Month: August 2024

SGS Green Mark awarded to ARCH Textiles for recycled fiber made from 100% PET bottles

Stuart Mitchell

SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has awarded textile manufacturer ARCH the SGS Green Mark for its Magnif-ECO® Recycled Fiber. With its mission to create a better future through sustainable textile innovation, ARCH sought SGS Green Mark certification to verify that its innovative new material is created from 100% post-consumer plastic water bottles; and demonstrate to consumers that its environmental claims can be trusted. Eric Wang, Global Deputy Technical Head, Softlines at SGS said: “We applaud the advances ARCH has made in developing new and innovative fibers…

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AI-led Science Innovation Protects Communities Hit by Climate Change

Stuart Mitchell

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Oxford University Physics Department, IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), and various national forecasting and meteorology agencies across east Africa are joining forces to pioneer a transformative initiative that is revolutionising extreme weather forecasting and early warning systems in the region. In east Africa, where deadly floods have succeeded the worst drought in decades, climate change is accelerating the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, the need for precise and timely forecasts has never been more critical. In an era marked…

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Fashion and Lifestyle Giant Inditex (Zara) Joins Canopy’s Pack4Good Initiative to Keep Vital Forests Out of Paper Packaging

Stuart Mitchell

Inditex, the parent company of fashion brand Zara, and six other brands such as Berksha and Massimo Dutti, is joining solutions-driven non-profit Canopy’s Pack4Good campaign. Through Pack4Good, partners focus on sustainable alternatives to logging Ancient and Endangered Forests, including recycled pulp and paper, Next Generations Solutions, and FSC Certification. Inditex’s decade-long CanopyStyle commitment to eliminate the use of Ancient and Endangered Forests in their textiles has now expanded to ensure these vital forests are not ending up in their paper packaging. The fashion sector is a major consumer of paper…

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Onetag Takes The Lead On GARM Sustainability Framework With Cedara Partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Following the release of GARM’s (Global Alliance for Responsible Media) new sustainability framework, Onetag has selected Cedara, the Carbon Intelligence Platform, to quantify the sustainability benefits of its AI-powered media curation for the programmatic supply chain. Onetag will incorporate Cedara as a core element of its corporate sustainability strategy and provide comprehensive emissions measurement for buy-and sell-side customers as part of its Smart Curation Platform.  Measurement of all campaigns will be compliant with industry-standard measurement frameworks, including SRI & Alliance Digitale from now, and GARM in the near future. Integration is already underway,…

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Karger Publishers Partners with Ludenso to Enhance Journal Content through 3D and Augmented Reality

Stuart Mitchell

Karger Publishers, a global provider of scientific and medical content, has joined forces with Ludenso, a leader in augmented reality (AR) technology, to give researchers and clinicians the ability to visualize journal article data with 3D and AR. A pioneer in the field of medical research, Karger publishes more than 100 journals covering over 25 medical disciplines. Using Ludenso’s platform, Karger now provides a new service to its authors, adding a new dimension to how they present their data, engage with diverse audiences, and expand the reach of their research.…

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