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Powered by renewables, IKEA Greenwich offers upcycling workshops, electric van deliveries and a rooftop garden - but is it the future of retail?

Swedish retail giant's new 32,000sqm store places big focus on circular economy, green transport, sustainable food, and community events

Around 600 of company's hotels around the world now grow their own produce on site for use in its restaurants and bars as part of food waste drive

New ECO-POWR range includes Verde, a treadmill which generates electricity that can be fed into the grid to cut down on gyms' energy costs

Auckland, Bratislava, Gothenburg and Sydney also score highly in TravelBird's Green Cities Index 2018, which seeks to highlight the best urban holiday destinations for green-minded travellers

Plastic straws to be banned at Royal residences, with internal caterers soon only allowed to use China plates, glasses, recyclable paper cups and compostable or biodegradable packaging

Many companies are taking action to improve energy efficiency, but far fewer are responding to new technologies such as battery storage, microgrids or CHP, new poll finds

Hotel group pledges to replace around 750,000 plastic straws used annually with paper-based straws in bid to reduce plastic waste

In drive to rid fridges and other products of harmful greenhouse gases, retailers must not lose focus on delivering energy efficiency, engineering firm Emerson advises

Universal Music UK becomes latest high profile firm to ink deal with Ecotricity to source 100 per cent renewable power, as Apple signs fresh solar deal