Ten years ago, brands could get by without making a statement. But disease, social injustice, economic collapse and war are weighing heavily on your shoppers’ minds right now. While the world is never going to be a perfect place, it’s clear that shoppers expect businesses to do more than just provide products and services. In …
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Odisha’s first restaurant to be operated entirely by differently-abled persons has come up in Puri. BHUBANESWAR : Among the large number of restaurants dotting the Puri landscape, ‘Chatni’ stands out. Being the first restaurant in Odisha to be run entirely by differently-abled persons, it uses food as an element of social change and for empowering its …
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Over the last few years, plant-based meat alternatives seemingly went from obscure to arguably mainstream with the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat now being incorporated in fast food chain staples at the likes of Burger King and Dunkin. While much of the motivation for both producing and eating meat alternatives is rooted in sustainability, the …
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Temie Giwa-Tubosun’s business uses data and technology to get urgent blood supplies to hospitals and to save lives. Temie Giwa-Tubosun had an epiphany 13 years ago when she met an expectant mother who was about to lose her baby. Giwa-Tubosun was working as a 22-year-old intern with a health services organisation in northern Nigeria, doing …
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KEY POINTS A new peer-reviewed study published Thursday in the journal Nature found global warming will drive 4,000 viruses to spread between mammals, including potentially between animals and humans, for the first time by 2070. Bats are especially responsible for novel viral transmission because they fly. It would cost $1 billion to properly identify and …
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