Month: August 2025

Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2025 Literary Grants

Stuart Mitchell

Since 2009, Amazon Literary Partnership has provided more than $18 million in funding to local, regional, and national organizations across the country that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive. At Amazon, we believe in the power of words to transform lives, communities, and the world. We are honored to support these vital and vibrant organizations that support and champion writers. This year, the Amazon Literary Partnership will provide $1 million in funding to 99 literary organizations across the country. From youth-focused writing programs to residency programs, publications…

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Edinburgh International Festival To Be First Charity on Net Zero Pathway

Stuart Mitchell

Edinburgh International Festival is the first charity, and the first arts organisation, in the UK to achieve the British Standards Institute’s (BSI) Net Zero Pathway verification, as part of its commitment to sustainable practice. This achievement underpins the International Festival’s commitment to Net Zero by 2045, in all its activity, from delivering year-round work with workshops, community engagement projects, and support for emerging artists, to an August festival programme that features world-class performers from the worlds of dance, opera, music and theatre. Aligning with BSI’s Net Zero Pathway’s ISO 14064-1…

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INEOS Invests £30 Million to Slash Emissions at Hull Site by 75%

Stuart Mitchell

INEOS has completed a major £30 million investment at its Hull manufacturing site, converting the facility to run on clean-burning hydrogen instead of natural gas. The result? A 75% cut in carbon emissions – the equivalent of taking around 160,000 petrol cars off the road and a huge step towards INEOS’ net zero commitment, well ahead of 2050. This is real progress. Not talk. Not targets. Action. The investment is part of INEOS’ wider strategy to decarbonise its operations across the UK and Europe. INEOS Acetyls is the only industrial…

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The Ocean Cleanup and AWS Join Forces to Accelerate Ocean Plastic Removal using AI

Stuart Mitchell

The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization dedicated to ridding the world’s oceans and rivers of plastic pollution, today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN). This collaboration will leverage AWS’s advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing capabilities to enable and accelerate The Ocean Cleanup’s goal to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) and remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040. Recent research by The Ocean Cleanup found that the GPGP is impeding the ocean’s ability to help regulate…

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UKRI has published its 2024 to 2025 annual report and accounts

Stuart Mitchell

The report updates on progress against UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) strategy: transforming tomorrow together. The report, which has been laid before parliament, includes a performance report providing a summary of UKRI’s performance and finances. The highlights are quoted from the report are below: Delivery against the strategic objectives The report outlines what has been delivered against the six strategic objectives in the strategy, including the following. People and careers We invested over £500 million in new Doctoral Landscape awards to support around 4,700 studentships across the engineering and physical…

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