The environment is the source of all our resources, so the dangers if faces are everyone’s responsibility. Society is moving more and more towards more sustainable lifestyles, more respectful of our planet and less polluting for the place where we live. This phenomenon could not be different in the labor market. Indeed, as the trend towards a greener world grows, new environment-related jobs are beginning to emerge, aimed at those who are willing to put in the work and change the course of our planet.

Do you want to know more about those jobs? Keep reading below as in today’s article, we highlight some of these professions, to which you can eventually apply for if you are truly committed to the environment. Enjoy the discovery!

1.Environmental Quality Technician

This position will require you lead, coordinate and control a company’s environmental management and set your quality standards to take care of the planet wherever you work. As an environmental quality technician, you will be able to change things from the inside out, as you’ll be able to alter the way, processes and systems of a business to start creating the change you want to see.

2.Posts in Renewable Energy Companies

If you want to work in the environmental field, but are more focused on the energy business, we recommend you look into the renewable resources sector. A wind, geothermal, or solar power plant may be a great alternative for you if you are looking for a position in this field. You’ll be able to focus on what you’re most passionate about, without giving up another great commitment: valuing, caring for and working for the environment.

3.Environmental Lawyer

If you are in the field of law and would be passionate about working in the environmental field, you are a perfect match! Find opportunities where you can apply all your legal knowledge to save the planet, its species and ecosystems. With your words and your knowledge of the law, you can do much more to take care of the Earth than you can imagine.

4.Biotechnologist

If you are passionate about technology, learn how to use it for the environment! Look for a position in the biotechnology field and find out how you can design, manipulate, and engineer new ideas or products that contribute to the proper use and conservation of renewable resources. So do you think you are ready to design the future of the environment?

5.Environmental Education Teacher

If caring for the environment is truly your calling, what better way to contribute than by sharing it with other minds? Consider an environmental teaching position and give the planet the best you have to give: all your knowledge. By sharing it with others, you will see how you inspire them to commit to a better planet.

6.NGO Salesperson

If you’re a natural salesperson and you’re good at convincing others with your arguments, perhaps the best way to help the environment is to give your voice. By working in an NGO that fights to protect the environment, you can contribute your two cents by facilitating resources, partners or even contacts that help the planet stay the way we want it to.

Whatever your career, if what you are truly passionate about is the environment, there will always be ways to get closer to it. Bringing an environmental approach to your career path is easy and the first step to doing so is just your love for the environment, we don’t take care of the rest.

What are your thoughts on those jobs? Do you find one more appealing than others? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below – we cannot wait to read from you.

With the scorching temperatures we’re experiencing these days, raise your hand if you feel like getting into the kitchen. Then again, with electricity and gas costs reaching increasingly prohibitive heights due to current geopolitical tensions, getting near stoves or appliances becomes anything but inviting.

But can we create tasty, healthy, nutrient-rich dishes without turning on anything that generates heat? It’s a gamble we’ve taken ourselves and we’re showing you that it can be done – you just have to choose the right recipes and follow the seasonality of the ingredients. So let’s stop chatting and start (not) cooking to be more sustainable in our kitchen.

Breakfast

To start the day with the right determination and with a balanced intake of nutrients, we start with a good no-cook overnight porridge enriched with fresh (we chose strawberries, but all good) and dried fruits, oilseeds and organic peanut butter.

This recipe, vegan and lactose-free since the vegetable drink is used, is also suitable for people with gluten intolerance: just replace the classic oatmeal with gluten-free flakes and you’re done.

As an alternative to porridge, we can prepare a delicious chia pudding (“chia pudding”), again without cooking: chia seeds are rich in beneficial properties and are also very satiating – so ideal for a nutritious breakfast. This recipe is also vegan and gluten-free and can be enriched with fresh fruit or cocoa powder.

Snack

Let’s cut our appetite mid-morning with a colorful and fragrant smoothie made with fresh fruit: strawberries, melon, peaches… the summer season offers us an infinite number of flavors to satisfy the most demanding palates. To give body and creaminess to the smoothie, we suggest you mix fresh fruits with a frozen banana: it will give a fantastic creamy texture!

Lunch

For lunch, we suggest a plate of carrot “spaghetti” with pistachio and basil pesto, a raw recipe that can be prepared in a few minutes and that will seduce young and old alike with its color and crunch. Remember that eating raw vegetables allows you to fill up on vitamins and “volatile” nutrients that would be lost with cooking.

