Day: 21 April 2022

Feeding America Releases New PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS Featuring SHANOLA HAMPTON

Stuart Mitchell

Feeding America®, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization, has launched new public service announcements (PSAs) designed to raise awareness about hunger in the United States. The PSAs featuring Feeding America Entertainment Council member, actress, and activist Shanola Hampton, who volunteered her time and talent, call upon people to help families facing hunger in America by supporting the Feeding America nationwide network of food banks. The COVID-19 pandemic created an economic crisis that upended many people’s lives and continues to have ripple effects to this day. Feeding America estimates that at least…

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New global iStock research finds an overwhelming shift towards more sustainable consumer practices

Stuart Mitchell

Ahead of Earth Day on Friday, iStock, a leading ecommerce platform providing premium images and videos to SMBs, SMEs, creatives and students everywhere, has released research revealing that 94% of people surveyed are personally practicing sustainability. This number peaked in the Spring of 2021 (at 95%), when the UK government announced it would set into law the world’s most ambitious climate change target, cutting emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. For the past two years iStock’s creative insights platform Visual GPS, a trusted source of visual guidance…

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Morrisons to Switch to 100% Peat-free Compost

Stuart Mitchell

Morrisons will phase out peat-based compost at its 497 stores and 303 garden centres across the UK by the end of the year, to help customers to garden more sustainably. More widely, the Government has called on UK retailers to ban the sale of compost containing peat by 2024, to help tackle global warming. Over two million bags of compost are sold by Morrisons a year. In the place of peat, Morrisons is introducing a variety of sustainable composts for its customers. The range will include coir compost, which is…

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Southampton’s first ‘Bee Bus Shelter’ takes root

Stuart Mitchell

Southampton’s first Living Roof bus shelter, designed to support pollinating insects and enhance local biodiversity, has been unveiled to the public. The brand-new shelter, installed by council partner Clear Channel, is located a short walk from Southampton Central Station and is the first of eight locations selected by the council to receive a brand-new structure for bus users and Living Roof. In the coming weeks, the upgrades will also be taking place on London Road and Ichen Bridge, along with the remaining shelters on Wyndham Place.  Each shelter is planted…

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Apple’s $4.7B in Green Bonds support innovative green technology

Stuart Mitchell

Investments from Apple’s $4.7 billion in Green Bonds have helped jump-start the development of new low-carbon manufacturing and recycling technologies, the company announced today. Apple has issued three Green Bonds since 2016, with projects showcasing how the investments can reduce global emissions and bring clean power to communities around the world. As part of this work, Apple is purchasing direct carbon-free aluminium following a major advancement in smelting technology to reduce emissions. The aluminium is the first to be manufactured at industrial scale outside of a laboratory without creating any direct carbon emissions…

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