Day: 7 December 2025

Scotland’s first commercial windfarm has been supercharged to deliver more clean energy

Stuart Mitchell

ScottishPower Renewables’ Hagshaw Hill kickstarted Scotland’s wind revolution when its turbines started turning in 1995.  Thirty years on, it’s undergone an upgrade that enables it to generate five times more clean power from fewer turbines. Repowering is the fastest, most efficient way to boost renewable capacity and hit Scotland’s 2030 onshore wind targets by using sites that are already proven. The windfarm’s 26 turbines have been replaced by 14 more powerful models, generating over 79MW of clean electricity – five times the output from just over half the number of…

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Sodexo joins Bright Future Co-op to support survivors of modern slavery find employment

Stuart Mitchell

Sodexo UK & Ireland reaffirms its leadership in driving social mobility with the announcement of a new partnership with Bright Future Co-op to support survivors of modern slavery find meaningful employment. Bright Future, a not-for-profit cooperative, works with dedicated business members, such as Sodexo, to support survivors of modern slavery rebuild their lives with long-term employment opportunities. Working with its charity partners across the UK Bright Future offers a national matching service for individuals to find employment. When an opportunity arises the individual is offered four-week work placement, which if successful will…

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The One Club Announces Global Winners For Next Creative Leaders 2025

Stuart Mitchell

The One Club for Creativity today announced the 36 young creatives from 17 countries who are this year’s winners in Next Creative Leaders, a free global competition recognizing women and non-binary creatives on the rise. Celebrating its 10th year, Next Creative Leaders was created in partnership with The 3% Movement as the industry’s only free portfolio competition that identifies, celebrates, and provides a global platform to talented women, non-binary, and trans creatives who are making their mark on the world with both their work and unique point of view on creative leadership that’s changing…

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Unity Trust Bank launches a £100m green tariff to help customers reduce their carbon footprint

Stuart Mitchell

Unity Trust Bank has launched a new green tariff for loans supporting organisations taking actions to improve energy efficiency and pursue a low carbon future. The tariff is available to new and existing customers and will provide beneficial lending terms to those looking to reduce the environmental footprint of their buildings. It’s also suitable for organisations that have already achieved high levels of energy efficiency. The £100m ringfenced finance is for eligible energy savings and carbon reduction projects such as low carbon heating, improved insulation, small scale renewable energy and…

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First Study of Its Kind Finds Deep-Sea Mining Waste Threatens Life and Foodwebs in the Ocean’s Dim “Twilight Zone”

Stuart Mitchell

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa published recently in Nature Communications is the first-of-its-kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in the Pacific’s biodiverse Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) could disrupt marine life in the midwater “twilight zone” — a vital region 200-1,500 meters below sea level that supports vast communities of zooplankton, tiny animals that serve as the ocean’s basic food building blocks. Specifically, it finds that 53% of all zooplankton and 60% of micronekton, which feed on zooplankton, would be…

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