Day: 12 March 2024

Clear Channel and Curiosity UnLtd partner to launch Designs4Change competition marking 60 years since the Bristol Bus Boycott

Stuart Mitchell

Clear Channel UK and Curiosity UnLtd is calling all animators, illustrators, and graphic designers to commemorate the Bristol Bus Boycott as part of the latter’s flagship campaign, Bristol Bus Boycott 360.     Presented in partnership with Clear Channel, the campaign seeks to honour three of the UK’s most successful Black-led protests. This includes the victory of the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963, Paul Stephenson’s one-man sit-in of the Bay Horse Pub in 1964, and the passing of the 1965 Race Relations Act.  Working with corporate, civic, and community changemakers, Curiosity…

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M&S expands popular ‘Refilled’ scheme to 25 stores across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has announced it is expanding its popular ‘Refilled’ scheme, in partnership with Reposit, on own-brand cleaning and laundry products, as part of its commitment to reduce and remove plastic packaging, and offer customers more sustainable choices. Following a successful trial in six stores last year*, the scheme will roll out in a further 19 M&S stores across the UK** including Liverpool One, which opened at the end of last year – bringing the total number to 25. M&S ‘Refilled’ allows customers to choose from 10 pre-filled, own-brand…

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Paw-sitive reception for robot guide dog could lead to new assistive technologies

Stuart Mitchell

Blind and partially sighted people could soon receive help to find their way around indoor spaces from chatty robot guide dogs currently in development at a Scottish university. Experts from the University of Glasgow have partnered with industry and two leading charities to develop the RoboGuide, an AI-powered four-legged robot which aims to help visually impaired people move more independently through museums, shopping centres, hospitals and other public places in the future. The RoboGuide prototype integrates a range of cutting-edge technologies into an off-the-shelf robot body to help overcome the…

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New study confirms Fairtrade roses from Kenya have smaller environmental footprint

Stuart Mitchell

Fairtrade roses from Kenya have a smaller environmental footprint when compared to roses produced in Holland, even when factoring in transport to Europe, according to a recently released report. The report, titled Life Cycle Assessment Cut Roses, found that Fairtrade cut roses from Kenya – whether transported to Switzerland by air or sea – have a lower impact across all the environmental areas analysed, including cumulative energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions, and freshwater eutrophication, a pollution process where lakes or streams become over-rich in plant nutrients. For the Dutch roses,…

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New EPA rules will remove harmful air pollution, with public health and economic benefits

Stuart Mitchell

Ceres applauds the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s newly released standards for pollution from fine particulate matter, otherwise known as PM2.5 or soot, a harmful and deadly pollutant produced by fossil fuel power plants, vehicle emissions, and other industrial sources that harm public health in exposed communities.  “The EPA’s new particulate matter standard is a lifesaver and will help build a cleaner, healthier, and more just economy for all,” said Anne Kelly, vice president of government relations, Ceres. “Ceres commends the Biden administration for tackling this important public health challenge with…

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