Cracking new ways to fight plastic waste

UBS bank is tasking its sustainable and impact investment boss a bigger chunk of responsibility for its efforts in the area. The move comes after UBS’ new CEO defined it as a pillar of his strategy.  Zurich-based UBS is naming Michael Baldinger as its first sustainability chief, effective from June, it said in a statement on Wednesday. Baldinger, an ex-CSFB proprietary trader, already holds a very similar role at UBS, but the new set-up appears to grant him a bigger say in the wider bank’s organization.
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On October 21, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn joined Knouse Foods Cooperative officials, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, and a host of partners for the kickoff of a streamside forest buffer planting at the fruit grower owned cooperative operations in Biglerville, Adams County.  The planting is designed to improve the water quality of an unnamed tributary to the Conewago Creek, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay.

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) is tasked with supercomputing, high-end computational science, and advanced networking for science. One of its most important tools in advancing computational science is the annual ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC). The competitive program grants 1-year allotments of high-performance computing (HPC) time to scientists from industry, academia, and national laboratories whose work advances scientific and technological research in DOE mission areas, such as fusion energy, geosciences, high energy physics, and materials sciences.

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability is celebrating its 10th anniversary by focusing with renewed urgency on more powerful ways to translate knowledge into action.