Can China Balance Consumerism with Sustainability?
China is on track to beat its emissions targets and leapfrog into sustainability through the use of advanced technology.
Source: www.alizila.com
China is on track to beat its emissions targets and leapfrog into sustainability through the use of advanced technology.
Source: www.alizila.com
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The world’s largest hotel chain has announced that it is to stop providing toiletries in single-use plastic bottles, in a bid to reduce waste caused by the packaging.
Tim Coffin, formerly a Military Pilot for Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), is a recent graduate of MCAD’s MA in Sustainable Design Program. Tim lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. What attracted you to MCAD’s MA in Sustainable Design program?
The Avery Dennison Foundation Through the Avery Dennison Foundation, we advance the causes of education, sustainability, and women’s empowerment in communities where Avery Dennison employees live and work. Much of the Foundation’s investment is driven by Avery Dennison employees, who also donate their time and expertise, extending their spirit of invention and innovation to help solve local problems and serve their neighbors in need.
The regional LafargeHolcim Awards (Gold, Silver and Bronze) and Acknowledgement prize winning projects will be announced in a hybrid event on November 13, 2021, as part of the 17th international Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy. The Global LafargeHolcim Awards (Gold, Silver and Bronze) will be announced at the same event by Hashim Sarkis, curator of the Biennale and Head of the Global LafargeHolcim Awards jury 2021. Representatives of the 33 Main Category winning teams are invited to attend this event in person and receive the Awards and Acknowledgement prize trophies.
In mid-April, nearly 150 local environmentalists marched to the gates of Greenidge Generation, a bitcoin mining facility in upstate New York, in a last-ditch effort to block its expansion. Their objection: that the creation of the cryptocurrency, an energy-intensive process in which computers compete to solve mathematical puzzles, may harm efforts to limit global warming. Three days later, the planning board in the small town of Torrey voted 4-1 to allow Greenidge Generation to more than double the number of machines it has mining bitcoin.