Avon Products Inc (NYSE: AVP) today announced the launch of a global environmental mobilization in more than 65 countries and a $1 million contribution to The Nature Conservancy to launch the new Hello Green Tomorrow initiative, a unique globally coordinated grassroots effort. The mission of Hello Green Tomorrow is to empower a women’s environmental movement, launching initially with Avon’s donation to replant 1 million trees in the Atlantic Rainforest in South America and global fundraising to further restore this vital ecosystem at just $1.00 per tree.
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Briggs & Stratton Corporation has donated nearly 250 Storm Responder 5500-watt, portable generators to grassroots organizations, including clinics, schools and churches, and a number of government agencies in Haiti. The generators will be put to use as electrical services are slowly restored. The generators will also serve as reserve power as hurricane season officially began in the region on June 1.
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Me playing my own arrangement of "Time on my hands" on the Stockport town hall Wurlitzer organ. The day before I listened to a recording I made playing this very piece on the Southampton Guildhall Compton organ and was amazed at how similar I made two very different instruments sound particularly between 0:46 and 1:00.
Fluke Corporation introduces five new infrared cameras with a broad range of powerful yet easy-to-use capabilities:
-IR Optiflex™ Focus System for fast, easy to take, sharply focused, accurate images.
-IR-Fusion® Technology blends digital and infrared images into a single image to precisely document problem areas.
-One-handed operation at only 1.63 pounds, balanced to sit perfectly in the hand.
-Built rugged to survive drops up to 6.5 feet.
-Multi-mode video recording to monitor processes over time and troubleshoot frame-by-frame.
-IR PhotoNotes™ annotation system to keep an exact record of equipment models, nameplates, etc.
-Electronic Compass saves precise location with the image.
-SmartView® professional IR analysis and reporting software for viewing, annotating and editing infrared images.
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Laura Cabrera is a longtime registered Adopt-A-Classroom teacher and has received over $1,000 for her classroom. In this short clip, she describes how she spreads the word about her participation in the Adopt-A-Classroom program in order to get her classroom adopted.
The Pepsi Refresh Project is giving America the power to decide how to fund good ideas, big and small, that help refresh our world. Only four months in, the Pepsi Refresh Project has funded over 100 projects and injected more than $5 million back into local communities. With 32 new grants and $1.3 million awarded each month, the impact of the Project is growing exponentially, reaching cities and towns in more than 30 states so far.
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NUTRILITE® is the world’s No. 1 selling vitamins and dietary supplements brand, exclusively from Amway, and has launched a new product in North America that offers a convenient way to add fruits and vegetables antioxidants into a diet anytime, anywhere - NUTRILITE Fruits & Vegetables 2GO Twist Tubes.
NUTRILITE Fruits & Vegetables 2GO Twist Tubes provide the natural antioxidant equivalent of two of the 9–13 recommended servings of fruits and vegetables a day in a convenient, squeezable tube. The tubes are designed to add to a cold, 16-oz. bottle of water. NUTRILITE Fruits & Vegetables 2GO Twist Tubes may be consumed on an empty stomach or with food and have a refreshing Mango-Citrus flavor.
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