New guidelines for university policies and procedures surrounding sustainability at San Diego State were approved by vote of the University Senate on May 7. The University Senate passed the Sustainability Policy with a vote of 47-8 with 2 abstentions, and the Sustainability Resolution passed with…
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At the International Solid Waste Association’s World Congress in Bilbao, Spain, the organisation’s president, Antonis Mavropoulos, explored how technology can help deliver a wasteless future.
LEDGER, a Venture Builder for Human Centric Solutions funded by the EU, offers up to 200.000€ and a customised venture programme of 12 months to projects solving problems using decentralised technologies such blockchain, peer to peer or distributed ledger technologies.
SAP Innovations4Good spotlights some of the terrific ways SAP partners tackling sustainability by using technology to improve people’s lives. Read more!
Metro Pacific Investments Foundation (MPIF) took its Puhunang Pangkabuhayan Project to its coastal community partner in Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte, donating bicycles, pocket Wi-Fis, sewing and edging machines, and Smart retailer kits for the establishment of alternative livelihood programs amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Kickstarting Alternative Livelihood – Most of MPIF’s coastal community partners depend on tourism as a source of income. Siargao Island in Surigao del Norte was even named one of Time magazine’s 100 unique destinations featured in its “The World’s Greatest Places of 2021”. However, the heightened restrictions and the strictly imposed lockdowns jeopardized this sector, forcing employees to search for other means to provide for their families. To augment this, MPIF sought to empower and give these individuals a source of stability against the looming uncertainty.
Al-Shabaab is normally better known for its deadly attacks than its environmental commitments.
Independent men’s grooming brand King of Shaves has pledged to end the use of single use plastic by 2023. To that end, the brand has launched Code Zero, a lifetime use, refillable metal range and announced a partnership with Surfers Against Sewerage.