Month: September 2020

Cheerios Donates $1.3 Million To No Kid Hungry, Partners With Jerry Harris To Rally America’s Support To End Childhood Hunger

Stuart Mitchell

One in four kids in the U.S. could face hunger this year because of the coronavirus. To provide immediate support to these children, Cheerios donated $1.3 million to No Kid Hungry, a national campaign focused on ending childhood hunger in America, and is now continuing its mission to inspire acts of good with the help of motivational personality and cheer all-star, Jerry Harris, who personally struggled with food insecurity as a child. Starting today, Harris is kicking off a content series in partnership with Cheerios on his Instagram profile, @jerryharris, that will spread…

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Duke Energy Employees Choose $1 Million in Grants for Social Justice

Stuart Mitchell

Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas asked its employees to choose the recipients of more than $1 million in grants to advance social justice and racial equity. The money will be split between 80 nonprofits in the seven states the companies serve. This is the first time that employees selected recipients – and the first time the Willa Carson Health and Wellness Center received a Duke Energy grant. Young, a Duke Energy billing supervisor at the Bayside Call Center, grew up in the North Greenwood neighborhood where the center is located.…

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Dow’s expertise enables recyclable polyolefin-based fabric decorations for Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

Stuart Mitchell

reating a unique look and feel for any major sporting event – especially the Olympic Games – typically calls for signage and banners, to customize the experience and build the event atmosphere for athletes and fans alike. The Olympic Movement’s Official Chemistry Company Dow is working with Japanese company Toppan Printing to give such fabric – typically made with a few layers of different plastics and other materials that can be difficult to recycle – a second life, long after the closing ceremony. VERSIFY™ Elastomer Technology from Dow is selected…

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AT&T and Discovery Education Put the Power of Sustainability in Students’ Hands

Stuart Mitchell

Discovery Education have launched a new effort supported by AT&T, providing innovative, dynamic resources focused on sustainability through the award-winning Experience platform. The new content created by AT&T and Discovery Education focuses on empowering middle school students to spark sustainable action in local communities. Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. Centered on the role of technology in building a more sustainable world, the resources from AT&T and Discovery Education provide educators and students the curated content required to learn…

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Vattenfall becomes member of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance

Stuart Mitchell

Swedish energy supplier Vattenfall has signed up to the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, whose mission is to move the global digital sector towards zero-emissions. Founded in late-2019, the SDIA is a non-profit entity that uniquely aligns energy suppliers, governments and industry to a mission of decarbonizing the global digital economy. While drawing attention to the rise of global data centers, whose carbon emissions rival that of the aviation industry, the not-for-profit organization seeks to drive collaboration across the value chain to promote a future digital infrastructure with minimal environmental impact.…

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