Day: 8 October 2025

Virgin Media O2 and Coventry City Council scale groundbreaking tech reuse partnership to tackle e-waste and support more people to get online

Stuart Mitchell

Virgin Media O2 and Coventry City Council have bolstered their existing partnership to scale up the council’s pioneering #CovConnects digital inclusion programme and its device bank initiative that rehomes end-of-first-life devices from businesses and public sector organisations, redistributing them to people who need them across communities in Coventry.  The project aims to increase the number of Coventry businesses and organisations that donate their unused tech to #CovConnects to prevent devices, such as phones, tablets, and laptops, from ending up as electronic waste (e-waste). Instead, the tech is given a second…

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The Booker Prize Foundation partners with BookKind to ‘support readers and writers of the future’

Stuart Mitchell

The Booker Prize Foundation, the charity that awards the Booker Prize and International Booker Prize, recently announced a partnership with BookKind, the new online bookshop that donates 10% of every sale to charity.  Through the partnership, customers shopping at BookKind can now choose to support the Booker Prize Foundation directly, helping fund its work to ensure that literature is a vital and inclusive part of the cultural landscape. Through the Booker Prize and International Booker Prize – two of the world’s most significant literary awards, which transform the careers of…

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Clean Air Task Force releases updated global fusion map tracking rapid growth in fusion energy development

Stuart Mitchell

Clean Air Task Force has released an updated version of its Global Fusion Map, a public resource that tracks the rapidly expanding international fusion energy landscape.  The new edition highlights major additions across private-sector projects, government initiatives, research collaborations, and commercial milestones. Designed for policymakers, industry leaders, journalists, and the public, the tool provides a clear picture of how the field is evolving and where activity is concentrated.  The updated map underscores three major global trends:   Private capital is accelerating fusion growth. The number of companies developing fusion technologies…

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MSC and OOCL emerge as the most ‘Scope 3’ efficient carriers: Report reveals low-carbon leaders on Asia–Northern Europe trade lane

Stuart Mitchell

OceanScore’s second edition of its monthly Scope 3 at Sea report shows that carrier choice can materially reduce Scope 3 emissions exposure, with MSC and OOCL offering shippers the strongest combination of scale, efficiency, and predictability. The report, published today, focuses on the Asia–Northern Europe trade lane for the period January–June 2025. The report highlights striking differences in how major carriers balance scale, emissions efficiency, and operational consistency. MSC and OOCL emerged as the most efficient carriers on the Asia–Northern Europe trade lane, thanks to their combination of below-average carbon…

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Elite Media To Host $50,000 Pitch Competition At 2025 “Where Are All The Black People” Conference

Stuart Mitchell

The highlight of this year’s Where Are All The Black People (WAATBP) annual diversity conference and career fair will be an exciting “Keep It 100” entrepreneur pitch competition sponsored by Elite Media, where one winner will receive $50,000 in funding. Now in its 15th edition from the nonprofit One Club for Creativity, WAATBP 2025 is a hybrid event on October 16-17, 2025, with the first day taking place online and the second in person at Convene, 177 West 46th St. near New York’s Times Square. WAATBP 2025 keynote address on…

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