Consumer products brand OXO has this week forged a new partnership with 1% For the Planet, which will see the company donate 1% of annual sales to non-profits that are focused on addressing key environmental issues, including creating more sustainable food practices.
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Berkeley City Council approved a $53 million investment in building housing around the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations to ameliorate the city’s long-standing affordable housing crisis. “Berkeley is really leading in this and is going to be a model for the rest of the region,” Saltzman said. “We need the rest to invest this much money in affordable housing.”
Sustainability at home can be inspired by sustainability at events. Find out how switching to reusables for school lunches has an impact.
Plastic has got to be both a blessing and curse for this planet. However, lately, with the amount of plastic that’s getting accumulated and dumped, it has been causing some serious damage to the environment. However, it looks like researchers have developed the perfect thing to combat this problem. They’ve developed a cocktail of plastic-eating enzymes which can actually degrade plastic in a matter of days — something that normally takes hundreds of years to degrade. The enzyme cocktail includes PETase and MHETase. These are produced by a type of bacteria that feeds on PET plastic (often found in plastic bottles) dubbed Ideonella Sakaiensis.
Smart thermostats can make a big impact when it comes to global sustainability goals. Here is how smart thermostats can be so beneficial.
Croft Architecture have successfully gained planning approval for a barn conversion providing a family with the space they need to grow, whilst carefully considering the barn’s original historic character and impact on the environment.
As a day of climate strikes unfolds across the world, we ask how far pharma is engaged on the issue, as well as noting recent innovations that suggest companies are looking at what can be done.