Last December, the Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), a nonprofit that represents about 60,000 Australian woolgrowers, released the Wool 2030 Strategy, a 10-year plan for the country’s wool sector. Taglined “Australian wool: The world’s premium sustainable fibre” the report attempts to appease rising consumer concerns around sustainable methods of fiber production.
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The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the closest ever images of the sun, revealing miniature solar flares on its surface dubbed “campfires”
The makeup brand Tiila Abbitt founded in 2018 is educating consumers and setting a new standard for makeup packaging.Āether Beauty’s latest launch is “literally the only liquid lip component in all of Sephora that can be recycled.”…
Pharmactive Bioactive has unveiled its long-term sustainability program emphasizing fair-trade, boosting local women’s workforces, reducing energy consumption and waste through upcycling, and promoting crops that support biodiversity, and has certified its Environmental Management System according to ISO 14001:2015, according to a press release. “Spain is scattered with rural areas dubbed ‘empty Spain’ due to populations abandoning these towns to seek better employment opportunities within the larger metropolises,” explains Julia Diaz, Head of Marketing for Pharmactive. “Castille is considered an important ancient agrarian cultural heritage site of Spain, yet it has been suffering from this ghost town syndrome. As a result, the government is pushing incentives to attract people to the region, and we have deployed our initiatives to try and help our government reverse the trend.”
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Listen to Maria Outters, Group SVP, Corporate Social Responsibility at Sodexo, talk about global trends in food waste and the steps corporate leaders are taking to reduce food waste in business settings.
A new study commissioned by the EEA shows a clear hierarchy of passenger and freight transport modes, in terms of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Rail and waterborne transport have the lowest emissions per kilometre and unit transported, while aviation and road transport emit significantly more. Alongside shifting to rail and waterborne transport, improving the GHG efficiency of all motorised forms of transport remains an important objective. Moreover, monitoring their GHG efficiency on a regular basis would support these efforts. While active modes, such as walking and cycling, are outside the scope of the study, they are an obvious choice for clean and sustainable mobility because their emissions can be assumed to be close to zero.
Following the recent announcement of Bib Gourmand honorees, Michelin today announced the winners of MICHELIN Star, as well as 3 newly introduced accolades: MICHELIN Green Star, MICHELIN Guide Young Chef Award, and MICHELIN Guide Service Award, in the official launch event of the fourth edition of The MICHELIN Guide in Thailand, entitled The MICHELIN Guide Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket & Phang-Nga 2021. Featured in this latest edition are 299 dining establishments – with a total of 6 two-star, 22 one-star, 106 Bib Gourmand, and 165 MICHELIN Plate eateries.