Month: March 2019

Chinese Experts Urge Thais to Celebrate Lunar New Year with No Shark Fin

Stuart Mitchell

Building on the momentum of the “Celebrate with #NoSharkFin” (#ฉลองไม่ฉลาม) campaign, WildAid released a video message featuring a Thai-Chinese cultural expert and a traditional medicine practitioner urging the public not to consume shark fin during Lunar New Year celebrations. While not a national holiday, the Lunar New Year is widely celebrated in Thailand and is a peak time for shark fin consumption in a country that plays a significant role in the global shark fin trade. “Shark fin is not mentioned in Chinese literature as auspicious (มงคล) even once,” said…

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National Geographic, P&G and Global Citizen Announce Activate, a Multiplatform Storytelling Partnership and Documentary Series to Drive Action Around Global Challenges Connected to Extreme Poverty

Stuart Mitchell

National Geographic and Procter & Gamble have announced ACTIVATE, a new multiplatform storytelling partnership and six-part documentary series co-produced by Global Citizen and RadicalMedia. Premiering globally fall 2019 on National Geographic in 172 countries and 43 languages, the ACTIVATE series — bolstered by custom content distributed across National Geographic’s unrivaled social, digital, linear and print channels — will focus on extreme poverty, inequality and sustainability issues to mobilize global citizens to drive meaningful and lasting change. Each episode delves into a different issue connected to the root causes of extreme…

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WePresent Launches Initiative to Help Creatives Reach Their Creative Potential

Stuart Mitchell

WeTransfer launched a new digital experience on its editorial platform WePresent, specially designed to help creatives realize their creative potential. In partnership with Holley M. Murchison, author of the book Tell Me About Yourself and host of the podcast with the same name, WePresent has turned her 6-step Tell Me About Yourself program into a digital experience featuring micro-podcasts and specially-commissioned animations by Yukai Du. The Tell Me About Yourself (TMAY) method was created for dynamic human beings constantly redefining themselves. The 6-step method helps individuals accurately and artfully define…

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New Ceres report highlights what investors want and expect from companies on sustainability

Stuart Mitchell

A new report released by the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres provides a deeper look into investors’ evolving expectations on how companies should communicate and tackle the challenges and opportunities presented by the world’s greatest sustainability challenges, including climate change, water scarcity and human rights risks. Change the Conversation: Redefining how Companies Engage Investors on Sustainability, provides insight on what investors want to know, how they want to see it and who they want to hear from, so that companies can provide the information that investors need to fully understand and…

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New Plant-Based Baby Brand Hello Bello™ Launched by Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard

Stuart Mitchell

Hello Bello™, a new collection of expertly formulated, plant-derived baby necessities, launches today exclusively at Walmart stores nationwide, on Walmart.com and HelloBello.com. Founded by parents Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, along with Sean Kane (co-CEO), Jay McGraw (co-CEO) and Jennifer Pullen (CFO & COO), the complete line of products is designed to give every parent access to high-quality, better-priced everyday essentials that are better for babies, budgets and the planet. “As a mom of two, I know how beautifully messy parenthood can be, and that’s why we created Hello Bello…

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