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McDonald’s has introduced a tiny restaurant designed specifically for bees, aiming to provide a safe haven for these important creatures. This fully functional beehive was carefully created by a skilled woodworker and offers enough room to accommodate thousands of bees. The miniature eatery features recognizable McDonald’s branding, including a small “drive-thru” entrance and a cozy patio area with seating. It even includes window advertisements, resembling a traditional McDonald’s restaurant. This unique initiative was inspired by McDonald’s branches in Sweden, which have beehives installed on their rooftops. Moreover, various McDonald’s franchisees have joined in efforts to protect bees, as their population has been declining significantly in recent years. By creating the world’s tiniest restaurant for bees, McDonald’s aims to raise awareness about the importance of these pollinators and the challenges they face. This initiative not only pays tribute to their Swedish branches but also encourages other businesses and individuals to take action in protecting and supporting bee populations. #bees #McDonald #Sweden #businesses #challenges

McDonald’s has introduced a tiny restaurant designed specifically for bees, aiming to provide a safe haven for these important creatures. This fully functional beehive was carefully created by a skilled woodworker and offers enough room to accommodate thousands of bees. The miniature eatery features recognizable McDonald’s branding, including a small “drive-thru” entrance and a cozy patio area with seating. It even includes window advertisements, resembling a traditional McDonald’s restaurant. This unique initiative was inspired by McDonald’s branches in Sweden, which have beehives installed on their rooftops. Moreover, various McDonald’s franchisees have joined in efforts to protect bees, as their population has been declining significantly in recent years. By creating the world’s tiniest restaurant for bees, McDonald’s aims to raise awareness about the importance of these pollinators and the challenges they face. This initiative not only pays tribute to their Swedish branches but also encourages other businesses and individuals to take action in protecting and supporting bee populations. #bees #McDonald #Sweden #businesses #challenges

It was great to be a part, albeit a very minor, of this collaboration brew between Murphy & Son Ltd, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and Castle Rock Brewery. The aim was to produce a more sustainable beer, this was achieved by: 1 - The addition of 'Trizyme', a Murphy's product that is an enzyme blend of a-amylase, b-glucanase and protease to improve saccharification of the malt and to aid yeast metabolism. 2 - Using a 'Kviek' yeast that can ferment rapidly at temperature above 30C, thereby reducing fermentation time and the requirement for significant cooling. 3 - Using British grown hop varieties. The use of local hops reduces the CO2 impact of transportation when compared to the varities originating from the US or NZ. I'm hoping to pursue more avenues to improve the environmental impact of the brewing indistry with Murphy's and our collaborators!

Through the Kentucky Fried Wishes program, the KFC Foundation will award up to $1 million total to 100 nonprofit organizations in the United States. Twenty-five grants will be awarded per quarterly cycle. The remaining quarterly cycles for 2024 focus on the following areas: improving health and well-being (open for application in May 2024), including efforts such as mobile health clinic creation, playground improvements, domestic violence shelter upgrades, and accommodations for individuals with disabilities; expanding access to food and shelter (open for application in July 2024), including efforts such as food pantry remodels, community garden creation, building repairs and renovations, and beautification of community space; and caring for the environment and animals (open for application in September 2024), including efforts such as permanent wildlife conservation exhibits, a new vehicle for a mobile vet clinic, and park improvements. (The application window focused on empowering through education and training was open in February 2024.) Eligible nonprofit organizations must operate on the local level (or be an affiliate or chapter of a larger organization that operates locally) and directly benefit their surrounding community.  Call 516.410.4895, or email clolataylor@gmail.com for a free fee quote to have us write your entire proposal, or edit your draft, for a reasonable flat fee. https://lnkd.in/eeyjMsGw Bev Browning Holly Rustick

