Small-scale circular economy initiatives in Kenya will compete for $50,000 grants for a year for projects that aim to reduce the amount of plastic leaking into the marine environment.
Source: allafrica.com
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L’Oréal USA has tapped Marissa Pagnani McGowan as chief sustainability officer for North America. “Marissa brings to her sustainability work a passion for the power of partnerships and collective action,” said Stéphane Rinderknech, president and chief executive officer of L’Oréal USA and executive vice president of North America, in a statement. McGowan, who officially joins the company in November, will report to Rinderknech. “We aim to drive a complete transformation of our business — to be a leader and catalyst of change in the beauty sector and beyond,” added Rinderknech. “I firmly believe that we must act with even more urgency to address the social and environmental needs of the planet while preparing our business to meet the opportunities of our dynamic market.”
Red Oak encourages other businesses and residents to do as much as they can to “green” their properties and offset their impact on the environment.
Red Oak is proud to announce that it is the first real estate brokerage in the Bay Area to be both carbon neutral and green-certified. Based upon our experience, we encourage other Berkeley businesses, as well as residents, to do as much as they can to “green” their properties and offset their impact on the environment. This is how the process went for us.
Clayton Home Building Group, a builder of off-site and site-built homes, is a bellwether of the systems-built industry, and it has its sites on sustainability. Recent news shows the company recognizes the importance of adopting more innovative and sustainable building methods along with providing energy-efficient housing. Ecobee smart thermostats come standard in every Clayton Built® home and are engineered to help enhance energy savings and control comfort.
The company received the 2021 ENERGY STAR Residential New Construction Market Leader Award for 34 of its off-site home building facilities. These facilities were awarded for the construction of energy-efficient manufactured and modular homes. From January 2020 through April 2021, Clayton built more than 20,000 ENERGY STAR certified homes.
Scientists have developed a hardened wood material that, when sharpened, is three times sharper than a stainless steel dinner knife, according to the new study on the work. The research comes from the University of Maryland’s Teng Li and a team that developed a new method to generate extremely hard wood. Among other things, the development may lead to more sustainable building materials. Wood contains between 40- and 50-percent cellulose, with the rest of the material compromised of binders called lignin and hemicellulose. While cellulose has a greater strength-to-density ratio than materials like metal and ceramic, the binder materials make wood overall weaker than man-made counterparts.