Year: 2019

New York’s Three Village Central School District’s Expanded Partnership with Discovery Education Aims to Support Science and STEM Education

Stuart Mitchell

 New York’s Three Village Central School District (Three Village) has announced an expansion of their ongoing collaboration with Discovery Education. In the latest phase of this multiyear partnership, elementary school teachers across the district will integrate Discovery Education’ dynamic digital science curriculum and engaging digital STEM resources into teaching and learning as part of an ongoing effort to create even more captivating classroom experiences. Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. Located on the North Shore of New…

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Actor Tobias Menzies launches WaterAid campaign in new role as ambassador for the charity

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid have announced that actor Tobias Menzies (The Crown, Outlander, and Game of Thrones) has become an ambassador for the international charity.  The announcement comes ahead of the launch of the third season of The Crown, which will be available on Netflix from 17 November. Tobias will be seen as Prince Philip alongside Olivia Colman who plays Queen Elizabeth II. Tobias’s first official duty in his new role is to launch WaterAid’s winter campaign, Access Denied, which aims to raise £2 million to help get clean water and decent sanitation…

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Coca Cola is misleading the public over single-use plastic bottles, says environmental campaigners in ASA complaint

Stuart Mitchell

Coca Cola is attempting to mislead the public about the environmental impact of its plastic bottles by suggesting they are not ‘single-use’ say plastic campaigning organisation, City to Sea in a complaint submitted this week to the Advertising Standards Agency ASA. The company’s recent advertising campaign claims “single-use plastic bottles are only single-use if they are thrown away”, with ads appearing in newspapers and tube stations. City to Sea have as a result, submitted a formal complaint to the (ASA) arguing that Coca-Cola misrepresents a commonly held definition of the word ‘single-use,’…

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The Co-operative Bank urges its customers to “Write for Rights” and support young activists in partnership with Amnesty International

Stuart Mitchell

The Co-operative Bank is urging its customers to take part in Amnesty International’s “Write for Rights” human rights campaign this December. The Bank is calling for customers, colleagues and members of the public to join together in a ‘Day of Action’ and write letters in support of young human rights activists around the world. Amnesty International’s global “Write for Rights” project is the world’s largest letter writing campaign, and this year encourages people to write letters in support of 12 young people faced with human rights abuses, or bravely standing…

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Dagoma and TBWA\Paris launch Operation Toy Rescue

Stuart Mitchell

Everybody loves toys. For Christmas, there’ll be several billion toys purchased. But behind the toys hides an ecological disaster. Every year, in France alone more than 40 million toys are thrown away. Because in most cases, they can’t be repaired. For one single reason: spare parts don’t exist. To make toys repairable, Dagoma, the European leader in 3D printing, and TBWA\Paris are launching Operation Toy Rescue. Spare parts for toys that didn’t exist till now have been recreated as 3D printable files. The concept is simple: After listing the most commonly lost…

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