Day: 23 August 2024

Tesco launches innovative feed trial to cut dairy emissions

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has announced it’s partnering with Grosvenor Farms, one of its key UK dairy farms, to trial a methane-reducing feed supplement for dairy cows. Identified as having one of the lowest carbon footprints of any UK milk producer, Grosvenor Farms, one of the original members of the Tesco Sustainable Dairy Group (TSDG), has added the methane-reducing feed supplement to the diet of 400 cows as part of the trial. Methane from cattle burps and manure is a big contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In digesting their high fibre diet, cows…

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Pampers Teams Up With U.S. Track & Field Legend Allyson Felix to Support NICU Families

Stuart Mitchell

This summer, Pampers is working to support preemie parents with the help of U.S. Track & Field legend, 11-time Olympic medalist, and mother Allyson Felix through a donation of up to one million preemie diapers to NICUs across the country. From July 2, 2024, through September 2, 2024, Pampers will donate one Pampers Preemie Swaddlers diaper to Children’s Miracle Network hospitals for every purchase of a Pampers Swaddlers Huge Pack at Walmart, up to one million diapers. Becoming a parent is one of the biggest and most exciting changes that…

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Heather Dawn Thompson Joins WWF as Vice President of Native Nations Conservation and Food Systems

Stuart Mitchell

Heather Dawn Thompson will join World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as Vice President, Native Nations Conservation and Food Systems, on September 9, where she will work across the organization to guide and advance WWF’s support for and partnerships with Native Nations and Native-led organizations. An initial focus will be Tribally-led buffalo restoration efforts. Most recently, she served as Director of Tribal Relations at the United States Department of Agriculture, where she led the Secretary of Agriculture’s work on Native Nations policies and oversaw the Department’s Indian trust and treaty responsibilities. While…

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Asda publishes latest Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has published its 2023 Brighter Living Report – its fourth report updating on the progress made towards its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) targets in the last calendar year.   Key updates from the report include:  Carbon  Continued reduction in carbon emissions (scope 1-3), down 7% on 2022 and 15% since Asda first began reporting its full carbon footprint in 2020.  To drive further reductions, Asda’s highest carbon impact suppliers* are now required to share sustainability progress through the EcoVadis data-sharing and assessment platform.  Packaging   Increased the proportion of own-brand…

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Tech systems worldwide are fueling gender inequalities

Stuart Mitchell

Around the world various tech systems are reinforcing gender inequalities and entrenching racial, socio-economic systems of power, Amnesty International said in a briefing titled “Gender and Human Rights in the Digital Age.”   Marginalized groups, including women and LGBTI people, face threats to their human rights due to extensive and improper data collection practices that do not reflect their individual realities. Governments justify such data grab tactics as a cost-saving solution to roll-out automated systems in the public sector for benefit payments, while Big Tech companies hoard and deploy personal…

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