green practices
Environmentally conscious habits
Green practices are methods or behaviors intended to reduce environmental harm.
The term covers a wide range: recycling, energy conservation, sustainable sourcing, reduced packaging, carbon offsetting.
Businesses adopt green practices for regulatory compliance, cost savings, or public relations: The company touted its green practices in the annual report.
Critics sometimes dismiss such claims as greenwashing when actions don't match rhetoric.
- bioenergyPower from organic sources
- industrial symbiosisBusinesses exchanging waste as resources
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- compostingDecomposing organic matter deliberately
- rain barrelOutdoor runoff storage vessel
air purification · energy-efficient appliances · plant-based diets · geothermal energy · reduce reuse recycle · hydropower · renewable materials · sustainable agriculture · organic farming · farmers market · carbon footprint · carbon neutral · forest stewardship · tree planting · eco-friendly · land restoration · eco-labeling · recycling
- water pollutionsewage, industrial waste, contaminants, algal bloom, toxic waste
- waste managementwaste, trash, garbage, rubbish, refuse
- value-drivencore values, ethics, integrity, principles, purpose
- Jewish ecologytikkun olam, jubilee year, sabbatical year, Sukkot
green practicesenvironmental degradation
Decline of natural surroundings
industrial pollution · pollution · ecocide · toxic dumping · deforestation
green practicesresource depletion
Exhausting available materials gradually
overconsumption · throwaway culture · planned obsolescence · strip mining · overfishing
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