Year: 2020

World Wildlife Fund Joins the Walmart Foundation, Cargill, McDonald’s to Launch Million-Acre Grazing Initiative to Help Restore Grasslands, Address Climate Change

Stuart Mitchell

Cross-industry collaboration is crucial to meeting the global demand for protein while also addressing the urgency of climate change and nature loss. Responding to this challenge, the Walmart Foundation, Cargill and McDonald’s are investing over $6 million in an initiative led by World Wildlife Fund that aims to make lasting improvements to the grasslands of the Northern Great Plains. The new program, known as the Ranch Systems and Viability Planning (RSVP) network, will support ranchers across the ecoregion—focusing primarily on Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota—with technical expertise, training and tools…

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Nature’s Path to Donate One Million Bowls Worth of Food To 10 Food Bank Organizations in the U.S. and Canada

Stuart Mitchell

Nature’s Path – the leading family-owned organic breakfast and snack food company – is significantly expanding its annual Eat Well Do Good food donation campaign to address childhood hunger and food insecurity, which according U.S. Census data, has more than quadrupled since the global pandemic began in March 2020. The company is launching its efforts by donating one million bowls worth – or 250,000 boxes – of their nutritious, and organic breakfast cereals, granolas and snacks to 10 organizations in the U.S. and Canada, including: Feed the Children (US), Second…

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The Clorox Company Joins U.S. Plastics Pact, Committing To Meet Ambitious Circular Economy Goals By 2025

Stuart Mitchell

The Clorox Company has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative, solutions-driven initiative rooted in four ambitious goals intended to drive significant systems change by unifying diverse cross-sector approaches, setting a national strategy and creating scalable solutions to create a path forward toward a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025. The first North American Pact of its kind, the U.S. Pact is a collaboration led by The Recycling Partnership, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Ellen MacArthur Foundation. As part of the U.S. Pact, activators like Clorox recognize that significant,…

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Tesco launches campaign, supported by leading charities, to boost uptake of ‘most vital flu jab ever ’ as too many vulnerable people avoid jab

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco Pharmacy, Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK have joined forces to urge people at risk to get the flu jab, with a focus on vulnerable groups that too often do not do so[i].  Those vulnerable groups more at risk from flu are also more at risk of suffering ovid-19 complications.[ii] Therefore, getting the flu jab is important for these groups, and will also reduce the pressure felt by health services.  However, while jab uptake rates are high for those over 65, an at risk group, they…

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The Mix represents young people in Public Health England (PHE)’s new Every Mind Matters campaign

Stuart Mitchell

The Mix are taking part in PHE’s next phase of the Better Health – Every Mind Matters campaign. The campaign is designed to support children and young people’s mental wellbeing. The Mix are representing young people as one of the UK’s leading youth charities. Over half of parents said that their children’s mental health was one of their biggest worries during covid and most families have experienced upheaval in their daily lives during the pandemic. With children and young people now back at school or college, PHE’s new campaign provides…

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