S & S News: The Week in Highlights shares a collection of current articles, reports and stories that are newsworthy in the realm of sustainability, social responsibility and beyond. Feature promise: Absolutely no fake news.
All news in highlights this week is eclipsed by the announcement that Michael Gove is going plastic free for lent!! Just kidding. As we enter March, European leaders address climate change, Macron questions if we will be able to look our children in the eye if we do not reduce our climate debt and schools out for kids as Merkel welcomes their climate strikes. Developments of the America’s Green New Deal probe the question, when can the UK have one?
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation gets active in the Big Apple as it launches its latest circular fashion campaign #WearNext to address the city’s 200 million pounds of clothing that go to landfill each year. It will be the first for the concrete jungle in providing a searchable map of the city with over 1,100 places where clothing can be dropped for recycling and resale.
Featured this week is scientists’ research into the possibilities of bacteria that convert toxic pollutants into less harmful substances and generate electricity in the process. Ikea launches a blockchain project to create a solar clean energy microgrid that could enable whole communities to be entirely self-sufficient for their electricity supply. Meanwhile, Tesco’s chocolate collection becomes 100% certified by the Rainforest Alliance in time for Easter.
Lastly, as Spring is almost sprung and summer vacation planning commences, the BBC release which airline is best for carbon emissions.
Climate change: Which airline is best for carbon emissions? Via BBC
Microplastic pollution revealed ‘absolutely everywhere’ by new research via Guardian
22 of the top 30 most polluted cities in the world are in India via CNN
Macron puts European climate bank on EU election agenda via Climate Change News
Climate change: Angela Merkel welcomes school strikes via BBC
Capturing bacteria that eat and breathe electricity via Science Daily
The Green New Deal is already changing the terms of the climate action debate Via The Conversation
Britain needs a green new deal to revive its economy after Brexit via The Times
Michael Gove cows to cut out single-use plastic for Lent via Independent
IKEA research lab launches blockchain project for solar village via Business Green
Tesco switches to Rainforest certified cocoa amid sustainability demand via Retail Gazette
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