Day: 13 September 2019

City of Helsinki launches local sustainability programme in response to citizen concern about climate change

Stuart Mitchell

The Think Sustainably service empowers residents and visitors to make informed daily choices, rating the Finnish capital’s restaurants, attractions, shops and accommodation against bespoke sustainability criteria. According to a survey1 carried out by the City of Helsinki in 2018, two thirds of residents identified the climate crisis as their major concern when thinking about the future of the city. In response, Helsinki has launched Think Sustainably, the world’s first online service that enables making sustainable choices as easy as using an app. Think Sustainably provides residents, visitors and business owners…

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Kastner & Partners’ Brandon Rochon and Google’s Robert Wong Win 2019 One Club | ADCOLOR Creative Awards

Stuart Mitchell

Brandon Rochon, managing CCO at Kastner & Partners, and Robert Wong, VP, Google and co-founder of Google Creative Lab, are recipients of this year’s prestigious One Club | ADCOLOR Creative Awards.  The honors were presented last night at the 13th Annual ADCOLOR Awards ceremony, taking place during the 2019 ADCOLOR Conference in Los Angeles. The One Club | ADCOLOR Creative Award recognizes creative professionals of multicultural background who have demonstrated noteworthy talent and achievement within the media, creative, digital and traditional advertising disciplines.  The honor is presented jointly by ADCOLOR,…

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First cycle lane to use ‘plastic’ surface will save a million bags from landfill

Stuart Mitchell

Thames Water has re-opened a London cycle route closed for almost a decade while also managing to prevent more than a million plastic bags going to landfill. Working with partner Balfour Beatty, the UK’s largest water company has spent the last 18 months upgrading the Victorian sewers running through the Waterworks Bridge in Stratford. Once this vital work to keep the capital’s sewage network flowing was complete, efforts focused on re-surfacing the route which runs over the bridge and has been shut since work started on regenerating the area for…

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Belu honoured with Queen’s Award for innovation in partnership with WaterAid

Stuart Mitchell

Her Majesty the Queen has awarded Belu Water with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation. This prestigious award recognises outstanding business achievement by UK organisations, and Belu has been honoured for its pioneering Belu Filter Initiative, which serves a dual purpose of empowering restaurants and hotels to make a real difference to people’s lives whilst reducing their impact on the environment. The simple yet effective initiative is the first of its kind in this country, providing a free filtration system to restaurants or hotels who, in return, agree to raise…

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Always® Joins Forces With Sophia Bush and Other Voices for Latest Efforts to Help #EndPeriodPoverty And Keep Girls in School in the U.S.

Stuart Mitchell

School supplies are important for every student, but period products are often overlooked as a vital necessity to ensure girls are able to stay in class and focused on their education. Always, the leader in global menstrual care, wants to change that. This September, Always continues their #EndPeriodPoverty efforts launched in 2018 to raise awareness and take action to help keep girls in school. When people learn that nearly 1 in 5 girls in the U.S. have missed school due to lack of period products, many are shocked and 89%…

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