Month: October 2022

Getty Images and GLAAD Challenge Global Creatives to Break Visual Stereotypes Faced by the LGBTQ+ Community

Stuart Mitchell

Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, in collaboration with GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organisation, has announced its latest global creative grant of US$25,000 focused on the Chosen Family. The grant seeks diverse perspectives, photographers and videographers to help increase visibility of the LGBTQ+ community while also challenging harmful, cliched visual stereotypes. This grant will provide financial support and mentorship to content creators who are authentically showcasing and exploring celebrations, events and actions across a broad range of people and…

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Global generosity growth as more people donate and help strangers 

Stuart Mitchell

More people donated money to charity and helped a stranger last year than in any year of the previous decade, according to the Charities Aid Foundation’s World Giving Index 2022. Around the world, 3 billion people helped someone they didn’t know last year, increasing by approximately half a billion compared to prior to the pandemic.  Around 200 million more people also donated money to charity worldwide, with donations rising by 10% in high-income economies. The World Giving Index is one of the biggest surveys into giving ever produced with nearly…

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WRAP shows G7 how to save 0.8 billion tonnes of CO2eq emissions with greater focus on consumption-based emissions

Stuart Mitchell

Global climate action NGO WRAP has produced a report for the G7 in support of the seismic shift in international strategies tackling greenhouse gas emissions expected to take place soon, and to help address the massive volume of greenhouse gases linked to ‘consumption’ currently passing unchecked into the atmosphere every year. With G7 countries controlling or influencing a quarter (27%) of all global emissions, WRAP welcomed the announcement earlier this year that the G7 would increase focus on making resource efficiency and circular economy the norm and pursuing sustainable consumption…

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Start-Up eniferBio Wins 2022 Tesco Agri T-Jam and World Agri-Tech Pitch Day

Stuart Mitchell

Chosen from over 140 international submissions, eniferBio wins fast-track introduction to Tesco’s supply chain and mentoring from the Tesco Agriculture team. Finnish agtech start-up eniferBio has won the opportunity to work with the UK’s leading retailer, Tesco, and its supply chain partners, after winning the 5th edition of the Tesco Agri T-Jam pitching event run in partnership with the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit. The innovator is developing a mycoprotein feed suitable for aquaculture, poultry and pig supply chains that is made from renewable raw materials and will offer a sustainable…

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Sir Tony Robinson and Amanda Mealing join line up at WaterAid’s Christmas Carol Concert at St Paul’s Cathedral

Stuart Mitchell

This year WaterAid is inviting everyone to soak up the magic of Christmas at a carol concert in the world-renowned St Paul’s Cathedral in London.   Held on Tuesday 6th December 2022, it is set to be an unmissable evening, featuring readings, poems, carols and performances.   Actor Sir Tony Robinson and actress Amanda Mealing will be doing readings and will be joined by the iconic Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, the City of London Sinfonia Orchestra, one of the world’s leading orchestras. Singing will be brit award nominee and Opera Singer…

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