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.
The world’s leading global manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances will showcase some of its most innovative products at the International Builders Show from Jan. 19-21, and provide builders with exclusive insights into the vital role millennials play in the home building market.
A university campus offers a great environment in which to implement sustainability. Particularly, an innovation-driven university can create a durable system where new and promising ideas can be continually incorporated.
One source of optimism today comes from confirmation that the U.K. economic downturn has not dented people's desire to reduce their impact on the environment or spend on ethical products, in spite of some big U.K. retail brands recently announcing ‘disappointing’ trading performances.
Today, science and agricultural leaders DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) announced a new breakthrough process with the potential to expand the materials landscape in the 21st century with exciting and truly novel, high-performance renewable materials. The technology has applications in packaging, textiles, engineering plastics and many other industries.
The signing of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) agreement in Paris last month is a victory for many who have been laboring for decades. It is miraculous that the world, as represented by 154 nations, has committed to address what is threatening us all – the devastating effects of global warming
SASB has announced a new educational program focused on teaching professionals how to identify, manage, and evaluate sustainability topics relevant to the company’s bottom line. Read the interview with Nicolai Lundy, the Director of Education for the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board.
Whirlpool Corporation, the world’s leading global manufacturer of home appliances, will share its outlook on the future of appliance design and display products that make an impact on the daily lives of consumers at the International Builders Show from Jan. 19-21.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) today released the first report of a two-part series on the current state of Detroit’s workforce systems that further informs investments and helps aligns resources to support job growth in the city.
The hospitality industry has long been under the CSR microscope due to the sheer volume of operations, energy use and waste creation. Although towel and linen reuse programs may be the hallmark consumer-facing program of the industry, new efforts have emerged that make a huge impact not only on sustainability issues within the industry but also leave a social impact mark on the world.
Dover Publications is proud to announce that the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) supports the idea that coloring is beneficial as a self-care activity.
The RSF Social Impact Fellowship is missioned with growing the field of social finance, one cohort of thought leaders at a time. During their time at RSF, fellows work closely with the lending team to identify prospective borrowers, conduct due diligence, and structure loans.
I think I was about ten years old when Greek and Roman mythology first caught my attention. I’ve always enjoyed good stories, and when you set those stories in distant lands a long time ago and add in a dose of supernatural powers, I’m likely to get sucked in.
What’s on your list of the top stories of the year just behind us – 2015? Our Top Story this week is a look back at the Top 10 Business Stories of 2015 by Andrew Winston.
The form and composition of cities – their size, density, diversity and complexity – provide tremendous opportunity for understanding the drivers behind type 2 diabetes, thus making cities a focal point for developing interventions that can break the rising curve of diabetes. Getting to these solutions requires an understanding of how societal factors and individual behaviour associated with urban living influence an individual’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
CECP, a nonprofit that believes business can and should be a force for good in society, is pleased to announce the opening of the 2016 Giving in Numbers Survey, in association with The Conference Board. The survey is open online January 15, 2016 to March 31, 2016 to companies with revenue of US $2 billion or more, including companies not yet affiliated with CECP.
In honor of its broad-based efforts to partner with underserved local communities to improve health, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the recipient of the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service, one of the most esteemed community service honors in healthcare.
David Crane, until recently CEO of NRG Energy, has been named Editor at Large at GreenBiz Group, the media and events company focusing at the intersection of business, technology and innovation.
American Standard Heating & Air Conditioning, a leader in home comfort products and a brand of Ingersoll Rand (NYSE: IR), brings to the International Builders Show (IBS) an expanded lineup of heating and cooling systems and technologies, including its new Gold S9VS family of furnaces, the most advanced line of furnaces it has ever designed.
Trane, a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and services and a brand of Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR), showcases its most highly advanced furnace platform in a quarter century - the new S-Series Furnace - along with a range of reliable and efficient products for residential replacement and builder applications at the International Builders’ Show (IBS), booth C6531, today through Jan. 21.
With the launch of its newly revised DRINKiQ.com, Diageo is advancing its commitment to give consumers greater transparency and help them to make more informed choices about alcohol as part of a balanced lifestyle.
AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
SCS is working to advance climate accounting and reporting based on the latest climate science to help stabilize climate below temperature thresholds...
This year marked the 20th anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Katrina, one of the worst, deadliest and most costly natural disasters to ever...
Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...
The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
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...
AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
