PBC3 | 31 January 2020 | Shaki, office workouts, Starbucks for the planet
January 31, 2020This week on PBC3, we’re…
🥊 @ cheering for Shaki
🏋🏽♂️ @ office workouts
🧐 @ Starbucks’ environmental turn
TW: rape, sexual violence.
Video content is getting shorter and shorter to accommodate our shrinking attention spans. In journalism, this means a new kind of “long-form” content. Mini-documentaries, like this one from BBC Africa Eye, provide a slice-of-life look into systemic problems – and illustrates all the resilient ways that everyday heroes cope with them. The Fighter and the Pimp follows two women who choose very divergent methods of survival in the violent capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
BBC brings compelling storytelling in The Fighter and The Pimp, but we really appreciate that they present it responsibly. Should a viewer find their content difficult to process, BBC Action Online gives viewers information and support organizations for triggering material.
We hear a hell of a lot about how sitting is the new smoking, leaving office workers with collar-tugging levels of anxiety about their health. (We just gave up smoking, ffs.) Luckily for us, The Onion has stepped in with a fitness regime straight out of Michael Scott’s playbook. The fire drill exercise is especially good if you’re looking to cross-train for the apocalypse.
Starbucks announced new sustainability commitments this week, including carbon efficiencies, waste elimination, and a push to prioritize dairy alternatives. Starbucks has a history of being ahead of the curve when it comes to sustainability practice (renewable energy, reusable mug discounts, and climate-resistant coffee trees), but they’ve also fallen woefully short on some of their prior commitments regarding reusable packaging for single-serve beverages.
We’re celebrating an eco-friendly precedent from this corporate coffee titan; we also know there’s a carefully calculated cost-benefit to greenwashing the world’s most famous green logo. Looking forward to seeing if Starbucks keeps its commitment – it won’t solve climate emergency, but it won’t hurt either.