From scale to sustainability, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these quotes, excerpts and stories! On the occasion of Earth Day 2019, YourStory salutes all the innovators working on solutions for improving our environment.
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To mark the launch of the long-awaited EURO 2020 tournament, Food Active and the Children’s Food Campaign have teamed up with a new survey to hear what parents think about the marketing of less healthy food and drink through sport. As EURO 2020 finally kicks off on 11 June, so has a massive sponsorship campaign with Coca Cola. A Summer of Sport-themed junk food promotions are popping up everywhere, and that’s no Pringoooals joke. Whether it’s Salt and Lineker flavour Walkers’ crisps at the UEFA Champions League or Peter Crouch sitting on a Just Eat delivery bike, McDonalds adverts splashed across the Olympic swimming and tracks, or cricket teams dressed as KP Snack packets for England Cricket Board’s new family-friendly tournament The Hundred, the race to use sport to sell us more unhealthy food is definitely on.
Mistra Financial Systems (MFS) was set up as an interdisciplinary research program with the goal to assess how the financial sector can contribute to sustainable development. As part of this work, insights from researchers across the program were recorded in a series of discussions on the future of finance.
“I get excited when someone says to me: ‘I have 17 trailer loads of excess product,’” says Claudia Freed. Excess inventory may not be your everyday conversation starter, and it’s not every day that you find an individual who gets excited by the topic. But then Freed is the CEO and president of EALgreen, which is not your everyday philanthropic organization. The EAL stands for Education Assistance Limited. The organization was founded some 40 years ago to provide a means for manufacturers and distributors to earn a tax credit by donating excess inventory to fund college scholarships. Freed, who joined EALgreen as executive director in 1995, was the recipient of the first scholarship in 1982. Back then, she was an immigrant student who had come to the states from Argentina as an 18-year-old with $36 in her pocket. “When I received the scholarship, I was a student at North Park University studying economics, and someone deemed that I had potential,” she recalls. Funding students with potential remains the social impact part of the mission today.
New company will offer solutions to convert plastic waste to value-added products, production of chemicals and fuels from biomass, and decarbonization of existing and future assets.
Cooltrax recognized as a Top Green Provider for 2019 by Food Logistics. Learn more about the honor and the company’s sustainability efforts here on CCJ.
Mary Creagh, chair of the House of Commons environmental audit committee, has said sustainability should be top of the fashion industry’s agenda, and a fundamental requirement for business….