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TCS Inaugurates Pace Port Pittsburgh, a Co-Innovation and Advanced Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University

3BL Media

Thirty percent of the building materials also included recycled content, and 75% of the waste created during construction was either recycled or salvaged. Nearly 30% of construction materials were purchased locally to reduce the carbon footprint of construction.

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Agilent’s 2022 ESG Report Shows Progress Helping Customers Reach Their Sustainability Goals

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Achieved 94 percent diversion of solid waste. million in cash and in-kind contributions to support graduate students in STEM disciplines and academics working on innovative research that aligns with Agilent’s mission and business strategy. Reduced energy and water consumption intensity by 9.5 percent and 27.6 Donated $7.5

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AI solutions to sustainability challenges share £1 million as Manchester Prize names finalists

Envirotec Magazine

Finalists included Greyparrot Insights, which tracks waste in recycling plants to build a digital map of the packaging value chain. It aims to create a complete digital map of the world’s waste flows to track what happens when waste is discarded and support the value chain to improve packaging design, policymaking and recycling rates.

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Tetra Pak U.S. and Canada 2022 Sustainability Report: Food

3BL Media

Educators report that school meals can help students with lack of energy, poor academic performance and an inability to concentrate. Milk consumption increased 6% and waste declined 5%. As a result, schools purchase a significant amount of milk. million gallons (5.7 million liters) of milk each year.

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Transforming Chicago

Corporate Knights

WSP contributed well-beyond the role of technical advisor and providing GHG modeling, by lending analytical skills to evaluate climate actions for their contributions to local and equitable co-benefit, developing narrative content and supporting the lauded graphic design of the CAP.

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Building a More Sustainable Future with 6G

3BL Media

6G Flagship , a consortium of academic and industry leaders guiding 6G research, released a whitepaper examining the role that this technology can play not just in increasing productivity, but in aiding humanity. The technology sector is poised to create long-term solutions toward environmental sustainability. Agriculture.

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An Emerging Priority in Climate Resilience: How Zambia’s Green Growth Strategy — And its Business Sector — Are Addressing the Risk of Climate-Induced Social Instability

James Militzer

This was not merely an academic exercise; it was about creating a shared language that would enable more effective communication and collaboration across the country’s ministries and sectors.