Day: 22 June 2026

M&S introduces WalkSafe Pro to support colleague safety on the move

Stuart Mitchell

M&S is introducing WalkSafe Pro, the UK’s leading personal safety app, designed to help colleagues feel safer when travelling alone or commuting at night, reinforcing its commitment to colleague wellbeing.  Powered by location-based insights from police, local authorities and community partners, WalkSafe Pro helps colleagues make more informed journey decisions by providing information based on both police data and precautionary insights from other app users.  Colleagues can share their live journey with trusted contacts, while SOS alerts connect directly to Mitie’s 24/7 control centre, enabling real-time monitoring, assessment and a…

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PRSA Announces Sally Hogshead and Gaby Natale as Featured Keynote Speakers for ICON 2026

Stuart Mitchell

PRSA announced recently that bestselling author and branding expert Sally Hogshead and three-time Daytime Emmy Award-winning journalist and entrepreneur Gaby Natale will join the keynote lineup for ICON 2026, PRSA’s premier annual conference for public relations and communications professionals. The two internationally recognized speakers will join Savannah Bananas Head Coach Tyler Gillum, previously announced as the first keynote speaker for the conference, helping round out a dynamic and forward-looking keynote lineup designed to inspire communicators navigating a rapidly evolving industry. ICON 2026 takes place on Oct. 18-20 in Orlando, Fla.…

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Food waste – the opportunity is hiding in plain sight

Stuart Mitchell

Global environmental action NGO WRAP will use London Climate Action Week (LCAW) as the first in a series of international events to change the narrative around global food waste, showing that we have Everything to gain – nothing to waste by acting on one of the world’s biggest overlooked economic, environmental and social opportunities.  With events at Climate Week New York City and COP31 to follow, WRAP will launch a new global campaign to focus on scaling action to reduce food waste across the world’s food systems and supply chains. WRAP…

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Future Harvest: the European programme tackling the decline in generational renewal in farming

Stuart Mitchell

EIT Food and the PepsiCo Foundation today announced the launch of Future Harvest, a new European program designed to support young and next-generation farmers as they build viable, resilient and future ready farming operations. EIT Food is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Across Europe, the farming population is ageing rapidly. Only around 11% of farm managers are under the age of 40, according to European Commission and Eurostat data, while farmers face mounting pressures from climate change, rising input…

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Ceres urges timely adoption of California cap-and-invest adoption

Stuart Mitchell

Ceres recently urged the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to adopt the state’s updated cap-and-invest program without delay while maintaining the integrity of the program, emphasizing that any delay “would undermine market confidence, disrupt business planning, and signal instability at exactly the wrong moment.”   Ceres Senior Manager, State Policy, West, Maggie Field testified at a CARB hearing on the program and underscored concerns about the structure of the Manufacturing Decarbonization Incentive (MDI), a proposed mechanism within the cap-and-invest program that would provide additional emissions allowances to support industrial decarbonization…

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