Day: 11 July 2019

Children stage global intervention to protect Danish kids from getting sunburned

Stuart Mitchell

The school summer holidays are around the corner for most families. Good news, except for the fact that in Denmark a terrifying four out of ten children get sunburned while they’re on holiday abroad. To raise awareness, and to change behaviour in the sun, The Danish Cancer Society, the Danish philanthropic foundation TrygFonden and creative agency &Co have launched a new campaign to ‘Help a Small Dane.’ Denmark has one of the highest rates of melanoma in the world, and almost one Dane dies from melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer…

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Shortlist Announced For World’s Top Photography Prize

Stuart Mitchell

The shortlist of twelve photographers selected for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet, the global award in photography and sustainability, was announced on Thursday 4 July 2019, at a presentation at the opening of Les Rencontres d’Arles International Photography Festival. The shortlisted photographers are: Shahidul Alam, born 1955 Bangladesh, based in Dhaka Joana Choumali, born 1974 Côte d’Ivoire, based in Abidjan Margaret Courtney-Clarke, born 1949 Namibia, based in Swakopmund Rena Effendi, born 1977 Baku, based in Istanbul Lucas Foglia, born 1983 USA, based in San Francisco Janelle Lynch, born…

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Amazon launches campaign with PinkNews to boost inclusive education in schools

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon has launched a campaign in partnership with global publisher PinkNews to boost inclusion in schools by celebrating the importance of teaching LGBT+ diversity through literacy. The campaign launched on Thursday, July 4 with the roll out of Amazon’s LGBT+ Reading Roadshow, the UK’s first ever UK-wide LGBT+ reading programme. Designed for secondary schools, the roadshow combines inclusivity workshops with the provision of free books and PinkNews merchandise for schools around the UK. This element of the programme is fronted by the campaigner and musician Will Young and is presented…

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The Rainforest Alliance Announces Winners of the International Ag-Tech Developer Challenge

Stuart Mitchell

The Rainforest Alliance announced on July 3, 2019 the two winners of the first-ever international Ag-Tech Developer Challenge. Fifty organizations took part in the challenge submitting innovative remote-sensing data products to bolster digital work and generate data insights that benefit the cocoa farmers the Alliance works with on a global scale. The first-place winner is the Indian company CropIn which receives an investment of €100,000 to further develop its future-ready farming solution CocoaSense. This AI and Satellite Imaging powered solution will make the current digital farm development plans for cocoa…

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Jaguar Land Rover Accelerates Electrification

Stuart Mitchell

Jaguar Land Rover has revealed plans to manufacture a range of new electrified vehicles at its manufacturing plant in Castle Bromwich, UK. The announcement is the next significant step in delivering on the company’s commitment to offer customers electrified options for all new Jaguar and Land Rover models from 2020. The future of mobility is electric and, as a visionary British company, we are committed to making our next generation of zero-emission vehicles in the UK. We are co-locating our electric vehicle manufacture, Electronic Drive Units and battery assembly to…

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