This year, the SEIF Awards celebrated their 10th anniversary and the second edition of the competition focusing on the theme Tech for Impact, which targets European impact entrepreneurs who develop or make innovative use of technologies to tackle social and environmental challenges. The solutions also contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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As with money, protein is not known for growing on trees. But only if you haven’t heard of TerViva — a California-based agribusiness planting tens of thousands of pongamia trees in Florida and Hawaii. According to TerViva, the pongamia tree is a protein powerhouse that far outclasses the globally dominant soybean: its yields, the team says, can offer as much as 10 times the beans per acre as soy.
Around 70 percent of the company’s paper-based packaging is already from recycled sources.
Businesses in Gloucestershire can apply for a share in a fund to explore new ideas and innovations to bring change to the UK’s plastics manufacturing and consumption patterns. The £20 million Plastics Research and Innovation Fund (PRIF) engages Britain’s best scientists and innovators to help…
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS), manager of the ISS National Lab, today announced a sustainability challenge in partnership with leading global prestige beauty brand Estée Lauder. The ISS National Lab Sustainability Challenge: Beyond Plastics aims to utilize the orbiting laboratory to advance sustainability research that addresses the plastics dilemma. The Sustainability Challenge is an open solicitation for U.S. entities to propose flight projects that leverage the space station to tackle plastics waste and enable scientific or technological advancements that improve Earth’s environment. Building on the brand’s long-term sustainability goals, Estée Lauder intends to provide funding to support one or more flight projects awarded through this Sustainability Challenge.
Rapanui introduced Raspberry Pi into their factory to help build a sustainable, environmentally friendly business.Now we’re introducing them into our store…
Environmental sustainability in UK higher education – estates and investment, research and the curriculum, and the net-zero policy agenda…