here is what TSCA Title VI actually tells ...

Is formaldehyde wafting through your home? #Environment #Sustainability #HomeGoods

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What the Clean Sidewall Hides - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer A tire looks like order, safety, and ordinary commerce. Its birth can look more like forest loss, land concessions, and very polished excuses.

The tire industry pays no attention to where the rubber comes from #deforestation #rubber #EUDR #sustainability

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Meet the Green Companies Making Serious Green - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer CarbonCure and Project44 stand out because they solve hard industrial problems without demanding a revolution, showing the scale, workflow fit, and revenue quality real businesses need.

Meet the green companies making serious green #CarbonCure, #Project44, #ClimateBusiness, #SupplyChain

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Why Public Institutions Should Buy from Small Farmers More Often - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Schools, hospitals, and public agencies already shape food markets. Here is why they should buy more often from small farmers, and how smarter procurement can strengthen local economies, nutrition, an...

The lowest bid is often the most expensive habit. #FairTrade #SmallFarmers #SchoolMeals #FoodPolicy

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Governments Buy the Future of Forests - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Green public procurement sounds dull until you see what it does. Governments buy at scale, set paper standards, and can reshape forest markets through routine purchasing rules.

Governments Don’t Just Buy Paper. They Buy the Future of Forests #Environment #ForestPolicy #ResponsibleSourcing #ClimateChange

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Paulo Paulino Guajajara: Guardian of the Forest - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Paulo Paulino Guajajara’s killing reveals what happens when governments declare forests protected but leave Indigenous defenders to enforce the law alone.

Paulo Paulino Guajajara - Death Inside a Protected Sanctuary #AmazonRainforest #IndigenousRights #IllegalLogging #RuleOfLaw

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Paper Economies: When Sustainability Exists Mostly on Paper - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer How paper economies let certificates outrun proof in forest supply chains, and why better verification is starting to matter.

Paper Economies: How Forest Claims Outrun Proof #PaperEconomies, #Traceability, #EthicalSourcing, #ForestProducts

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Well-Managed Forests Begin at the Border: Why Forest Biosecurity is Part of Sustainability - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Healthy forests do more than stay standing. They protect water, wildlife, recreation, and wood supply. Forest biosecurity shows why sustainability starts with stronger trade pathways and smarter borde...

Businesses lose $2.4B in annual forest-products losses from invasive insect pests #business #SustainableForestry #InvasiveSpecies #FoGoPAC

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HR 755 is Moving; Accountability Should Move With It - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer H.R. 755 is moving in Congress as a supply-chain bill, but its real test is whether Washington will expand mining benefits faster than it expands tribal, land, and accountability safeguards.

Indigenous tribes are losing out to federal economic concerns - again. #HR755, #CriticalMinerals, #OakFlat, #SupplyChainAccountability

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Indonesia’s Toxic Haze Was a Mass-Casualty Event, Not Seasonal Weather - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Indonesia’s 2015 haze may have caused more than 100,000 premature deaths. Drained peatlands, weak enforcement, and palm and pulp supply chains still leave Southeast Asia exposed.

Indonesia toxic haze deaths #IndonesiaHaze #PeatlandFires #PalmOil #ForestCrime

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Quinto Inuma Alvarado and the Case for Indigenous Protection in Peru - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Quinto Inuma Alvarado warned authorities before he was killed. His case shows why Indigenous protection is essential to forest defense, justice, and lawful markets in Peru.

Quinto Inuma Alvarado: An Environmental Martyr #QuintoInumaAlvarado, #IndigenousRights, #AmazonDefenders, #IllegalLogging

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The Akit, Padang Island, and the Hidden Ethics of Everyday Paper - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Contested Indigenous land rights on Indonesia’s Padang Island expose the moral cost behind paper, tissue, and packaging supply chains.

The Dispossession of the Akit People #PadangIsland #IndigenousRights #EthicalSupplyChains #FoGoPAC

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When Forests Burn, Cities Drink the Consequences - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Poorly managed forests turn wildfire into a drinking water crisis. Why thinning, prescribed fire, and watershed restoration matter for cities.

Over two-thirds of the world’s drinking water comes from forested watersheds #ForestManagement, #Wildfire, #WaterSecurity, #Watersheds

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Norway’s Transparency Act Shows What Real Supply Chain Accountability Looks Like - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Norway’s Transparency Act turns human rights due diligence into a legal duty, offering a practical model for cleaner supply chains, labor protections, and public accountability.

Norway's Transparency Act is a Sustainability Model #NorwayTransparencyAct #SupplyChainTransparency #HumanRightsDueDiligence #ResponsibleSourcing

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The Peatlands Carbon Bomb - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Peatlands store vast carbon reserves, yet drainage for agriculture and resource extraction is turning them into massive emitters from Indonesia to the Congo Basin.

The Climate Story Hiding Beneath the Soil #Peatlands #PalmOil #Deforestation #ClimatePolicy

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Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and the Hard Politics of Sustainability - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Jeff Merkley’s record on forced labor, biodiversity, tribal funding, and public lands shows what sustainability looks like when law and enforcement matter.

Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has used his position to defend staffing, tribal responsibilities, and basic stewardship capacity across public lands agencies. #JeffMerkley #UyghurForcedLaborPreventionAct #TribalSovereignty #PublicLands

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Child Labor is a Moral Test of Sustainability - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer From cocoa and coffee to palm oil in household goods, child labor remains embedded in global supply chains. Ethical consumers should press for traceability, living incomes, and real enforcement.

An ethical market cannot be built on a child’s stolen childhood #ChildLabor, #EthicalSourcing, #SupplyChains, #FoGoPAC

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JBS: Kings of Cattle Laundering - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer How the world’s biggest meat company can keep clean paperwork while forests fall, and how weak U.S. import enforcement lets the profit land in burgers, leather, and portfolios.

If you want a case study in how a large corporation can enrich shareholders while doing little public good, start with JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker. #JBS #Deforestation #SupplyChains #ImportEnforcement

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Borneo’s Rainforests vs. Palm Oil: The Paper Trail That Decides Whether “Deforestation-Free” Is Real - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Borneo lost millions of hectares of forest to palm oil, but recent clearing has slowed. Here’s what changed, what still breaks forests and communities, and why traceability plus enforcement is the onl...

More than 100,000 Bornean orangutans were lost between 1999 and 2015. #Borneo #PalmOil #DeforestationFree #SupplyChainTransparency

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A Loophole Machine for Dirty Fuel, Dirtier Supply Chains, and Hotter Forests - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer The EPA’s February 2026 rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding and rollback of vehicle Greenhouse Gas standards is not regulatory relief. It is regulatory fragmentation, a loophole factory that r...

The EPA formally stopped acknowledging the danger of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles in February.
#CleanAirAct #SupplyChainTransparency #WildfireRisk #ClimatePolicy

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Iran, Hezbollah, and the Clean Supply Chain Window the World Rarely Gets - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer If Iran’s proxy system weakens, the world can lock in cleaner supply chains by upgrading enforcement, traceability, and anti money laundering efforts.

Geopolitical realignment = opportunity #CleanSupplyChains #SupplyChainTraceability #Iran #DeforestationFreeTrade

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Brian Schatz (D-HI): Real Senate Leadership on Illegal Deforestation - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer A profile of Sen. Brian Schatz and the FOREST Act, a trade enforcement blueprint to block imports tied to illegal deforestation.

Schatz (D-HI) and the effort to deny US markets to production tied to clearing, corruption, and weak enforcement. #ForestAct #IllegalDeforestation #SupplyChains #TradePolicy

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Brian Schatz (D-HI): Real Senate Leadership on Illegal Deforestation - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer A profile of Sen. Brian Schatz and the FOREST Act, a trade enforcement blueprint to block imports tied to illegal deforestation.

Schatz (D-HI) and the effort to deny U.S. market rewards to production tied to illegal clearing, corruption, and weak enforcement

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The Quiet Methane Rollback: How H.J. Res. 35 Puts Forests, Air, and Clean Markets at Risk - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer In 2025, Congress used the Congressional Review Act to void EPA’s methane polluter fee rule. Here’s what it changes, why methane matters for forests and wildfire, and a market-friendly fix.

Methane matters for forests and wildfires
#CleanSupplyChains #Methane #WildfireRisk #EthicalSourcing

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The Biggest Trees Hold the Most Carbon. That’s Why Luxury Hardwood Is a Climate Problem. - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer A new 2026 study shows big Amazon trees hold up to 93% of forest carbon. A separate investigation traces tropical hardwood into global supply chains. The damage is hiding in plain sight.

We have built a prestige market for the forest’s most climate-critical biomass #Deforestation #SupplyChainTransparency #ForestCarbon #IndigenousRights

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Six Deaths at a Colorado Dairy Exposed a Corporate Responsibility Gap We Can Close - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Six workers died in a confined space at a Colorado dairy in August 2025. The tragedy reveals a preventable safety failure, a regulatory gap in agriculture, and a supply chain responsibility that falls...

Immigration status and power imbalance make agricultural workers especially exploitable
#WorkplaceSafety #FarmworkerRights #SupplyChainAccountability #EthicalSourcing

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A Bag of Raisins Shouldn’t Come With a Body Count - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Seven farmworkers died commuting to a vineyard job. The loopholes, illegal transport, and retail supply chain incentives that keep it happening, and how to fix it.

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#SupplyChains #FarmworkerJustice #EthicalSourcing #LaborRights

The Amazon’s Hidden Exports: Urban Poverty, Broken Markets, and Pandemic Risk - FoGo - Curated for the Intentional Consumer Amazon deforestation is not just a forest story. It reshapes Brazil’s economy, strains cities, harms Indigenous communities, and raises global disease risk.

The Amazon’s Hidden Exports: Urban Poverty, Broken Markets, and Pandemic Risk
#Amazon #Deforestation #SupplyChains #PublicHealth

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