UPSTREAM, in partnership with Remark.eco, hosted a one day virtual design sprint in August 2020 using GV Sprint Methodology. Our goal was to develop a scalable, viable model for reusable systems for prepared food and beverage in the COVID era, helping businesses stay open and thriving while also protecting our health and the planet.

We must find ways to move forward as a nation and to learn to see each other as neighbors again – to forge a new social contract that seeks to truly lift all people up and to come together on the issues of our time.

Laura Marston, owner of the reuse and refill store GoGo Refill in Portland, Maine, put together a gift guide for those who want to give more love by giving less waste.

Let’s do our best to find ways to reach out and dive deep, to be courageous listeners and common ground seekers, to leave the finger-pointing behind and jumpstart the friendmaking.

City to Sea, an environmental organisation based in the UK, has been working hard to provide practical solutions to plastic pollution.

Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali and Miriam Torres brought their invaluable perspective, expertise and advice to a livestream discussion on 9/24.

As You Sow uses shareholder advocacy to press publicly-traded companies to improve their social and environmental practices and policies.

A school lunch chef uses tiffins to take the trash out of COVID-adapted lunches.

Misplaced perceptions of cleaning & unnecessary use of disposable dining-ware hinder COVID response.