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An in-depth look into new energy management solutions. Submit energy management-related news and press releases to Editor-in-Chief Marina Mayer at mayerm@bnpmedia.com.
There are many viable options for businesses to go solar. Explore ideas of how a mix of these approaches, combined with energy efficiency and other measures, can help make your business more renewably powered.
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The app, produced by Flashfood, Canada, allows customers to purchase close-dated fresh food items, including meat, produce, seafood, deli and bakery products at up to 50% off.
Meijer, Grand Rapids, Mich., is testing an app at a handful of its Metro Detroit supercenters that allows customers to purchase food nearing its best-buy date at a reduced price.
Wageningen University & Research (WUR), The Netherlands, received more than €8 million from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and participating bodies for two major research programs—one involving tower garden systems using LEDs and the other focusing on improvements in the welfare of pigs and chickens.
Optimum usage of vertical space and energy utilization, ease in monitoring and harvesting of crops and limited availability of arable land are driving growth in the global vertical farming market.
The global vertical farming market generated $2.23 billion in 2018, and is estimated to generate $12.77 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 24.6% from 2019 to 2026, according to a report by Allied Market Research, Portland, Ore.
The research found that sustainability-marketed products delivered 50.1% of market growth from 2013-2018 while representing 16.6% of the CPG market in dollar sales in 2018.
NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB), New York, and IRI, Chicago, launched a new Sustainable Market Share Index, an in-depth analysis of consumer purchases of products marketed for their sustainable attributes.
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Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Mass., and more than 1,700 independent scientists penned the 1992 “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,” which called on humankind to curtail environmental destruction and cautioned that “a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided.”
Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Canada, announced a step forward on its sustainability journey, as it becomes what is said to be the first major food company in the world to be carbon neutral.
Join more than 500 food and agricultural supply chain leaders and experts at the 2019 Sustainable Agriculture Summit, Accelerating Progress: A Roadmap for Sustainable Agriculture, Nov. 20-21 in Indianapolis.
About the workshop: A one-week intensive short course on industrial refrigeration as practiced in food freezing, refrigeration and
in other low temperature applications. A systematic study is made of the technical back-ground, the practice and the latest developments in low temperature refrigeration. This workshop is offered in February. Started in 1982, this is the 53nd offering of the workshop.
Attendees of the IIAR Natural Refrigeration Conference & Heavy Equipment Expo come from all facets of the industry including design engineers, contractors, end users, academics, scientists, trainers, and government agencies.
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