Day: 31 October 2023

SPAR launches ‘Giving One Million Meals’ campaign

Stuart Mitchell

SPAR has launched its ‘Giving One Million Meals’ partnership with FareShare, the UK’s biggest charity fighting hunger and tackling food waste. “We understand how important it is to have the cupboard essentials you need to hand and it’s really interesting to see how our essentials have changed over the years and which are still our firm favourites. Our partnership with FareShare will see £250,000 donated, and for every £1 given FareShare can redistribute enough food for the equivalent of four meals to people in need across the UK.”Suzanne Dover, Brand…

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Fruitful pickings – Tesco works with Veolia to recycle soft plastic and support schools across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco is joining forces with leading sustainable resource management company Veolia, Groundwork and local councils to introduce greener areas in schools, and give children a stronger start by learning more about the environment. The Veolia Orchard campaign will be donating almost 600 fruit trees and 800 strawberry plants to schools limited by space or without green areas. Now in its second year the scheme has expanded across another 190 schools thanks to the generous support of 22 local authorities. To house the plants, Tesco will be donating planters made from…

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Discovery Education and Leading Corporate and Nonprofit Partners Launch First-of-Its-Kind Initiative Supporting Sustainability

Stuart Mitchell

Discovery Education, the worldwide leader in education solutions, recently announced it has partnered with Subaru of America, Inc., LyondellBasell, Nucor, Honeywell, and the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) to launch the Sustainability Education Coalition. This first-of-its-kind initiative is focused on empowering over 10 million students by 2030 to serve as ambassadors for sustainability by providing the digital resources K-12 students need to make informed decisions and take responsible actions supporting sustainability.   Coalition partners are united in the goal of empowering tomorrow’s changemakers by connecting classroom learning to various sustainability…

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The Climate Pledge and C40 Cities Partner to Launch Laneshift, an International Initiative to Decarbonize Freight Trucks in Developing Countries

Stuart Mitchell

The Climate Pledge—co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism—and C40 Cities recently launched Laneshift, a partnership to tackle carbon emissions through zero-emission freight by reimagining medium- and heavy-duty shipping vehicles and the routes they travel. Road freight is a major source of air pollution and one of the most important sectors to decarbonize, but it’s also one of the most challenging. And according to the Global Commercial Vehicle Roadmap for reaching 100% zero emission commercial trucks sales by 2040, cities will need to be saturated with electric vehicle (EV) trucks by…

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Global collaboration to accelerate clean energy innovation

Stuart Mitchell

The UK, with the US, Canada and Australia, has invested £61 million in the Global Centers on clean energy and climate change. Global Centers on clean energy and climate change is an ambitious, novel clean energy and climate change programme being delivered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in conjunction with like-minded international funders. Led by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the initiative is funding international, interdisciplinary collaborative research on use-inspired themes in clean energy and climate change. It is also creating an ecosystem of global centres generating outcomes and…

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