This signal was originally written on 20 Sep 2016. At the 2016 UN General Assembly, world leaders launched an unprecedented effort to roll out universal social protection in countries all around…

Perpetual Guardian, a New Zealand firm managing trusts, wills and estates, is considering introducing a 32-hour week following a successful experiment. As part of the experiment, workers were allowed to…

In July 2020, over 1100 companies stopped advertising on Facebook in response to the civil rights campaign Stop Hate for Profit, which called on the social media giant to take more action to stop hate speech on its platforms.

In a letter described as “unparalleled” by a trade union, eight major retailers have pledged to pay more for clothes following a protest by factory workers in Cambodia against low…

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A very interesting article about Timberland and how they are supporting cotton farmers in Haiti.   Timberland Steps In to Help Reintroduce Cotton Farming in Haiti Cotton is back in…

Ivory Coast has teamed up with the US Trade and Development Agency in its plans to build the first biomass power station in the world to be fuelled by waste…

Britain has successfully gone for 76 hours without generating any electricity from coal, a new record which comes just days after the last record of 55 hours was set. The…

On Tuesday May 10th, Britain’s coal power plants were completely silent. Between midnight and 4am, not a single watt of British electricity came from coal. This hasn’t happened in 130…

Isla Urbana, an interdisciplinary group of designers, urbanists, engineers, anthropologists, educators and artists, aims to build a water-responsible culture in communities across Mexico by integrating education and community empowerment with the installation of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems.

In a push for greater inclusivity and for creating awareness in the beauty industry, Unilever is doing away with the word “normal” in their marketing and advertising campaigns and also…

#driverless + #sharingeconomy = ? “Users of ride-hailing firm Grab will be able to book driverless cars from Friday as it partners with a start-up testing the technology in Singapore,…

Reports: BT to phase out pure fossil fuel vehicles from its fleet Telecommunications giant looks to move majority of its 30,000-strong fleet to electric of hybrid vehicles by 2030 BT…

An alternative voting mechanism aims to capture how strongly members of the public feel about a particular policy or topic, beyond simple approval or rejection. In ‘Quadratic Voting’, voters are…

BBC News | UK | ‘Number of carers set to double’ A new study is warning that the UK is sitting on a demographic “time bomb” with the number of…

Now public what has been cooking for over a year… “Sainsbury’s, Unilever, Barclays, Standard Chartered, and BNP Paribas are to launch a new pilot project to explore the potential of blockchain…

Norway Becomes World’s First Country To Commit To A Zero Deforestation Policy Is there any doubt that trees are vital to our existence? They are the mother of all mothers…

Dubai’s government’s goal is to have all its documents secured by 2020 on a blockchain. This ambition sets a precedent for the institutional use of emerging digital applications of blockchain,…

How can we replenish soil nutrients lost through years of intensive agriculture? The industrial approach of chemical fertilizer application does not address the underlying problem of a weak soil ecosystem…

As part of zero-carbon plans, hydrogen passenger trains will start running on a regional line between Buxtehude, outside Hamburg, and the beach town of Cuxhaven.

Buying good quality meat can be very expensive. But ‘meat shares’ –  clubbing together to buy a whole cow or sheep directly from the farmer – can be a cost…