Month: July 2020

Wondering how to travel sustainably? Great! Explore our essential eco-friendly and sustainable travel tips. Travel well for you, others, and the Earth.

Sustainability is a way of doing business, planning and of executing, especially considering climate change, human rights, ethics, transparency, and liability. Businesses and civil society alike must heed the call to consider all stakeholders vis-à-vis a very connected world and bring about transformative change.

The new single-family residential project embraces indoor/outdoor living and are complete with ultra-violet-light, air purifying systems, and fresh air exchange.

BBC Studios’ Rikesh Desai talks how the business has coped through lockdown and highlights how the industry still needs to think about a sustainable future….

Fifteen young, junior staff recently considered the subject of sustainability at a workshop at the Hard site. Linda Mauksch from the Corporate Strategy, Sustainability & Circular Economy department passed on valuable knowledge on the subject and discussed current and highly contentious issues surrounding the sustainability of plastic with the trainees.

The luxury fashion and cosmetics retailer has said it will reduce its headcount by 450, representing around 14% of its staff…

Minerals Technologies Inc. has published its 12th annual Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report, which provides a comprehensive summary of the Company’s efforts to further integrate sustainability across all facets of its business. This report details MTI’s progress in its first year since implementing environmental reduction targets in six focus areas. It also outlines MTI’s continuous improvement in other key topics, including health and safety, new product development, mining and land reclamation, supply chain management, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, community outreach, and ethics and compliance.

Since data centers are huge energy consumers, this meant Iron Mountain also had a substantial carbon footprint before beginning its sustainability journey several years ago.

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Housing Commission is building a new vision for housing based on Christian values. Here, Prof Tim Gorringe (Professor of Theology at the University of Exeter) explains why sustainability must be at the heart of this.

Advanced Energy and Sustainability will provide an open access outlet for high-quality scientific and engineering research in the field of energy and sustainability. As a reaction to the strong call of many funding agencies pushing for more open access, this journal will be your first choice for publishing research in compliance with funders’ mandates and for keeping up with the latest developments in energy harvesting, conversion, storage, distribution, applications, ecology, climate, water, environment, policy, and the related societal impacts.

CES 2021 will no longer be held in person, with the Consumer Technology Association confirming today that it is switching to an all-digital version of the…

A new ISO guide will help ensure climate change issues are addressed in every new standard.

Can you imagine living an entire month without using any plastic? Around the world, over 250 million people did just that by participating in Plastic Free July.  This challenge started in 2011 by the Plastic Free Foundation in Australia. Since then, the challenge has gained momentum. Now, there are participants in 177 countries.

Helsinki introduced a new participation and interaction model nearly two years ago. The model was designed together with our citizens. The principles of participation included in the Helsinki- model have been established in the administrative regulations, which means that they apply to the operations of the entire City organisation. Helsinki’s participation model is based on the knowledge and know-how of the citizens. Helsinki invites city residents and its partners to join the development of the city, its services and areas.

In a consortium representing the horticultural sector, PRé helped develop the Hortifootprint category rules, an environmental footprinting methodology….

Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow appointed to lead research exploring strategies to reduce outdoor air pollution in Uganda and promote healthy communities through evidence-based policies and citizen science.

For Circle K, the use of sustainable packaging without reducing food quality is a priority. It’s a requirement that paper-based packaging must be made from certified material.