To be affordable, houses must be designed and built embracing strong principles of sustainability.Ensuring houses are energy-efficient may increase up-front construction costs a bit, including the costs of superior tools and equipment…
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Most electricity is still produced through the burning of fossil fuels and is responsible for 49% of the carbon emitted into the atmosphere. All software, from the applications running on your smartphone to the training of machine learning models running in data centers, consumes electricity in its execution. One of the best ways we can reduce electricity consumption and the subsequent emissions of carbon pollution made by our software is to make our applications more energy efficient.
The main UK political parties have all now published their manifestos and the Sustain team has analysed them against our own political asks for the food system, which you can read in our Manifesto for a Better Food Britain.
What are the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certifications all about? Is a planned, managed forest area really sustainable? Can the status quo be changed? On this podcast episode Amar Deshpande (aka Amar Vyas), Country Manager for FSC in India joins Girish Shivakumar to discuss sustainable forestry and FSC’s role in it.
Colloquium: “Healthy eating and Sustainable Food Production and Consumption” Speaker: Gara Villalba, ICTA-UAB researcher Date: Thursday, October 29th 2020 Time: 15.30 h Venue: Live streaming here From 28 to 30 October, the UPF is organizing the virtual conference WeDiscover Days Barcelona, within the framework of the project Eutopia.
The Foodservice Packaging Association (FPA) has urged the Welsh Government to hold off its consultation on the banning of single-use plastics.
The world’s largest asset management firm, BlackRock, has launched its first investment fund dedicated to accelerating the global development of a circular economy.