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CISL launches a new College membership option for their Master’s students

Stuart Mitchell

Starting this year CISL’s Master’s in Sustainability Leadership applicants can choose St Edmund’s to be their ‘home’ in Cambridge. From September, when the application window opens for cohorts joining in 2026, applicants to the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership can choose St Edmund’s as their College. St Edmund’s joins colleges where we have existing relationships, i.e. Fitzwilliam, and Robinson Colleges. Master’s in Sustainability Leadership for the Built Environment students will continue to be members of Wolfson College. Although students can choose any College at Cambridge, these four Colleges are well placed…

Dr Mya-Rose Craig named new RSPCA Ambassador as Black2Nature team act for wildlife

Stuart Mitchell

The RSPCA has unveiled British-Bangladeshi ornithologist, author and campaigner Dr Mya-Rose Craig as a new Ambassador – at a special event in Bristol, which saw a team of Visible Minority Ethnic children come together to protect the city’s wildlife from litter. Fourteen children, aged between 8 and 14, from the Black2Nature charity were at Brandon Hill in Bristol yesterday (20 August) for a litter pick aimed at improving the local environment and keeping animals safe from the “menace” of rubbish. They took part alongside teams from the RSPCA, in a great…

“UK Supermarkets Must Go Further”: Lidl GB Launches ‘Live Well’ Logo To Signpost Healthy Products Based On The Planetary Health Diet

Stuart Mitchell

Lidl GB has become the first discounter to introduce a health  marker to its own-label products: Live Well. A new logo designed to help customers easily identify products that are healthy when shopping in store. While other competitors’ health markers only inform shoppers about nutritional profiles, the Lidl Live Well logo goes a step further with products also needing to align with the Planetary Health Diet, a global diet that is healthy for both people and planet, as well as broader sustainability criteria. The Lidl Live Well logo has been…

Ingka Group makes first circular investment in China with stake in plastic recycler Re-mall

Stuart Mitchell

Ingka Investments, the investment arm of Ingka Group, the largest IKEA retailer, today announces a growth capital injection in Re-mall (Shanghai Re-mall Environmental Protection New Material Co., Ltd.), the China-based recycler of post-consumer packaging waste, which uses a proprietary technique and process to produce transparent recycled polypropylene (“rPP”) for use in new products. The plastic recycling industry faces numerous challenges, which Re-mall is working to overcome. These include contamination from food residues and labels, quality degradation of the material across recycling cycles, high processing costs, and volatile market demand for…

Tsunami of water poverty warning as polling shows how older people on a low income are cutting back on usage

Stuart Mitchell

Almost half (46%) of older adults (65+) in England and Wales living on a low income are currently cutting back their spending on their water usage either a ‘great deal’ or a ‘fair amount, according to a new YouGov poll commissioned by charity Independent Age.  During the first half of 2025 the polling found: 46% of older people on a low income reduced the amount of times they flush the toilet toreduce their water bill 41% reduced how often they use the washing machine 31% reduced how often they shower The new research…