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Jimmy Leslie posted an update in the group
The Wall 4 years agoComing up soon on @tfacna with new artist Ryan Martin, beautiful layering with Winsor & Newton Coloured Pencils.
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Liza Kindon posted an update in the group
The Wall 4 years agoSpring has arrived at Kidderminster with the Sustainability Tree blossoming with our ever-growing ideas, implementing new Sustainable ideas with the oak leaves for all initiatives in 2022.
Thank you to @Adam Sayer from Crown Artist Brush for sharing his idea with replacing plastic packaging tape with Kraft paper tape, I have added an Oak Leaf for Adam onto the Kidderminster Tree.
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Great work by the Sustainability team! Loving the new Oak leaves.…
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Great work…
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Looks great Liza! Is it possible to find a way to share some of the leaves? I’d love to see what kind of ideas colleagues are suggesting.…
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Great to see the Sustainability Tree blossoming all those new leaves
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it looks amazing Liza and helps to remember just what we’ve achieved and also to inspire us all to think and act sustainably …
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Lovely and a great way to use Spring and the opening of new leaves to articulate Sustainability!…
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it’s great to see how you work together in Kidderminster to drive your shared passion for igniting sustainability …
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Well done everyone. Great ideas from all.
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Gareth Meredith posted an update in the group
The Wall 4 years agoUPDATE TO STARTER AND LEAVER FORMS
We all want to celebrate those people joining the Colart family, equally as we celebrate those leaving the Colart family. Leavers maybe elsewhere but they are still part of our family. And, it\’s great that starters feel welcomed through an announcement.
If don\’t know or haven\’t noticed, this is published weekly on your Colart News newsletter.Recently the Communications team (currently just me 😉 ) published an article Internal Communications: Deadlines For Telling Your Story. This included new deadlines for submitting your stories and a link to the starters/leavers form.
I\’m pleased to say this form has now been updated and follows a better logic by separating the starter information from the leaver information. Can all line managers please use this form from now. Access via the article link above or here.Thanks in advance.
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Updates are great Gareth: well done! …
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Karen Spinner posted an update in the group
The Wall 4 years agoThinking about small but meaningful actions we can take to live a life kinder to our planet and the wonderful creatures we share it with, this sustainability Wednesday I want to talk about…reusable period pants!
While I was aware of the damage disposable nappies inflict on the environment (in the UK alone over eight million disposable nappies are thrown away every day), it’s only in recent years I’ve questioned how my use of sanitary products was contributing to this.
Time for some grim stats:
- Sanitary towels and tampons take around 500 years to decompose
- 90% of a sanitary towel is comprised of plastic (and tampons have plastic applicators and often come in individual plastic wrappers)
- Women use more than 11,000 disposable menstrual products in their lifetime
- In the UK alone disposable menstrual products generate 200,000 tonnes of waste a year, much of which is flushed down the loo, causing blockages and the distribution of harmful microplastics
There wasn’t much innovation in terms of period products back in 1990 when I started my period and it’s awful to think of the impact just one person can have, but switching to resuable absorbent period pants has been for me a very practical – and simple – way to reduce this and make a small but tangible difference.
Each pair of period pants is estimated to remove 200 disposables from landfill (or being flushed down the loo). Products from companies such as Flux (https://www.fluxundies.com) and Wuka (https://wuka.co.uk) are free of chemicals, made from sustainable materials and are cruelty free and ethically manufactured. One year’s worth of resuables emits just 1.9kg carbon dioxide, compared to 20.4kg for disposables.
While there is still an issue around initial affordability and period poverty, in the long term resusables, which last for years, represent far better value for both the individual and the planet.
I’d love to know if anyone else has tried – or is thinking of trying – period pants. Some of my friends are a bit squeamish about them, but I’ve found them a total gamechanger.
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Interesting read and a such a large negative environmental impact, thanks for sharing Karen, as you say the little things certainly add up…
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It shocking, isn’t it Ajita? I was horrified when I found out, but better late than never when it comes to making a change!…
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Love this Karen, thanks for sharing! I wonder if the lack of innovation in period products stems from this being considered a taboo subject for such a long time. Period pants are not something I’ve come across in the past but I’ve got several friends that rave about their Moon Cup – https://www.mooncup.co.uk/ which is another great, sustainable alternative to traditional products. And I’ve just discovered is also made in the UK. …
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Hi Laura, thanks so much for commenting. Now, I remember stickers promoting Mooncups being all over the back of loo doors in clubs and bars in Brighton back in the 90s! Then the Mooncup was seen as a very hippie, ‘out there’ alternative option. It’s great to hear it is now a mainstream product and like you I’ve heard rave reviews. I very much like the fact they are manufactured in the UK. One thing I’m not keen on with period pants is that they seem to all be made in China, so lots of product miles.…
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Ah this post is amazing Karen. I’m so pleased that we can start conversations like these and raise ourselves above, as Laura states, subjects previously considered as taboo. At the end of the day the topic considers something very natural and offers a solution to nature. Congrats for being brave enough to broach the subject.…
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Thank you so much Gareth! I can’t tell you how much of a gamechanger these pants have been for me. And as you say, periods are a completely natural and everyday part of life. While there is a long way to go in removing some of the ridiculous taboo around menstruation (especially outside of the UK), it’s fantastic to see the progress made. We’ve come a long way since those days back in the 90s and early noughties when you’d hide your sanitary towel or tampon up the sleeve of your jumper and scuttle off to the loo!…
