Sustainability Bulletin - 01.30.2023

Dear Friends,

We have prepared a condensed bulletin for you based on news, articles, and developments that recently took place around the globe about Sustainability.

Here’s what happened last week in our Sustainable World;

♻️Sustainable Water: Natural Source Waters is ensuring its new sustainability goals with its new ‘Planet Positive for a Healthier Future’ initiative, which includes new health policies and other environmental innovations. The program will include sessions on sustainability, health, market trends, innovation, and deposit return schemes. This year’s UK Water Drinks Conference, taking place on March 22nd in central London, will be a chance for speakers to discuss the challenges for the natural source waters industry as it seeks to ensure a sustainable future and a net zero goal. Read more: http://bit.ly/3wHrfVG

♻️Green Transition: Climate change was a top priority for c-level business leaders amid global uncertainty, according to Deloitte's 2023 CxO Sustainability Report: Accelerating the Green Transition. When asked to rank the issues most pressing to their organizations, many c-suite leaders (CxOs) rated climate change as a top three issue ahead of seven others, including innovation, competition for talent, and supply chain challenges. In fact, only the economic outlook ranked slightly higher. Also, 75% of CxOs said their organizations have increased their sustainability investments over the past year, nearly 20% of whom said they've increased investments "significantly." Read more: http://bit.ly/3kOCZDs

♻️Sustainability Course: The American Library Association announced a unique new learning opportunity offered in collaboration with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative. Sustainable Librarianship: Core Competencies and Practices will provide library staff with access to expert instruction on the subject.

Registration is open and the course begins on February 13th. The course is four weeks long. In 2019, ALA Council added “sustainability” as a core value of the profession, adopting the triple bottom-line definition of sustainability to ensure balanced decision-making that respects environmental stewardship, social equity, and economic feasibility. As community leaders and facilitators, libraries should be modeling sustainable practices among their staff and within their facilities. Read more: http://bit.ly/3Y7FDTc

♻️European Commission: A draft European Union law will require companies to back up green claims with evidence. The proposal will clamp down on companies promoting their products as "climate neutral" or "containing recycled materials" if such labels are not substantiated. The draft document aims to fight misleading environmental advertisements. Read more: http://bit.ly/3WG2Eex

♻️Organic Produce: The Dining Services leadership team has long prioritized sustainability in dining options and services. That’s why the Babylon micro-farm in the Selleck Food Court presents such a unique opportunity. It allows Dining Services to serve locally grown organic produce without the added expense of purchasing from another supplier. Additionally, it allows for reduced deliveries to campus, reducing the carbon footprint. Read more: http://bit.ly/40bCiUF

♻️Sustainable Fertilizer: Sustainable methods to produce synthetic ammonia for fertilizer can be cost-competitive with the current fossil-fuel-based method, according to a Washington State University study. The findings indicate that these methods are plausible commercial options that can reduce carbon emissions and help increase market stability in an industry that is critical to food production. Read more: http://bit.ly/3JjHno4

♻️Printed Solar Panels: Scientists in Australia are testing printed solar panels they will use to power a Tesla on a 9,400-mile journey beginning in September, which they hope will get the public thinking about steps to help avert climate change. The Charge Around Australia project will power a Tesla electric car with 18 of the team’s printed plastic solar panels, each 59 feet long, rolling them out beside the vehicle to soak up sunlight when it needs a charge. Read more: http://bit.ly/3Y67P8N

♻️Flexible Solar Panels: Solar adoption in the U.S. is booming, but how much more power would we be using if we could manufacture panels that are easier to install and lighter to transport? MIT engineers have been working on this very question over the past decade. Their latest answer? Solar cells so light and flexible that they can be laminated onto almost any material, like the fabric of a disaster relief tent, the sail of a boat, or even “a large carpet that can be unfurled on top of a roof,” says Vladimir Bulović, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT and the co-author of a new paper on the subject.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3XH4rkW

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