Month: July 2022

Cisco Foundation Sparks Innovation by Investing in Promising Solutions to Climate Change

Stuart Mitchell

Cisco have highlighted their new grants for climate change in the following blog post: It is hard to look at the news or social media today and not be confronted with the issue of climate change. Scientific research continues to show that human-induced global warming, species extinction, and habitat loss is causing widespread disruption in nature and affecting billions of people through storms, flooding, wildfires, drought, food scarcity, and other crises. Meanwhile, more and more people are becoming concerned about these existential threats, and looking for ways to both raise…

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Vattenfall and Preem to investigate large scale decarbonization using offshore wind and hydrogen

Stuart Mitchell

Vattenfall and Preem will now enter into a feasibility phase to assess the possibility of accelerating the development of a value chain connecting offshore wind and hydrogen with the refining industry on the Swedish west coast to swiftly transform to fossil-free fuels, starting latest 2030. Vattenfall sees a huge potential to decarbonize industries like refining, petrochemicals, steel, and fertilizers by using fossil-free electricity and hydrogen. Preem and Vattenfall believe that in order to strengthen Sweden’s position as a frontrunner in the emerging markets of fossil-free fuels and materials, new partnerships…

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Regenerative Organic Certification Program Approves SCS Global Services as Certification Body

Stuart Mitchell

SCS Global Services (SCS), a pioneer and global leader in third-party environmental and sustainability certification, auditing, testing, and standards development, today announced it has been approved by the Regenerative Organic Alliance as an authorized certification body to the Regenerative Organic Certification Standard. The standard is a holistic, high-bar agriculture certification standard for food, textiles and personal care products. Using the USDA Organic standard as its baseline, the Regenerative Organic Alliance aimed to establish a new standard of excellence by developing and incorporating advanced criteria under three pillars – soil health,…

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Mastercard Commits to Delivering Economic Empowerment Tools and Resources to More Than One Million Women in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras

Stuart Mitchell

During the 9th Summit of the Americas held in Los Angeles, California, Mastercard reinforced its commitment to advancing financial and digital inclusion in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras with a new set of commitments and programs focused on advancing economic empowerment for women and girls in the region.  The commitments are part of Mastercard’s engagement, as a founding member, in the Partnership for Central America (PCA). According to the Latin American Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CELIEM) Women’s Entrepreneurship Monitor of 2022, 60% of women business owners in Central America…

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Know Your SHST – opioid crisis campaign by The Garden

Stuart Mitchell

Timmins, Ontario is getting its “SHST” together in the difficult fight against the opioid poisoning crisis, thanks to the new Safe Health Site Timmins (more commonly known as SHST). The safe injection and treatment site recently enlisted Toronto agency The Garden to create a provocative campaign to educate Timmins residents on how it plans to help the community at large. The northern Ontario city of 41,000 has become the epicentre of Canada’s opioid crisis in recent years, with one of the country’s highest per capita death rates from opioids (72…

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