Day: 28 August 2018

Levi Strauss & Co. Leads Industry With New Climate Action Strategy

Stuart Mitchell

Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) has announced a new climate action strategy, which sets aggressive targets for reducing carbon emissions across its owned-and-operated facilities and global supply chain by 2025. This includes using 100 percent renewable electricity in company-owned facilities. While LS&Co. has a strong track record of reducing carbon emissions in its own operations, the most significant climate impact—and the most difficult to tackle—lies within the apparel industry’s global supply chain. LS&Co.’s new climate action strategy addresses this part of the company’s carbon footprint. LS&Co.’s science-based targets, which are…

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UN Women statement on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Stuart Mitchell

Enclosed is the UN Women statement on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples : UN Women joins our sister UN agencies in today’s recognition of the vital importance of the world’s indigenous peoples. At a time when human mobility is on the increase, we recognize that together, they maintain 80 per cent of global biodiversity. All of humanity is indebted to their custodianship. Indeed, if we are to achieve Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15, to sustainably manage life on land, this vital contribution must be…

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Teenage girls use photography to help end the shame and stigma around periods in Nepal

Stuart Mitchell

Teenage girls in Nepal have been harnessing the power of photography to get their community talking about periods and help end the silence, shame and stigma around menstruation. International charity WaterAid has been working with the group from Kavre, Nepal, to teach them how to manage their periods hygienically as well as photography skills, as many had never even picked up cameras before. They have now produced a series of touching images showing how traditional period taboos affect their lives. Their powerful gallery reveals how the belief that menstruation causes women…

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Terry Bradshaw Encourages Patients to “Take the Pledge to Live Well” in New PSA about Rheumatic Disease

Stuart Mitchell

This September, Sports Broadcaster Terry Bradshaw is teaming up once again with the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) to share important information about rheumatic diseases in a new public service announcement (PSA) airing nationwide this fall. Bradshaw shares tips in the PSA for managing rheumatic disease and encourages fellow rheumatic disease patients to take the ACR’s pledge to live well with their disease. Bradshaw is the official spokesperson for September’s Rheumatic Disease Awareness Month, an annual awareness event sponsored by the ACR and its public awareness campaign, Simple Tasks™. “Flare-ups…

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Bar-S Helps Provide One Million Meals to Hungry Children via Its Partnership with No Kid Hungry

Stuart Mitchell

Thanks to a generous donation by Bar-S, No Kid Hungry is able to provide one million more meals to hungry children. This donation by the company through its “Fighting Childhood Hunger” campaign, first announced in September 2017, will help provide meals to children nationwide during the summer – often the hungriest time of the year for many children. “Summer – what should be a time of fun and relaxation for all children – is a challenging period for many kids. In fact, only 15% of kids who qualify for free…

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