Solve launches 2019 global challenges
MIT Solve seeks applications to address its newest set of global challenges: Circular Economy, Community-Driven Innovation, Early Childhood Development, and Healthy Cities….
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MIT Solve seeks applications to address its newest set of global challenges: Circular Economy, Community-Driven Innovation, Early Childhood Development, and Healthy Cities….
Source: news.mit.edu
The Solana Beach City Council voted unanimously to ban the sale of single-use plastics within city limits.
With a fleet of more than 3,000 lift trucks, a large retailer with hundreds of locations throughout the United States had difficulty monitoring and managing its equipment maintenance activity and downtime. The retailer used a guaranteed maintenance plan through a secondary provider and had little insight into key metrics like repair history, intervals between failures, preventative maintenance (PM) completions and first-time fixes. Without the ability to monitor these metrics, the retailer lacked clarity regarding the impact of maintenance on its bottom line, along with the value of the secondary provider’s guaranteed maintenance plan, which it was charged for monthly.
Environment Minister Sussan Ley says Australia has been “blindsided” by a draft recommendation to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, suggesting the decision was politically motivated. The World Heritage Committee, which sits under UNESCO, has proposed moving the reef to the list because of the impact of climate change, and will consider the decision at a meeting in China, which is the chair, next month. Ms Ley described the decision as a “backflip” and said United Nations officials had assured the government the reef would not face this kind of recommendation before the July meeting. “We were blindsided by a sudden late decision,” she said.
Sustainability In Our Communities…
As it looks towards its future, the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) said it will launch new projects to address challenges in climate, food and nutrition security in hopes to put the farmed salmon industry as one of the global leaders of sustainable proteins.
Toronto-based Ecobee has launched eco+, which is a new suite of free sustainability and money saving features that have started rolling out on November 5th.