Last week, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the LA Countywide Sustainability Plan. Along with my colleagues Sean Hecht and Nat Logar and other faculty across UCLA, I assisted in the drafting process and witnessed the shaping of the Plan from the ground up.
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Join me and help fund a water project! Our gifts will be used to construct or rehabilitate a water project, like a well or sand dam, in Africa. We’ll see pictures, GPS coordinates, and updates as they come in from the actual water project we fund so we can celebrate the results along with the…
E-commerce giant Alibaba has entered a partnership with Unilever to improve the personal care conglomerate’s digital marketing technology in China. By using Alibaba’s Cloud service, Unilever will have access to AI and cloud-based technologies that are anticipated to improve the company’s omnichannel, online and offline activities. The technology will also allow Unilever to track its customers’ buying patterns and e-commerce behaviour.
The new version is designed to be shorter, simpler and less prescriptive while retaining and improving performance in data security.
The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) has confirmed that 80 farmers successfully applied for the first year of Northern Ireland’s Protein Crop Payment Pilot Scheme. The support measure will continue into 2022. According to CAFRE’s head of dairy, pigs, poultry and crops, Don Morrow, a total of 679.92ha have been accepted for the scheme this year. It provides support at a level of £330/ha, bringing the total payments to farmers up to £224,578. The eligible crop breakdown for 2021 is as follows: spring beans- 593.17ha; spring peas – 47.233ha; winter beans – 23.17ha; spring sweet lupins – 15.7ha.
Every year, we buy 30 billion tonnes of stuff, from pizza boxes to family homes. We throw out or demolish 13 billion tonnes of it as waste—about 2 tonnes per person. A third of what we discard was bought the same year.
Melinda Burn of Solenis discusses how the concept of the circular economy can be applied to chemistries to optimize chemical usage across an entire operation…