Last Tuesday, Joe Pélissier was running an off-site workshop for WildFish exploring ways to maximise the impact of the messages it wants to communicate in 2024. When you are a small busy team, and with more projects than resources, this is always a challenge. WildFish is an amazing environmental NGO doing great work to increase our awareness and understanding of the state of our polluted rivers. Their work is evidence based which is why the government and its #environmental agencies have little choice but to start to listen to them. https://wildfish.org/ These workshops are always fun and challenging, and I learn a lot from delivering them. If you are a small team looking to review how you are going to get your message out this year, here are a few of my takeaways: 1. Always try to make the time review and evaluate they way you communicate and the frequency  - don't keep doing the same old thing. 2. Too often we are fixated on frequency at the expense of being relevant and interesting. 3. People find it very hard to work out and agree on what they should STOP doing. 4. Younger colleagues have a more finely attuned sense of what does and doesn't work digitally - they need to be brought into the conversation much, much earlier. 5. Bring in some friendly outsiders to watch and observe the workshop - they will have powerful insights worth paying attention to.  A big thank you to CEO, Nick Measham, Deputy CEO, Janina Gray and Communications Manager, Immy O'Keeffe for asking me to run the workshop. Here's to the continued success of the important work that WildFish does.  Please pay them a visit. https://wildfish.org/

We have a story in the latest issue of Neighbourhood Media detailing all the work we do via Addison Road Food Pantry Camperdown, our low-cost grocery store which makes use of rescued, donated and purchased food to support the local community and its needs. The story (link below) shows how we help feed people from Mission Australia's Common Ground housing project and the nearby Johanna O’Dea Court, a multi-storey NSW Family and Community Services apartment block. It also explains how we serve people living on a tight budget in Camperdown and Glebe, as well as people who come to the pantry from right across the City of Sydney LGA. Most of all, the story is a celebration of our monthly Addi Road 'Let's Get Cooking' sessions (AKA "the Cook-Up"), which offers 260 free hot meals for Mission Australia and Joanna O'Dea residents, as well as those shopping at our Addi Road Food Pantry Camperdown. These sessions involve a monthly cooking demo inside the Common Ground building. Food literacy is the ultimate goal behind Addi Road's Let's Get Cooking program. As well as simply providing a free hot meal (and dessert) each month, we look at helping people to shop AND cook with often very limited funds. Each month there are easy recipes on offer (and ready to be tasted) along extra tips for stocking people's kitchen cupboards; a list of essentials to facilitate simple, inexpensive and nutritious recipes that will match whatever Addi Road Food Pantry might have in stock. It's about building an integrated food ecology for people battling. With a few extra special ingredients over a shared meal as the community comes together: camaraderie and connection. + #Addiroad #cityofsydney #foodrelief #foodjustice #housing #inequality #Camperdown #Glebe #MissionAustralia #homeless #battling #costofliving #poverty #resilience #mentalhealth #wellbeing #nutrition #diet #charity #community #freemeals #cookingworkshop #volunteers #caring #education #connection #letsgetcooking #neighbourhoodmedia https://lnkd.in/gs7vVEvM

"Who needs a petting zoo when you can have your own farm in the backyard?! 🐔🦆🐇 I've been raising chickens, ducks, and rabbits and let me tell you, it's a hilarious and rewarding adventure! 🌱 Check out my blog post on how to start your own little farm at home! #backyardfarm #chickenkeeper #pettingzooathome"

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What a day for a worm survey! 🪱 It was lovely to be joined by some of the Lloyd & Whyte team for a day of corporate volunteering. If your team would be interested in joining us for a day like this, please email rosa.romeo@healrewilding.org.uk for more information. #Rewilding #CorporateVolunteering #CorporateDay #Environment #Biodiversity

Our true purpose in life? Giving back to nature! We are natural born consumers and we need a lot of care and attention. Therefore if we can do it, giving back is an empowering and eye opening experience. Our personal mission, goal and purpose in life is different from one person to another, we're all here to fulfil a different purpose. But there is a common purpose that is shared between all of us and that is giving back to nature, looking after the environment, animals and one another. In this way we are giving back to nature. This is a common duty and it requires systems and processes in place, but recycling for example is a good example of looking after the environment, giving to animal protection is a good charity and doing jobs that support others is a good way to give back to others. So this adds value to who we are and gives us a mature vision in life. Giving back is our common purpose.