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Dec 11 2020December 11, 2020

Qatar Academy Sidra educates next generation on sustainability

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Education, Save Earth, sustainability / By SLSV / December 11, 2020 December 11, 2020

Qatar Academy Sidra students recently planted 15 trees, 20 bushes, 150 tomato plants, and more than 500 seasonal flowers around campus to honour Dr Jane Goodall’s commitment to planting 5mn trees in 2020, and to help create a local ‘greening’ community. “The planet is in danger, and children understand that,” said Preet Dhaliwal, Sustainability Instructional …

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Nov 10 2020November 10, 2020

Sustainable agriculture for climate change mitigation makes the earth safer and healthier

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, Environment, Save Earth, sustainability / By SLSV / November 10, 2020 November 10, 2020

The frequent and rapid environmental pollution causes serious threat to biodiversity and also disturbs the natural ecosystem. Due to excessive use of chemicals during food production human beings suffer from a number of incurable diseases such as cancer, heart attack, kidney damage, liver cirrhosis, etc. The word “sustainable” has become very popular these days and …

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Nov 4 2020November 4, 2020

Meet the entrepreneurs crafting shoes from old tyres

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Innovation, Save Earth, sustainability, Technology / By SLSV / November 4, 2020 November 4, 2020

Though conservation is the key purpose behind these shoes, style does not take a backseat either What happens to vehicle tyres once they have outlived their purpose? Often, the end-of-life tyres are put through thermochemical treatment under high temperature, to produce industrial oil and other matter, in a process called pyrolysis. The procedure emits polluting …

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Nov 2 2020November 2, 2020

Professor Ning Yan is developing a new generation of sustainable plant-based materials and products

Leave a Comment / CSR, Innovation, Plant Based, sustainability / By SLSV / November 2, 2020 November 2, 2020

Ning Yan and her collaborators in the Low-Carbon Renewable Materials Centre (LCRMC) are developing a new generation of products made from forestry biomass — including currently under-utilized materials such as tree bark. (Photo: Tyler Irving) Canada’s forests are a key source of renewable materials, from paper to lumber. Yet many of the industry’s most common products …

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Oct 23 2020October 23, 2020

Replacing fossil-based plastics with renewables – introducing Mysoda’s new sparkling water makers made of innovative UPM Formi EcoAce

1 Comment / ChangeMaker, Innovation, sustainability, Technology / By SLSV / October 23, 2020 October 23, 2020

UPM Biocomposites and Finnish Mysoda have collaborated to create a range of sparkling water makers made almost entirely out of renewable materials. Traditionally, small kitchen appliances are made out of fossil-based plastics, so this innovation takes the sustainability of this type of product to a completely new level by substantially reducing the carbon footprint of …

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