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The University of Michigan opened an $8 million electric vehicle battery lab funded in part by Ford and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. The lab will enable Ford and other automakers to research and test new battery technologies.

An $8 million battery lab opened yesterday at the University of Michigan that will help Ford develop batteries that are smaller, lighter and less expensive to produce.

Guests at Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas' properties can further their education in sustainability and local ecosystems through a new program called Earth Lab. Workshops and videos will further the company's noted commitment to wellness and environmental care.

World Resources Institute launched the Better Buying Lab, a joint initiative with Google, Hilton Worldwide, and others to develop behavior change strategies that foster increased consumption of sustainable foods.

Amsterdam-based association Zero Waste Europe is developing a project to empower community groups across Europe to challenge wasteful products and facilitate stakeholder collaboration on their redesign. 'The People's Design Lab' is expected to launch in June, but with only one week left in its campaign, Zero Waste Europe has raised just over €4,500 of its €8,000 goal.

Now Google, the longtime business leader, is taking lessons from behavioral economics and becoming a sustainability leader. For almost a year, the company has been nudging its employees to eat less meat, and it's working. Google has teamed up with the Better Buying Lab, a division of the World Resources Institute, which uses the nudge theory to "enable consumers to buy and consume more sustainable foods."

Taking plastics recycling to a whole new level, Procter & Gamble (P&G) has pioneered a new technology that restores used polypropylene plastic (PP) to 'virgin-like' quality. Developed in P&G labs, the patented technology is being licensed to PureCycle to deploy in a new recycling plant in Lawrence County, Ohio and will allow consumers to purchase more products made from recycled plastic.