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Informed Consumers Make Sustainable Choices, Filipino Muslims Vote on Autonomy, Recycling in Mogadishu

23.01.2019

by Roxana Adam

Photo: U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr (CC0)

Research shows that, when educated with clear information about the food’s global impact, individuals make more environmentally-friendly choices; three million Filipino Muslims voted to end a decades-long conflict and receive control over their land and resources; and with the Somalian government unable to deal with trash collection, some Somalians saw a business opportunity to turn plastic bags, bottles, and wrappers into roof tiles and other recycled goods.