While I usually write about tech, I also write about what tech companies are doing in CSR. Corporate social responsibility (CSR)—while unfortunately, the phrase has come to be a bit of a misnomer, believe it or not, there are for-profit corporations out there that take their commitment to society and their communities very seriously. One …
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Unilever shareholders will vote at the company’s annual general meeting on May 5 on measures including plans to cut emissions from its operations to net zero by 2030 and to halve the environmental impact of its products Consumer goods giant Unilever Plc will put its plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions to a shareholder vote, it said on Monday, …
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Nanoscale devices integrated into the leaves of living plants can detect the toxic heavy metal in real time. Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Scientists from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have engineered a novel type …
SMART researchers engineer a plant-based sensor to monitor arsenic levels in soil Read More »
‘We must put an end to all kinds of waste,’ says Turkish scientist Referring to increasing trends of extreme weather events, especially high temperatures, Turkish scientists warned the world may find itself at a point of no return if humanity does not learn necessary lessons. Speaking to Anadolu Agency on the latest sobering report about …
Vi CSR has deployed Nokia’s Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING) solution to equip 50,000 farmers in India with precise and practical data to help them achieve better yields Deployment of the smart agriculture-as-a-service solution will include soil probes, weather stations, insect traps and crop cameras to help drive productivity of soy and cotton crops Nokia and Vodafone …
