Year: 2024

Starbucks UK and Hubbub are funding 100 green spaces for communities across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Together with environmental charity Hubbub, Starbucks UK has funded 100 new community green spaces across the UK – with an average distance of 2km from a Starbucks store – to help provide local communities with access to nature. Totaling £600,000, the Nature Hubs Fund as it has been dubbed by charity partner Hubbub, has funded a plethora of different outdoor projects including new gardens that grow food for the local community, outdoor theatres, yoga studios and areas for music performances to help residents connect, and converting unused, dilapidated buildings like…

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FareShare awarded $75k grant from Cisco Foundation for FARE Allocation Project

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare has been awarded with a $75k grant from Cisco Foundation Regional Grants for its FARE Allocation Project. The FARE Allocation Project is designed to make our food distribution more equitable and more aligned with the geographical distribution of poverty and other indicators of deprivation across the UK. It will take official data on various indices of deprivation and ensure we are directing food and other resources to the areas which are currently underserved. FareShare was nominated for the grant by a Cisco Foundation employee who is a volunteer at…

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Alzheimer’s Research UK voted in as Roadchef’s new charity partner

Stuart Mitchell

Alzheimer’s Research UK are thrilled to announce our new charity partner, leading motorway service area operator, Roadchef. Roadchef has been a part of the nation’s journeys for over five decades, welcoming more than 52 million road users across 30 services a year. To help protect the big and small memories Roadchef see made every day, they’ve chosen to support our work. “Thank you to the Roadchef team for voting to stand with us for a cure for dementia. Together, we will end the heartbreak it causes.” – Hilary Evans, Chief…

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CARBIOS and Zhink Group enter official discussions for long-term partnership to build PET biorecycling industrial capacities in China

Stuart Mitchell

CARBIOS, (Euronext Growth Paris : ALCRB), a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to reinvent the life cycle of plastic and textiles, and Zhink Group, one of China’s Top 500 Private Enterprises, specializing in two global industries, PET and textiles, announce today the signing of a joint Letter of Intent to build a biorecycling plant in China using CARBIOS’ revolutionary enzymatic depolymerization technology to serve the global market. This agreement officializes collaboration towards a long-term partnership in view of a first licensing contract to build a plant with a minimum…

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First-Ever Global Renewables Summit Announced to Drive Action to Triple Renewable Power by 2030 and Advance Global Energy Transition during 79th UN General Assembly

Stuart Mitchell

The Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) and Bloomberg Philanthropies, in partnership with the governments of Barbados and Kenya, the European Commission, the COP28 and COP29 Presidencies, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), and the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University – SIPA announced the Global Renewables Summit, the first-ever high-level public-private summit to discuss the progress, opportunities, and challenges of tripling renewable energy globally by 2030. The Summit will be held in New York from 23-25 September on…

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