Startups are being challenged to drive the sustainable mobility revolution. Innovators Magazine reported last year the Michelin-led Movin’On conference – taking place in Montréal from 30 May to 1 June – will bring together the biggest names in the automotive industry in a bid to pull together a roadmap for achieving sustainable transport systems.
Source: www.innovatorsmag.com
The virtual Big Food Workshop, by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, is unique opportunity to look at building constructive change in food systems for healthier planet and communities.
As June 2019 comes to a sweltering close, edie rounds up some of the most-read sustainability stories and standout pieces of content from the past 30 days – from net-zero laws to a new war on plastics.
Think twice before accessing the environmental part of your mind at the sound of the buzzword ‘sustainability’. The term has been largely connected to climate change or resources for energy production, or economic growth. In this article, part of our Building Back Better Series, we focus on the social (and often neglected) aspect of sustainability, the one which is actually the basis for all other pillars to build on. Have associations realized their role in this? Is there enough awareness on the matter before changes within an organization are made?
Palm oil is often associated with tropical deforestation above all else. However, this is only one side of the story, as agricultural scientists from the University of Göttingen and the IPB University Bogor (Indonesia) show in a new study.
Four key considerations for infusing sustainability throughout your entire supply chain.
Britain’s government is mulling a proposal from the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) that would force online retailers to collect old electronics from customers for recycling. Although this would theoretically limit the amount of old kit sent to landfill, and thus the amount of raw materials that need to be extracted to produce new products, it would also put online retailers on the same footing as their bricks-and-mortar equivalents. Traditional retailers – like Currys PC World and John Lewis – that sell over £100,000 of electrical equipment each year are obligated to take back electrical waste from their customers, either in-store or through other means.