Department store says milestone has been achieved nine months ahead of target  Shoppers with Selfridges bags. The department store has announced that the 300 products in its Selfridges Selection range are free of palm oil. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images Selfridges has become the first major UK retailer to make its own-brand foods completely free of palm...Read More

California may be ground zero for car culture in the US, and Los Angeles may be the epicenter of car culture in the Golden State. It’s been that way since the end of World War II, actually. In fact, the era of easy personal mobility has engulfed the city and the surrounding area in endless...Read More

Starting a two-day visit to Dominica, World Bank Director for the Caribbean Tahseen Sayed signed today with Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit a US$27 million project to support the construction of a 7 MW small geothermal power plant in the Commonwealth of Dominica, which aims to increase the share of renewables, diversify the country’s energy matrix,...Read More