Sustainability and Nomadism at Alcova

After the successful launch of its high-speed fiber broadband service in Cebu last June, Converge ICT Solutions Inc., introduces its innovative solutions to empower and support small and medium-sized businesses, corporations, and large enterprises, spanning multiple industries. The B2B arm of the country’s leading fiber internet service provider is hosting a Cebu Roadshow — a month-long series of online events to introduce the brand and showcase its line-up of products and services to different business communities and industry associations such as the Philippine Association of Building Administrators, Inc. (PABA-Cebu), Chamber of Real Estate and Builders’ Associations Inc. (CREBA – Cebu Chapter), and Cebu Hotels Information Technology Association (CHITA), to name a few. The Cebu Roadshow will help educate business enterprises with the right tools to empower digital transformation, provide solutions for work efficiencies, and enable business sustainability, especially during this pandemic.

Researchers developing renewable plastics and exploring new processes for plastics upcycling and recycling technologies will now be able to easily baseline their efforts to current manufacturing practices to understand if their efforts will save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Benchmark data calculated and compiled at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) provide a measurement—at the supply chain level—of how much energy is required and the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from the production of a variety of plastics in the United States. “Today, we employ a predominantly linear economy for many of the materials we use, including plastics,” said Gregg Beckham, a senior research fellow at NREL. “Many people and organizations around the world are looking at ways to make our materials economy circular.”

The United Nations called on Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt on Tuesday to recommit to talks on the operation of a giant hydropower dam, urging them to avoid any unilateral action, a day after Ethiopia began filling the dam’s reservoir. The U.N. Security Council will likely discuss the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) this week after Arab states requested the 15-member body address the issue.

Thus, it goes without saying, that soil organic matter not only improves food security due to higher yields, lower crop losses and better storage potential, but also food safety due to higher nutritional density and lower risk from pesticides, heavy metals, human pathogens.