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The Companies Bringing Sustainability to Their Customers

24/05/2022

Business Tips, News, Retail, Sustainability

Businesses can play a huge role in making sustainability more accessible to consumers. This week’s news shows how three major companies are making an impact and helping others do the same. IKEA Plans to Sell Solar Panels to Customers This month, IKEA US partnered with residential solar panel manufacturer SunPower to launch a new programme […]

Sandgreen Caravan Park Drives Sustainability with Play it Green

19/05/2022

Business Tips, News

Sandgreen Caravan Park have partnered with Play it Green to make their workforce Climate Positive, lower their carbon footprint, and give back to a good cause. Sandgreen Caravan Park is an idyllic, peaceful and natural holiday park in Southern Scotland, nestled behind the sweeping curve of its own private sandy beach, their customers have […]

Drones Could Soon Deliver Your Mail

17/05/2022

News, Sustainability

Royal Mail has recently unveiled plans to deploy a fleet of more than 500 drones across the UK in a bid to reduce emissions and improve reliability in remote communities. The initiative is being done in partnership with Windracers, a logistics drone company specialising in mail delivery. The plan will see Royal Mail use […]

A Look at the Climate-Resilient Floating City of the Future

10/05/2022

News, Sustainability

Image Source: OCEANIX/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group The changing climate makes sea level rises a serious and dangerous threat, putting up to 760 million people living in coastal regions at risk. One South Korean city is hoping to ‘turn the tides’ with a new city, one that can sustain itself and floats on the sea. The project, […]

How Being Sustainable Helps Attract Better Talent

09/05/2022

Business Tips, News

Businesses who embrace sustainability often do so out of a responsibility to the planet or to attract more customers. Yet, there’s another reason why they should consider it: to attract better talent. Employees are looking more and more to get hired by companies performing well on environmental sustainability and social responsibility. Take Unilever as […]

World Environment Day: What is it and why should you care?

05/05/2022

News, Other, Sustainability

It's one month till World Environment Day! Taking place every June 5th, the event is led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and has been held every year since 1974. Now, it is the largest global platform for environmental outreach, with millions of people around the world engaging to protect the planet. […]

Plastic-Eating Bacteria and How They Could Save the World

03/05/2022

News, Sustainability

The manufacturing of plastic pollutes our air, and its waste pollutes our environment. In the ocean, microplastic particles may have started to outnumber zooplankton, and we humans are unintentionally eating a credit card’s worth of plastic every week. Solving the issue won’t be easy, but some scientists believe they have found the key: […]

Breakthroughs in Solar Energy: 18 Hour Storage and Solar Phones

26/04/2022

News, Sustainability

A “radical” new scientific breakthrough in solar energy storage means that solar-powered electronics are one step closer to becoming a part of our everyday lives. In 2017, a group of scientists at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden created an energy system that makes it possible to capture and store solar energy for […]

Consumer Attitudes Towards Sustainability and What We Can Learn

25/04/2022

Business Tips, News, Sustainability

New research has shown that consumer attitudes towards sustainability have changed. More consumers (64%) are concerned about the environment than they are about their own financial situation (54%), their health (40%), or the health of others (47%). The study by Accenture questioned more than 2,000 UK adults about their shopping habits and how important […]

Climate Innovations: Solar ‘Bricks’ and Ocean Corn

19/04/2022

News, Sustainability

Renewables are picking up and the world is starting to buckle down when it comes to fighting climate change. Finding solutions to the world’s biggest problem isn’t easy, but scientists, engineers, and innovators are working every day to make the world a better place. In this article, we look at some of the most […]

How to Solve Climate Change, According to Climate Scientists

12/04/2022

News, Sustainability

The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on mitigation was released recently. After a particularly dreary look at how we are currently progressing into the climate crisis in their last report, this new one offers hope with the ways we can stop, or at the very least reduce its effects. […]