Facebook Pledge to Lower Emissions and Utilise 100% Renewable Energy

Facebook have stated their plans for their new sustainability plans in a post on their website: Today, we are committing to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 75% and powering our global operations with 100% renewable energy by the end of 2020. In a record-breaking year of corporate renewable energy purchases, Facebook is on track to be one of the largest corporate purchasers of renewable energy. Since our first purchase of wind power in 2013, Facebook has signed contracts for over 3 gigawatts of new solar and wind energy, that…

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Healthy Starts at Home: New Campaign Offers Millennial and Family-Focused Tips and Tools to Create and Maintain a Safe and Healthy Home

Getting and staying healthy starts with a healthy home. That is the focus of a new campaign from the Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE)—Healthy Starts at Home. Through October 2018 on www.HealthyStartsatHome.org, ACE will release creative tip sheets and tools that offer room-by-room guidance on how to maintain a healthy home, and the smartest ways to use, store, and dispose of common household products. “People use products to care for their homes every day. Despite this, many are unsure of how to use them properly to clean and to keep…

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Born Free USA Presents “A Celebration of Wildlife” Fundraising Event for U.S. Wildlife Conservation Efforts

Born Free USA, a global leader in animal welfare and wildlife conservation, is hosting a major fundraising event, “A Celebration of Wildlife,” on Thursday, September 27, from 6:30 – 9:00 PM at Joao – West Hollywood Bar at The Jeremy. The event will raise money to support Born Free USA’s Primate Sanctuary in south Texas, the largest primate sanctuary in the United States, and the organization’s ongoing campaigns to protect wildlife from the illegal wildlife trade, trophy hunting, captivity, the fur industry, and trapping and to defend the Endangered Species…

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PetSmart and PetSmart Charities are Celebrating the Most Successful National Adoption Weekend Ever, Thanks in Part to Social Sharing and #PicMe

PetSmart®, PetSmart Charities and nearly 4,000 adoption partners are celebrating a record-breaking National Adoption Weekend that saw 32,159 pets find their forever homes. This tally is the most pets adopted during any National Adoption Weekend in the in-store adoption program’s 24-year history and it seems the power of social media may have played a part in the event’s landmark success. Prior to its Sept. National Adoption Weekend, PetSmart Charities launched a new social media campaign centered around the hashtag #PicMe. The hashtag was intended to encourage people to snap a…

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WomenHeart launches awareness campaign for Hispanic Heritage Month

WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease today launched its inaugural Hispanic Heritage Month campaign, made possible by Burlington Stores. With nearly 48 million women living with or at risk for heart disease—almost 1 in 3 Hispanic women—the campaign will raise heart health awareness among Latinas and will run from Sept. 15 – Oct. 15. “As a woman heart disease patient, I fully know the importance of receiving the type of support and services that WomenHeart offers to women living with or at risk of heart disease” said…

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