内容摘要：“This is all being done under the assumption there is some energy emergency and that is just not true,” said Amber Reimondo, the group’s energy director.

“This is all being done under the assumption there is some energy emergency and that is just not true,” said Amber Reimondo, the group’s energy director.

of Milei’s former dog, Conan, who died in 2017.Milei still refers to Conan in the present tense, leading to intense speculation about the number of dogs he owns. Since assuming office, his dogs have remained out of sight. A government resolution prohibiting officials from disclosing information to the public about Milei’s mastiffs has done little to tamp down on the controversy.

Macetas con plantas y un bol de perro junto a la tumba de Milo en el cementerio para mascotas de Jardines del Almas, ubicado dentro de un refugio de animales a las afueras de Buenos Aires, Argentina, el martes 6 de mayo de 2025. (AP Foto/Natacha Pisarenko)Macetas con plantas y un bol de perro junto a la tumba de Milo en el cementerio para mascotas de Jardines del Almas, ubicado dentro de un refugio de animales a las afueras de Buenos Aires, Argentina, el martes 6 de mayo de 2025. (AP Foto/Natacha Pisarenko)For heartbroken owners without the financial means to

, Argentine morticians prepare burials and cremations.Demand has surged at Gardens of the Soul, a pet cemetery inside an animal shelter near Buenos Aires, where owners hold emotional rituals to bid their companions farewell and regularly visit their graves.

There are some 300 tombstones painted with classic Argentine canine names, like Negro and Coco, and strewn with photographs, handwritten notes and flowers.

“Before, two months could go by without anyone being buried. Now, it’s at least once or twice a week,” said shelter manager Alicia Barreto, who still mourns her first rescue, a pup she found alive in a bag of dog carcasses thrown on the roadside in 2000.Many retailers are getting seats on the slow train. West Elm, for instance, was early among home retailers in joining Fair Trade USA, which ensures that suppliers maintain good workplaces and wages, and support their communities.

The global reforestation project One Tree Planted gets part of every purchase from furniture brand Joybird. Herman Miller’s rePurpose program gets used furniture to nonprofit organizations. And Ikea has initiatives like moving to bio-based glue, and instituting a buy-back/re-sell program that saw 230,000 items given a new life in 2022.For the past five years, the United Nations Refugee Agency’s

has helped artisans partner with fashion and home accessories businesses worldwide to create sustainable, fairly traded goods.New York-based writer Kim Cook covers design and decor topics regularly for The AP. Follow her on Instagram at @kimcookhome.