Author: Gunnar Lovelace

Corporate sustainability must give way to corporate responsibility Gunnar LovelaceContributor Gunnar Lovelace is the founder of Thrive Market. More posts by this contributor: A farm shouldn’t be a factory Today we consume more than twice as much as our relatives did only 50 years ago. In the US, this means generating upwards of 500 billion pounds of garbage every year that’s trucked to one of our 10,000 landfills. This accelerated consumption is exhausting global ecosystems, depleting 30% of global resources and nearly 60% of animal populations since the 1970s. Image courtesy…

A farm shouldn’t be a factory Gunnar LovelaceContributor Gunnar Lovelace is the founder of Thrive Market. Most of today’s food is produced by industrial agriculture and that’s a problem. Industrialized agriculture essentially turns farms into a factories, requiring inputs like synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides, large amounts of irrigation water, and fossil fuels to produce outputs like genetically modified crops (corn, soy, wheat) and livestock (meat, poultry, pork) by mechanized production means. All of this leads to a unsustainable and outdated system that’s heavily dependent on fossil fuels and chemical pesticides,…