Day: 28 August 2019

Surfrider LA Helps Create “How To” Videos for Installing Ocean Friendly Gardens

Stuart Mitchell

The Los Angeles Surfrider Chapter, Surfrider LA, has a fantastic Ocean Friendly Gardens Program that transforms water-intensive yards throughout the Mediterranean climate of LA to climate-appropriate natural landscapes. In addition to reduced water use, these gardens create beautiful landscapes that collect stormwater, sequester carbon, reduce the need for fertilizers and pesticides, and create healthy habitat for local wildlife (including critical pollinators!). The success of the LA OFG Program is due in part to its dedicated volunteers and successful partnerships with local gardening groups, like SELVA EcoGardens. Together Surfrider LA and…

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Red Cross Experts Push New Land Rover Defender Prototype To The Limit In Desert Testing To Celebrate Renewal Of 65-Year Partnership

Stuart Mitchell

The new Land Rover Defender has been put through its paces under the watchful eye of all-terrain experts from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in the latest stage of its global testing programme. The prototype vehicle visited the IFRC global fleet base in Dubai, ahead of its public debut later this year. Land Rover engineers demonstrated the vehicle’s breadth of capability to their IFRC counterparts both on and off road, before the IFRC fleet experts took to the wheel to test the vehicle for…

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New Nisa initiative encourages colleagues to Make A Difference

Stuart Mitchell

Nisa and its Making a Difference Locally charity are this month launching a new initiative encouraging colleagues to volunteer for a good cause in the local community. The ‘A Day to Make a Difference’ scheme will offer Nisa employees the opportunity to spend either a full or half day volunteering with a local good cause, allowing them to develop new skills and gain volunteering experience, whilst helping charities and other good causes in the area. This year, colleagues will have the opportunity to volunteer at one of three local causes:…

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Exciting opportunity for community led organisations to #ShiftthePower

Stuart Mitchell

Corra Foundation is delighted to announce the launch of #ShiftthePower Scotland Comic Relief Programme. This exciting new programme is for community led grassroots organisations and charities that are passionate about early years, empowering women and girls, supporting people affected by homelessness, or tackling stigma around mental health. #ShiftthePower aims to support groups with an income of £250,000 or less to create positive change. Groups can access grants of between £1,000 and £8,000. Real life experience is at the heart of the programme, which is reaching out to find and fund…

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Amnesty International to divest from fossil fuel companies

Stuart Mitchell

Amnesty International will divest from fossil fuel companies in acknowledgement that investment in an industry whose products are the primary source of the climate crisis is at odds with the organisation’s mission of protecting and championing human rights. The decision to divest was taken at Amnesty’s Global Assembly, attended by delegates from around the world. The assembly also voted to take further steps to reduce the organisation’s climate impact, including by aiming to be totally carbon neutral by 2035, slash air travel by a third and move towards holding more virtual…

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