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Rowan Tree Day Nursery pupils enjoying celebrating Environment Day - Credit: Rowan Tree Day Nursery Rowan Tree Day Nursery in Welwyn Garden City is now ‘climate positive’, after saving more greenhouse gas emissions than it generates. Celebrating the achievement with themed activities to mark World Environment Day, children and staff at the day nursery - in Guessens Road - created their very own ‘role play’ recycling centre and discussed plastic pollution. Rowan Tree Day Nursery manage...

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Feel Good intends to be climate net zero by 2030 across direct and indirect carbon emissions Feel Good Drinks has become climate positive – in what the Nichols incubator brand claims is a first for the UK’s soft drinks category. The business’ achievement came by offsetting more than twice the 206 tonnes of carbon it produced in 2020. Working with sustainability certification provider Planet Mark, Feel Good used the likes of Gold Standard’s clean water programme and the CommuniTree refor...

Homeware retailer Dunelm has taken a 189,214 ft2 warehouse at Prologis’ 7 million ft2 DIRFT III development in the East Midlands. The retailer has taken a 10-year lease and is set to move in once construction completes in September this year. The move supports Dunelm’s focus on innovating and improving its customer proposition, as well as the growth in home delivery and click & collect operations as a result of the pandemic. Dunelm’s new building will also reflect the company’s ambiti...

Several well-known brands, including Burger King, Ribena, Lucozade and Visa, have marked Earth Day 2021 by announcing new climate targets such as net-zero ambitions. First held on 22 April 1970, Earth Day is an annual celebration  In this round-up article, edie briefly summarises all the new announcements in alphabetical order. A separate piece on new commitments and launches relating to other issues, including plastic, will follow shortly. All announcements are separate to the news on Wedn...

Palm Beach Illustrated Orlebar Brown Overhauls Sustainability The brand will partner with SeaTrees for a trio of Blue Carbon projects to establish mangrove and sea kelp forests to offset carbon emissions A still from Morgan Maassen’s short film about Orlebar Brown’s partnership with SeaTrees. Orlebar Brown, the men’s resort wear and Palm Beach staple, has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to sustainability–in 2018, the brand committed to a long-term “Measure, Reduce, Rebalance”...

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The agri-food system is responsible for approximately one-quarter of all global greenhouse gas emissions. In an effort to increase environmental transparency and mitigate carbon emissions, a small number of food and drink brands are incorporating carbon footprint labelling on-pack. In 2019, oat drink producer Oatly introduced carbon footprint data via a partnership with Carbon Cloud. In early 2020, meat alternative brand Quorn​ started introducing carbon footprint data, certified by the Carbo...

DP World announces warehouse spacing plan DP WORLD in the UK today announces that London Gateway’s Logistics Park will fast-track the delivery of a speculative 146,000 sq ft green warehouse facility before the end of 2021 to meet the rapidly growing demand for premium warehousing space in the South East of England. This follows the letting upon completion of LG231, a 230,000 sq ft warehouse facility, to P&O Ferrymasters last year. DP World, the leading global provider of smart logistic...

DP World has announced that it will speculatively develop a new 146,000 sq ft facility at its 10 million sq ft London Gateway scheme, which will achieve BREEAM ‘Outstanding’. Oliver Treneman, Park Development Director at DP World in the UK, said: “The new facility will be ready for occupancy in the last quarter of the year and will be one of the most sustainable warehouses yet built, with a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ classification, EPC Rating A and Planet Mark Accredited. We are using the ...