Cleveland Clinic and Nestlé USA Partner on Meal Delivery Wellness Program Cleveland Clinic is partnering with Nestlé USA to launch a first-of-its-kind pilot program providing no-cost frozen meal delivery via Instacart to Cleveland Clinic employees as part of a weight management program. Participants receive e-coaching from a certified health coach for weight management through Cleveland Clinic’s employee health plan. Now, in addition to coaching, they will receive 10 dietitian-approved, frozen prepared meals from Nestlé USA every two weeks for three months at no cost to them. The meals will be delivered via Instacart biweekly from local grocery stores. The program…
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Amcor, Delterra, Mars and P&G form strategic partnership to tackle plastic waste & develop circular economies in the Global South, commit $6 million to tackle plastic pollution by transforming waste management and recycling systems; to impact 10 million people in Indonesia, Argentina and Brazil; three organizations join forces with environmental NGO Delterra. Amcor, Delterra, Mars and P&G jointly announce the launch of a strategic partnership to stem the tide of plastic pollution in the Global South. These global leaders will work together to scale upstream and downstream solutions for a circular plastics economy, jointly committing $6 million USD over five…
Marine mammals like whales play a crucial role in our ecosystem. These giants can store up to 33 tons of CO2 in their bodies, which helps maintain a healthy environment and fights against climate change. Despite protection efforts, many whale species are vulnerable or endangered. Every year, roughly 300,000 whales (of all species) are killed globally due to climate change, which impacts their food supply, pollution, shipping strikes, and habitat loss. Working with WWF, Vodacom is trying to help change this by using cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) technology and infrared cameras to help minimise whale entanglements…
Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, has partnered with the Palmdale Water District (PWD) and carbon removal startup Capture6 to design a first-of-its-kind Advanced Water Treatment (AWT) demonstration facility with novel brine management technology in Palmdale, California. The AWT demonstration facility is part of PWD’s Pure Water Antelope Valley (Pure Water AV) indirect potable reuse program, which will produce approximately 5 million gallons per day (MGD) of potable water using tertiary effluent from the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts’ Palmdale Water Reclamation Plant. Stantec is providing program management services for Pure Water AV. “Incorporating Capture6’s technology…
Walmart Opens First Market Fulfillment Center in Arkansas as the Retailer Doubles Down on Store Fulfillment Walmart opened its first high-tech Market Fulfillment Center in Arkansas at Store 100 located at 406 S Walton Blvd in Bentonville, underlining the retailer’s strategic move toward expanding the use of its stores as fulfillment centers to enhance the shopping experience for customers everywhere. The Market Fulfillment Center (MFC) is built within the store and is powered by a proprietary storage and retrieval system – named Alphabot. Walmart believes fulfillment through digitization and connecting its store and supply chain assets end to end will transform fulfillment. And…
Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), home to the top-ranked adult and pediatric hospitals in the Southeastern U.S., has announced a collaboration that aims to reduce the health system’s carbon footprint while determining a blueprint to guide industry efforts. The project is with the radiology department, where efforts will focus on measuring and addressing energy consumption of VUMC’s diagnostic imaging devices including MR, CT, ultrasound and X-ray. The two organizations plan to publish their findings with the aim of promoting knowledge exchange and enabling others in the industry to enhance their environmental…
Adidas announced it will begin selling some of the remaining inventory of adidas YEEZY products, with an initial release end of May 2023. A range of existing designs will be available exclusively through adidas.com/yeezy and the adidas CONFIRMED app. A significant amount will be donated to selected organizations working to combat discrimination and hate, including racism and antisemitism. These include but are not limited to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change. The release will mark the first time that products have been available to consumers since adidas terminated the YEEZY partnership in October…
Hyundai Motor Company’s recreated Pony Coupe Concept has made its world premiere — nearly 50 years after its original debut — in Lake Como, Italy. Originally unveiled at the 1974 Turin Motor Show, the Pony Coupe Concept is an important vehicle in the company’s history and design heritage. Hyundai Motor unveiled the rebuilt Pony Coupe Concept at the inaugural Hyundai Reunion, a heritage brand platform that reflects on Hyundai Motor’s past and its future direction. Among the representatives present at the event were Giorgetto Giugiaro and his son Fabrizio Giugiaro, long time designer himself, to signal the previously announced restoration,…
A team of nature conservation experts announced that with the help of Huawei Cloud and artificial intelligence, they have identified at least five jaguars – two males, one female and two cubs – in a nature reserve in Dzilam, Yucatan, in southeast Mexico. The Tech4Nature Mexico project, launched in the Dzilam de Bravo nature reserve last year, is a flagship project of a three-year program between Huawei and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It uses an integrated and continuous monitoring system analyzing images and sound data to identify and track jaguars and their preys. The project involves partners including…
Researchers have developed a solar-powered technology that converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be added directly to a car’s engine as drop-in fuel. “Shining sunlight on the artificial leaves and getting liquid fuels from carbon dioxide and water is an amazing bit of chemistry” -Motiar Rahaman The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert CO2, water and sunlight into multicarbon liquid fuels – ethanol and propanol – in a single step. These fuels have a high energy density and can be easily stored or transported. Unlike fossil fuels, these…