If you are not a carrot lover or if you want to reproduce the idea with other vegetables, you can try making your zucchini noodles.

To the raw starter, we can combine a salad of seasonal vegetables (strictly raw), enriched with a handful of legumes (we can use canned beans, lupins or fava beans) and a bit of oilseed to give crunch and fill up with precious omega-3 fatty acids.

Snacking

It’s time for a snack: a wooden skewer is enough to create a healthy and colorful snack, also suitable for children for this delicious shape. We are talking about fruit skewers, to enrich with the fruits we like most and decorate with dried fruit seeds, such as pistachio or hazelnut.

Dinner

Why not end the day with a tasty chickpea hummus spread on slices of fresh bread? Nutritious and filling, this dish of oriental origin guarantees the right amount of vegetable protein thanks to its main ingredient, chickpeas.

Its preparation is very simple: you just need a jar of pre-cooked and well rinsed chickpeas, a little lemon juice, a little tahini sauce (an oriental sauce made of sesame seeds, available in the most popular supermarkets but you can omit it if you don’t have it at home), salt, oil and a clove of garlic.

We then conclude the day with a sweet hug, strictly no-bake: we make a fresh coconut and lime cheesecake with Greek yogurt. If you don’t like the pungent taste of lime, you can choose from many other no-bake dessert recipes.

There you go! Even with different meal choices, you can become more sustainable in your lifestyle. How about you? What are the steps you’ve already taken towards better sustainability? Let us know in the comments below.

In recent years, companies have realized that focusing on sustainability is essential within their practices and for this, a strategy is required. Since climate change and resource scarcity are becoming more noticeable, companies that are prepared for these changes will have an advantage.

Implementing a sustainability strategy is the way in which the company defines the path towards achieving its purpose, taking care that its impact is positive from the three main dimensions: economic, social and environmental. That’s why in today’s article, we intend to make sustainability available to everyone. Over the years, we have seen that many entrepreneurs were interested in incorporating a sustainability strategy in their companies. However, they do not feel knowledgeable enough to start this process.

For this reason, in this article we explain 6 simple steps to implement a sustainability strategy. Interested in learning more? Grab a pen and paper and take notes from our tips below. Enjoy!

Do a Materialism Analysis

It is to make a diagnosis of the issues that are most important to the stakeholders of our company. That is, employees, customers, consumers, suppliers, neighbors and authorities or institutions. A materialism analysis consists of asking these interested parties (stakeholders) which economic, social and environmental aspects are the most important due to their impact, positive or negative. From all these topics the priorities of the materialism analysis will emerge, normally between five and ten topics.

Define Objectives and Strategic Goals

Once the material issues have been prioritized, it is necessary to define specific objectives and goals for each of them. Establishing what actions we should stop doing or correct, what others we need to start doing, and what we should continue doing or reinforce. Each of these objectives and goals must be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and have a set time frame.

Define Key Performance Indicators

In order to measure the objectives, it is necessary to set the sustainability indicators, which will help us to determine the progress in each material issue. Once defined, we must set their initial value, or starting point. As well as its target value for a defined period of time, normally one year.

Implement a Plan for the Execution of Said Objectives

The implementation of the plan requires:

• communicate the program to everyone involved,

• define individual and collective responsibilities in each goal,

• allocate the necessary resources for its execution,

• and incorporate the fulfillment of these goals in the employee performance evaluation program. So that they feel truly involved and part of the strategy.

Report and Periodically Monitor the Progress of the Programs

This is necessary to disseminate internally and externally the company’s efforts and results in terms of sustainability. For this, a sustainability report  and a control panel (or Balance Score card) must be defined that allow monitoring and seeing the progress of each indicator. There is a wide variety of sustainability reports and certifications on the market. The company must decide which one is best for it to adopt according to its commercial or public image needs.

Choose a Sustainability Management Tool

It is recommended that the company adopt a sustainability management software. In this way, you will be able to maintain, in an organized manner over time, the record of sustainability indicators.

Browse to Get Ideas

Online, you can find great sustainability strategies from established brands. For instance some well-known companies with sustainable business practice are:

• Accenture
• Apple
• Estée Lauder
• Google
• Ikea
• Intel
• Patagonia
• Unilever
• And more

There you are! With those tips you can now develop your own sustainability strategy to help your company thrive. What are your thoughts on sustainable business practices? Let us know in the comments below.