Month: March 2019

Belu generates £1 million in one year for WaterAid to bring clean water around the world

Stuart Mitchell

Eight years into their unique partnership, pioneering social enterprise and ethical water company Belu has reached its goal to give WaterAid £1 million in a year, helping transform hundreds of thousands of lives with clean water. By giving 100% of their profits to WaterAid’s work, Belu sets an important example of how charities and businesses with shared values can work together to create social change and transform lives across the world. The success of the partnership lies in their shared vision to bring clean water, decent sanitation and good hygiene…

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Ikea, in collaboration with Milbat and Access Israel organizations, launch: ThisAbles

Stuart Mitchell

Ikea Israel has launched the ThisAblesproject, this was established in collaboration with Milbat and Access Israel with the goal of developing and promoting well-designed, efficient and convenient design solutions for furniture and household utensils for people with disabilities. The venture brought together three organizations in order tofind and advance solutions that will offer anappropriate and dignified response to the household needs of quite a large population in Israel. Solutions include furniture that is customized to these needs, and thedevelopment of products that will help people with disabilities to use furniture…

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Sarah Ferguson Sets New World Record in “Swim Against Plastic,” Becomes 1st Person to Swim Around Easter Island

Stuart Mitchell

Plastic Oceans International and Breathe Conservation, two global nonprofit organizations dedicated to solving the plastic pollution problem, announced that South African endurance swimmer, Sarah Ferguson, set a new world record—becoming the first person to swim around the entire perimeter of Easter Island—as part of Swim Against Plastic, a global campaign to help end plastic pollution organized by the organizations. Sarah achieved the world-record swim around Easter Island on Saturday, March 16 at 3:15 a.m. EASST (UTC/GMT -5). She swam 39.46 miles (63.5 kilometers) continuously over a duration of 19 hours…

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Millions of Volunteers will Transform Public Spaces into Beautiful Places during the Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup

Stuart Mitchell

It’s the first day of spring, which means it’s time to kick off the annual Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup®, the nation’s largest community improvement program. Through this far-reaching effort, which takes place from March 20 through June 20, national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful and its network of more than 600 community-based affiliates and partner organizations host cleanups, green-ups and fix-ups in more than 20,000 communities across the country, engaging more than 1.5 million volunteers and participants. Keep America Beautiful, with the support of its affiliates and their volunteers, social…

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Shell buys virtual power plant firm Limejump

Stuart Mitchell

Shell has agreed to acquire Limejump Ltd, a UK based energy technology company.  With this deal Limejump’s technology and management team will enable both companies to continue to take steps to support the UK energy system’s transition to a lower carbon future.  Upon completion Limejump will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell. Erik Nygard, CEO of Limejump, said “This is an exciting moment – we are in the middle of a revolution towards a future where many electricity networks around the world are powered by renewable electricity. Shell will…

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