Can AI be ethical and accessible to all? That was the main question the 11 thousand people who attended the AI for Good Global Summit 2025 in Geneva had in their minds.
The global demand for energy continues to surge, driven by population growth, urbanization, energy-intensive AI models and the increasing electrification of industry and transportation.
It was late Thursday afternoon when FedEx received an urgent email from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) as Hurricane Imelda threatened to make landfall on the Carolina coast.
When Jimmy Chin shot the world’s first free solo climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in 2017, staying easily connected to his family wasn’t an option. On expeditions like that one, it could take days to reach them.
Carnival Corporation & plc today announced it has signed a series of historic memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with food banks and community partners in Mexico, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
During National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, employees at Aflac Northern Ireland set out to raise funds for The Children’s Cancer Unit Charity (CCUC) with the Three Peaks Challenge, a trek to the Mournes that includes Slieve Binnian, Slieve Commedagh and Slieve Donard.
Overnight on July 30, 2024, rural communities in the western Indian state of Kerala faced the worst flooding they had ever seen. These communities are prone to increasingly frequent and intense storms, but the landslides that followed devastated villages throughout the area and
Do you rarely think about your blood sugar levels unless they dip and you start feeling shaky and sweaty? If so, you’re not alone. However, these days it’s becoming trendy to monitor blood sugar levels around the clock—and not just for people who have diabetes.
As an entrepreneur, Mark Patterson knows his strengths and knows when to pivot. When he launched Civilized Coffee, he soon realized that roasted and whole bean coffee was a highly competitive and very expensive market.
Through our ever-evolving partnership, Cisco and Indus Action have helped countless vulnerable citizens transform their lives for the better by increasing their access to education, maternal health, labor welfare, and more.
Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest travel and leisure company, will welcome representatives from leading conservation, science and sustainability organizations Jan. 26-27 to its Miami headquarters for The Nature Conservancy's Mapping Ocean Wealth annual forum.
Undergraduate students selected for the Amgen Scholars Europe Program at Karolinska Institutet will be given the opportunity to conduct research during 8 weeks in the summer at KI.
Consumers who integrated WeatherBug Home’s HVAC control and optimization capabilities with their connected thermostat saved 16.5% electricity when cooling their home as compared to 5.1% HVAC savings from a connected thermostat –-- saving 11.4% more in HVAC energy use -- according to results from a pilot conducted by National Grid.
With today’s modern technology, we now have the ability to manage all aspects of our grant-giving, including the ability to measure effectiveness, right at our fingertips.
Today is the last day to save 20% on registration for the International Women's Day Forum 2016. The Business of Inclusion: Global Prosperity through Women and Girls Empowerment will convene more than 500 public and private sector leaders to explore inclusive solutions that create opportunities for women and girls around the world.
To reach the level of investment in new renewable power generation needed to avert dangerous climate change, $12.1 trillion of investment will be needed over the next 25 years, which is $5.2 trillion above business-as-usual projections, a new report by Ceres and Bloomberg New Energy Finance concludes.
Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) and ArtServe announce the Jury panelists for the “Art to End AIDS” public mural project that is part of the broader HIV Ends With Me and Broward Greater Than AIDS campaigns.
In 2015 the government of Panama, through its Ministry of Public Works, embarked on a project with CEMEX to rehabilitate 5.7 km of the road, a project that is now approximately 45% complete and is expected to be delivered in June of this year.
SolarCity is the nation’s largest solar provider. Among the reasons for that are some of their innovative, community-oriented programs, like their GivePower Foundation which provides a free solar system and battery to a school without electricity for every MW of solar that they install.
To commemorate Subaru’s seventh record-breaking sales year, the company will donate a meal for every vehicle sold in 2015 -- 582,675* -- to help the Feeding America® nationwide network of 200 food banks. This is the second year Subaru has matched its year-end sales figure to meal donations.
The Bard MBA in Sustainability will host a live discussion: COP21, The Unstoppable Momentum Behind Corporate Climate Action on the dial-in podcast, Sustainable Business Fridays, with Margaret Fenwick, Manager Environment and Climate, United Nation Global Compact office, on Friday, January 29th, at 12pm.
A global pharmaceutical organization sought to improve its best‐in‐class EHS and social responsibility performance across its global organization. Following establishment and communication of baseline performance expectations to its sites, it was necessary to evaluate a diverse array of locations in multiple geographies to determine the degree of conformance and recommend corrective actions if necessary.
When I look back at my own education, I am grateful to the adults who opened doors of opportunity for me. At the time, I just knew them as people I looked up to; today I understand these inspiring people were my mentors.
As the holidays come to a close and students are returning to school, teachers across the country will have a special announcement for more than 37,200 students. Their classroom project has been funded!
Most of the products we buy and consume are bound to reach their ‘end of life’ at some stage. To date, business and industry have customarily followed an economic model that is built on the premise of ‘take-make-consume and dispose’.
Influencing customer behaviour through an integrated marketing and sustainability strategy is the next big challenge for big brands wanting to create that bigger positive change.
With cold and flu season well underway, parents and teachers have a new tool to teach kids how to protect themselves from germs. “Soap and Water Science” is a fun online activity developed by Ecolab’s partner, the Project WET Foundation, to teach kids how germs spread—and how soap and water work together to stop that process. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cite washing hands with soap as one of the “most effective ways to prevent the spread of many types of infection and illness in all settings.”
Southwest Solutions, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Mission Asset Fund (MAF) today announced the launch of Lending Circles, a new social loan program that will allow Detroit residents to safely build credit through zero-interest loans.
For the ninth consecutive year, LG Electronics is the number one front-load washing machine brand in the highly competitive U.S. market, according to 2015 data from the Stevenson Company, a leading market research firm. In fact, the data shows that LG ENERGY STAR® certified front-load washing machines comprised more than 25 percent of all washers sold during 2015 in major U.S. retail stores such as Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowe’s, more than any other brand.
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Doing what we do best for those who need it most. When disaster strikes, and there’s not a moment to lose, our people mobilize the FedEx global fleet...
The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
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