Day: 2 April 2022

Whirlpool Corporation Wins “Best Cause-Related Video” Highlighting Work in Social Responsibility

Stuart Mitchell

Whirlpool Corporation is a proud winner of the “Best Cause-Related Video” in Ragan Communications’ Video, Visual & Virtual Awards for our House+Home video, because they state: their responsibility to the communities in which they work is so important to they are. This past year, they strengthened their collective impact and rolled out a worldwide corporate responsibility strategy called House+Home, recognizing that both the “house” – a place to live, and “home” – resilient neighborhoods focused on education and community development, create thriving communities. They state their new House+Home strategy took…

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mortierbrigade strikes again on Equal Pay Day

Stuart Mitchell

mortierbrigade has been creating quirky campaigns for Equal Pay Day for over ten years. This year is no different with the agency producing another striking campaign about the persisting gender pay gap. The stars of the film are a group of former elite Belgian athletes, with a surprise leading role for… the umbilical cord. In their film ‘The Umbilical Cord’ directors Lionel Goldstein shine the spotlight on six former Belgian champions, namely hammer thrower Kathleen De Wolf (six-time world champion), pole vaulter Karen Pollefeyt (5 gold medals at the Belgian…

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Clipper Teas Announces New Packaging Innovation

Stuart Mitchell

Clipper Teas, a pioneering Fairtrade and organic tea brand, has announced new fully recyclable packaging – the latest milestone in its 38-year history of ethical and sustainable tea production.  The Dorset-based tea brand, owned by Ecotone UK, has invested over £1 million in the development of a new production line to create a specially designed box, which features a reinforced structure to lock in Clipper’s delicious taste and aroma, while also protecting the tea bags inside.  The substantial investment has allowed the brand to remove the unrecyclable inner foil bag across Clipper’s larger pack formats, making the packaging fully recyclable and suitable for kerbside collection for the paper recycling stream.    The move will save a minimum of 20 tonnes of metalised plastic from going to landfill or incineration each year, in addition to the plastic Clipper eliminated through…

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CISL initiatives spotlighted in university’s Annual Environmental Sustainability Report

Stuart Mitchell

This week the University of Cambridge has published its Annual Environmental Sustainability Report, which provides details of the University’s successes in sustainability, the lessons learned and the plans for the forthcoming year. The report, highlights the collective impact of partners across the university including projects from Schools and Departments, as well the Sustainability Team, Cambridge Zero Speaking about the report the VC Chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope said: “As this Report shows, progress towards our ambitious SBT is firm, and makes Cambridge a national and global leader in tackling the…

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Startups and scaleups invited to partner on Unilever’s sustainable beauty solutions

Stuart Mitchell

The Unilever Foundry, Unilever’s collaborative innovation network, has launched a new entrepreneurial challenge focused on sustainable beauty solutions, through the Positive Beauty Growth Platform. Unilever is searching for the very best startups, scaleups and academic spinouts to partner with our teams to bring brilliant functional ingredients that work with nature to our Beauty & Personal Care products and packaging. The Positive Beauty Growth Platform was launched last year to support Unilever’s Positive Beauty vision – an industry-leading series of progressive commitments and actions for our Beauty & Personal Care brands,…

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