What is “decent work” like?
What are the benefits of a human having a job?
How is job availability changing?
What are the effects when a person is unable to work? For themselves? For their families? For their communities?
How is work connected to healthy economies, communities, and countries?
Currently, humans produce WAY too much waste. We make products, consume them and then chuck them away, littering our planet in the process. But what if there was a different way to do things?
A circular economy is based on the principles of ensuring that production and consumption systems contribute to sustainable development, including minimizing waste and pollution, reusing and recycling products and materials, regenerating natural systems, and other issues related to a sustainable lifestyle.
“Ever since a study by the University of Oxford predicted that 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by robots and artificial intelligence over the next fifteen to twenty years,
How Yvon Chouinard turned his eco-conscious,
anti-corporate ideals into the credo of a successful
clothing company.
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the global building industry will have poured more than 19,000 bathtubs of concrete.
Plastic is everywhere, and suddenly we have decided that is a very bad thing. Until recently, plastic enjoyed a sort of anonymity in ubiquity: we were so thoroughly surrounded that we hardly noticed it.
"Imagine the world as a street ordered by income. Everyone lives somewhere on the street. The poorest lives to the left and the richest to the right. Everybody else live somewhere in between. Welcome to visit all homes on Dollar Street!" (From the website"
Dimensions of the Doughnut Economics
The goal of the Doughnut is to meet the needs of all within the means of living planet. In other words, to live in the safe and just space for humanity
G20 Financial Inclusion Indicators
Economic data on 139 countries.
Provides data from the 34 OECD member countries.
Database of International Labour Standards
Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation
Employment protection legislation database
Global database on occupational safety and health legislation
Regional and country employment/labour dashboards
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