Walmart Launches Pollinator Garden Pilot in Three States

Walmart has planted 21 pollinator gardens at retail locations throughout Oregon, Washington and North Carolina. The gardens serve a dual purpose of adding to the beautification of the outdoor grounds at designated store properties and seeking to increase pollinators including bees and butterflies, which have suffered population declines in recent decades. To kick off this pilot project, the first garden was planted in April 2019 at a Walmart retail location in Garner, North Carolina. A garden has also been planted at Walmart’s global corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. The remaining…

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The Safety Cake : the first cake that can save lives

Do we care more about food than about our friends while driving? A survey shows that 87% of Belgian drivers carrying food on the passenger seat drive more carefully. An phenomenon that is interesting to look at. That’s what NGO Responsible Young Drivers and Renault Belux have done, whose collaboration has made possible to create the “Safety Cake”. A cake specially designed to confront motorists with their behaviour and encourage them to drive more carefully. An awareness campaign that aims to approach road safety in a different way and aims…

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We Are Undefeatable: a major new campaign to support people with long-term health conditions to be active

An inspiring new campaign – We Are Undefeatable – is being launched to support the one in four (15 million) people in England who live with one or more long-term health conditions, such as diabetes, cancer, arthritis and Parkinson’s. By recognising the unique barriers people with health conditions face, the campaign aims to help people build physical activity into their lives, by hearing from others who have become more active through the ups and downs of living with their condition. Individuals living with a long-term health condition are twice as likely to…

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Supermarket special offers still misleading customers with poor deals, says Which?

Supermarkets appear to be disregarding government pricing guidelines by continuing to offer misleading discounts and special offers, according to research from Which?. Which? crunched the numbers on more than 450 products on offer online at major UK supermarkets and found multibuys that actually cost you more despite the alleged offer, dubious discounts that allude to a price that isn’t the most recent and not-so-special offers in which items are sold at their ‘special’ price for the majority of the year. Among the dodgy deals that the consumer champion found, Iceland…

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Hyundai Hope On Wheels To Award $13.2 Million New Pediatric Cancer Grants During Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Hyundai Hope On Wheels® (HHOW), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, supported by Hyundai Motor America and its U.S. dealers, continues its fight against pediatric cancer and announces plans for Childhood Cancer Awareness month. For September, the non-profit organization has selected 52 new grant winners to receive a combined $13.2 million for pediatric cancer research. In addition to grants announced earlier this year, this brings the Hyundai Hope On Wheels donations to pediatric cancer research to just over $160 million in the United States, since 1998.  The September campaign theme for the 10th year…

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