500,000 Marriott employees have now been trained to watch for sex traffickers
Already offered in 17 languages, the same training will one day reach 700,000 people internationally, everyone who works within the Marriott universe.
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Adidas to produce 11 million shoes made from recycled plastic in 2019
Adidas have collaborated with Parley for the Oceans, a company that intercepts plastic from beaches before it can reach the oceans. This plastic is then upcycled and made into a yarn becoming a key component of the upper material of Adidas footwear.
Scientists invent new carbon capture technology that generates electricity by sucking up CO2
Researchers in South Korea and Georgia say they’ve devised a system that captures atmospheric carbon in water and uses the reaction to generate electricity and hydrogen.
Scientists found a new way to make fusion reactors more efficient
For a technology that stands to revolutionize how we generate clean energy, nuclear fusion is remarkably leaky, making the process much less efficient. But new research from the U.S. Department of Energy may have found a way to keep those particles where they belong.
U.S. coal retirements in 2019 to hit at least 6 gigawatts
The U.S. Energy Information Administration also believes that around 13.7 GW of coal was retired in 2018, the second-highest amount of coal capacity retired in a year.
2018 Congressional Farm Bill effectively legalizes hemp in the U.S.
Promoters have long extolled the virtue of the grassy weed as one of the cheapest and most important crops for solving the world’s problems around sustainability and health with it’s alleged ability to treat numerous symptoms and diseases.
New Jersey to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
The new plan would raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour on July 1, $11 an hour in 2020, $12 an hour in 2021, $13 in 2022, $14 in 2023 and $15 in 2024.
Microsoft pledges $500 million for affordable housing in Seattle area
Microsoft’s money represents the most ambitious effort by a tech company to directly address the inequality that has spread in areas where the industry is concentrated. It will fund construction for homes affordable not only to the company’s own non-tech workers, but also for teachers, firefighters, and other middle- and low-income residents.
U.S. wind power to exceed hydropower in 2019 for first time ever
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects wind energy capacity to increase from 96 GW at the end of 2018 to 107 GW by the end of 2019, and 114 GW by the end of 2020.
USC researchers find new culprit and potential treatment target for Alzheimer’s
Brain changes associated with leaky capillaries suggest new, potential drug targets as well as a way to diagnose the disease sooner.