Day: 21 October 2022

‘Low Carbon Living’ partnership announced to highlight importance of carbon removals

Stuart Mitchell

Carbon conscious consumers and businesses now have the ability to fully offset their carbon footprint by purchasing high quality carbon removal credits.  JustCarbon and Carbon Savvy are looking to overcome some of the problems there have been in the marketplace previously, by only featuring high quality credits from robustly designed and measured, nature-based projects, that maintain or add new carbon removal capacity to the planet’s ecosystems. This method would assist those who have already made decisions to live a lower carbon lifestyle. JustCarbon’s JCR token represents 1 tonne of CO2 removed from the atmosphere, which…

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Wesco International’s Annual Sustainability Report Now Available; Sets 2030 Goals for Landfill Waste, Green House Gas Emissions and Safety

Stuart Mitchell

Wesco International, a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, issued its annual Sustainability Report. The report outlines Wesco’s progress and key initiatives for advancing its environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals that include reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30%, reducing landfill waste intensity by 15%, achieving a 15% reduction in total recordable incident rate (TRIR) and providing 425,000 hours of safety training and development to employees – all by 2030. The report follows a year of continued growth and value creation for Wesco’s stakeholders and…

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Electrolux and Planet Water Foundation Expand Partnership Into India, To Bring Clean Water Access

Stuart Mitchell

Electrolux, a leading global appliance company that has shaped living for the better for more than 100 years, and Planet Water Foundation, a nonprofit organization that addresses water poverty, have announced an expansion of their global partnership to provide access to clean, safe drinking water in India. The two organizations’ partnership began in 2019 and has seen Planet Water and volunteers from Electrolux build and deploy community-based water filtration systems in Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, to date. The expansion of the partnership into India in August, saw the…

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International Paper and Global FoodBanking Network Continues to Improve Food Security Across the Globe

Stuart Mitchell

International Paper and The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) continues its partnership for a multi-year investment to support capacity-building efforts among food banks in Europe and Latin America. This support enables food banks in Mexico, Canada, Spain, Poland, Italy, Chile and Guate mala to enhance their food recovery and redistribution programs to reach more people in need of assistance. As IP invested in communities, many people were helped through the grants. In Mexico, their partners created a school breakfast program that helped 200 children. They were able to supply each child…

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NBCUniversal Commits to Nonprofit Storytelling

Stuart Mitchell

NBCUniversal has announced that it has launched the Creative Impact Lab, a new initiative that focuses the company’s social purpose on nonprofit storytelling and provides opportunities for apprentices from diverse backgrounds to hone their production skills. The goal of the Lab is to shine a light on the individual positive social impact of nonprofits, and to help the next generation of content creators break into the media industry and learn the trade. “It is critical for nonprofits to visually illustrate their impact through personal, human stories,” said Hilary Smith, Executive…

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