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Food waste contributes 10% to global emissions but 9 out of 10 countries’ NDCs fail to focus on food waste and loss

Envirotec Magazine

The series of workshops will highlight projects and solutions from around the world to representatives from government, business, multilaterals and other civil society organizations. Harriet Lamb, ‘Food, textiles and manufactured products account for nearly 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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State of the Circular Workplace 2023: A Green Standards Report

GreenBiz

This report features insights from Steelcase, Starbucks, General Motors, Haworth, CBRE, Teknion, Davies Office, Rheaply, M Moser, Cuningham, BIFMA, the USGBC, and many more organizations. The result engages employees, saves money, cuts emissions, and turns the engines of the economy into workshops for the circular economy.

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Sustainability and the never-ending battle against burnout

GreenBiz

Then, with shame burning my face, I had to cancel a GreenBiz workshop I was leading about how to take care of yourself. I’d spent weeks designing the workshop. I kept moving ahead: negotiating the legal aspects of my divorce, co-parenting our adolescent son, running leadership development workshops, coaching almost 20 clients.

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London event will coach public on repair skills

Envirotec Magazine

With an estimated 25 million items of textiles, 10 million bikes, 19 million electrical items, 16 million items of furniture and 14 million bathroom fixtures or fittings* in need of repair in London homes, say the organizers, there are some massive savings to be made from learning a few basic repairs.

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3rd JIVE Roadshow: Hydrogen Leads the Development of Green Urban Mobility

FuelCellsWorks

The potential of hydrogen as an accelerator of the energy transformation of urban transport was highlighted by the workshop co-organized by the Bioeconomy and Environment Cluster of Western Macedonia –.

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Closing the loop for plastics in electronics: New report

Envirotec Magazine

A new report – “Improving the loops of plastics in electronics” – shares the conclusions from a recent workshop on Waste of Electrical and Electronic equipment (WEEE) plastics, organized by BSEF, the International Bromine Council, during the International Electronics recycling conference (IERC 2022).

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45th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop a huge success

ThinkGeoEnergy

The 45th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop was a huge success, with nearly 350 delegates attending the event organized by the Geothermal Institute at the University of Auckland. The post 45th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop a huge success first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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