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RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flashfood, the surplus grocery platform trusted by North America’s leading grocery retailers, is now available at all 100+ Kroger stores in the Mid-Atlantic Division. Flashfood’s platform is addressing surplus food waste in Kroger stores while making fresh, affordable groceries accessible to more shoppers across the southeast. Since launching in 16 Richmond-area Kroger stores last summer, Flashfood has helped Kroger shoppers save nearly $700,000 on fresh grocerie...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new partnership between Zyxel Communications and Openreach is helping to cut plastic and packaging waste from the UK’s Full Fibre rollout - by deploying re-cycled ‘modems’ to connect customers. Zyxel is deploying a range of new Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) - the wall-mounted box of electronics that converts optical signals into electrical ones used by household devices - with re-engineered casings made from 95 per cent recycled plastic.1 Openreach engineers have a...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ahead of the 2026 WNBA season and in celebration of their partnership with the New York Liberty, Ant International hosted a U.S. event where Leiming Chen, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of Ant International, laid out the vision for the intersection of technology and sports to expand the horizon of community action. Ant International’s Alipay+ entered into a multi-year partnership with the New York Liberty in 2025, becoming the team’s offic...

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GreenSTEM Technology Corp is proud to introduce BioProspector™ Fertilizer (BioPro), an exciting new product that uses biosafe fungi to improve plant tolerance to abiotic stress such as drought, extreme temperatures, salinity or nutrient deficiencies, such as in – but not exclusive to – mine sites. The product is ready for field testing, and GreenSTEM is looking for participants in field trials. Co-founder Susan Kaminskyj says, “One of our major motivati...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Nest Campus, the world's largest gathering of leaders defining and accelerating the global resilience economy, and HumanX, the premier conference for AI decision-makers and industry leaders, today announced a strategic partnership to launch NestX — the AI center of Climate Week NYC. NestX will debut during The Nest Campus's annual event, September 22–24, 2026, as a dedicated platform at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the resilience economy. I...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--James Hardie Building Products Inc. (James Hardie), the leader in exterior home and outdoor living solutions, today announced its commitment to San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity (SGV Habitat) to support their rebuilding efforts for the first 25 households impacted by last year’s devastating Eaton fire in Altadena, California. This effort builds on the company’s ongoing partnership with Habitat for Humanity International, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cool Effect, a Bay Area-based nonprofit that supports high-integrity carbon emission reduction and removal projects around the globe, today announced that Proyecto Mirador has installed 400,000 clean cookstoves in homes across Honduras and Guatemala, marking a major milestone for one of Latin America’s largest clean cooking initiatives. The U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit clean cookstove project began in 2004 as a response to widespread health and environmental harms fr...

PICO RIVERA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bay Cities, a leading designer and manufacturer of retail packaging and in-store displays, today announced a strategic partnership with Formless Beauty, the eco-conscious cosmetics brand founded by Jenny McCarthy, to support the brand's successful launch into Sprouts Farmers Market. Bay Cities provided full-service packaging and display solutions, from structural design and engineering to production, packout, and distribution, helping Formless Beauty show u...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nodal Exchange sets new trading volume records in Q1 2026...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LP Building Solutions (LP), a leading manufacturer of high-performance building products, today announced it was named Green Builder Media’s 2026 Sustainable Brand Leader in the Structural category. Additionally, LP® SmartSide® Trim & Siding and LP BurnGuard™ FRT OSB were also named 2026 Sustainable Product of the Year recipients. This award marks LP’s third consecutive year receiving top honors in Green Builder Media’s Brand Index and its fourth year bein...