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The topic is a bit alien to me as I was born in a male body and do not live with female humans but my sentiment is similar to Gareth’s Karen. Thank you for raising the topic. I too feel a bit squeamish about the solution but like Laura have lots of female friends using cups instead of “traditional” sanitary solutions. I guess we could always question ourselves on what is “the norm” and I do believe everyone has the right to choose the solution they feel most comfortable with. As such, it’s a great thing that this solution is available and that you are sharing it with us to make us aware that there are more solutions available than we might think.…
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Thank you Jasper! Totally with you on questioning what the norm is and how we can do things differently. Often making the change is the most daunting bit…and then you get into a new way of doing things.…
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Well done Karen. And I have never been able to understand why innovation in this area – that affects 50% OF THE WORLD POPULATION EVERY MONTH – has been so slow. You’d have thought by now there would be a solution that wasn’t just pants! Impressed that you have raised the sustainability issue here. …
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Thank you for commenting Jo! Also, with love and respect to all our male colleagues, I wonder if innovation would have been so slow if men had periods?! #justsaying…
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I’ve been using menstrual cups for almost a decade now and have some period pants too – for lighter days it can be better. Plus they can be worn on any day, so if someone isn’t that regular put them on a couple days earlier and no surprises in the middle of an outing! 🙂…
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Hey Sophie, sounds like you are having the most sustainable periods ever! It’s such a good call about avoiding the little ‘surprises’, especially as the period pants are so comfy and easy to wear.…
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A huge topic. Thanks for raising it Karen. For sure single use sanitary products could be far better designed. Paper wrapped fully biodegradable product is available and has a huge part to play and manufacturers should innovate. Globally however there is an underlying issue and there needs to be a huge effort to remove taboo & stigma through education.…
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Thank you Richard, you are right that (as with so many things) we are in a really privileged position in the UK/Europe. And even here, while it’s becoming easier to find sanitary items that are fully biodegradable, they aren’t a mainstream item in the way they should be.…
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Great topic! I also use menstrual cup and period pants, they are much better to my opinion, they feel so much safer and more confort to wear, i recommend them 100%:)…
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Thanks for commenting Amelie, it’s so interesting to see how many people are opting for the menstrual cup. I totally agree with you on the pants, I think they feel very reliable and comfy, giving you confidence even on those horrid heavy days.…
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What a great discussion and sharing….I’m not only late to the discussion but also late to the ability to test alternatives which takes me into another taboo area…Menopause! It is shameful that two of the most profound physical rhythms of women’s lives are just not spoken about.
So how can Colart support? ….I don’t know but I would love to hear your thoughts by clicking on the following link:-
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=8vLVpM0MWEGi3vJVGh4usLkb-VO7rHVEoZul-kBEzxpUM0c0MTRNTjFUQzBBN0tNVFJUNlNXTDZJMi4u
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Thank you Jane and thank you too for raising the topic of menopause – it’s such an important conversation to have. I was away with a friend at the weekend and she’s had a horrendous time with the menopause that has affected all parts of her life, especially work. So good to have this on our agenda at Colart.…
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Emily Steer posted an update in the group
The Wall 4 years agoThe editorial team visited the opening days of the Venice Biennale last week and I would encourage everyone to take a trip before it closes in November. Such an incredible collection of shows and artists shown in a (mostly) non-commercial setting. I wanted to share this mindblowing work by Anselm Kiefer which makes the most incredible use of paint. He has created giant wall panels in the city’s grand Palazzo Ducale, which explore themes of war and death. The smell of oil paint hits you as you enter the space and it is built up in thick layers of gold (mirroring the building’s opulent ceilings) and gooey black and dark blood red (reflecting the building’s war cabinets and frankly terrifying dungeons). The original ceiling paintings are really spectacular, and the new work is a must-see for any paint lovers.
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The images have come up tiny – see here for more! https://www.designscene.net/2022/04/anselm-kiefer-palazzo-ducale.html…
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The scale Emily! Looking forward to catching up with the Elephant take on all things Biennale throughout the week on elephant.art…
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It’s so amazing! Really hard to compete against that architecture and original paint work but it really holds its own.…
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Amazing. I saw Kiefer for the very first time in the 90s at Castello de Rivoli and can honestly say it was seeing the materiality in his work that made me understand the importance of this part of the totality in making work. stunning always…
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Oh wow I’m such a fan of Castello de Rivoli – Kiefer must have been incredible in there! Definitely get to Venice if you have the chance while it’s on, it is such a treat…
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Wow, that really does look amazing! Thanks for sharing!…
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Thanks Sophie, it’s really spectacular …
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I’ve booked for September and cannot wait now. Thanks for sharing Emily and I’ll be coming to you for more tips on how to make the most of my three days in Venice.…
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Ahh that’s great, enjoy! I want to go back September/October too when the summer tourism has calmed down a bit. Check out elephant.art over the next few weeks as loads of Venice picks and features will be up on the site…
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His works are always impressive. There are two very large ones in the Dutch museum Voorlinden as well and they really are a sight. Thanks for sharing this post Emily, might be worthwhile to make a trip to Austria after all…
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Well done Karen. I have never been able to understand why innovation in an area that AFFECTS 50% OF THE WORLD ADULT POULATION ONCE A MONTH has been so slow and still the only solution is pants! Impressed you have raised the sustainability aspect here.…
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