For decades, climate adaptation lived on the fringes of corporate strategy. It was typically addressed through insurance coverage, emergency protocols, and risk registers.
United Way of Greater Nashville announces it's been awarded a $300,000 grant from Wells Fargo to support the Nashville Financial Empowerment Center providing free, one-on-one financial counseling for debt reduction, credit building, saving and legacy planning for the community.
Every January, hundreds of Aflac sales leaders gather together to lay the foundation for what’s ahead for the year. It’s an event full of exciting energy and unforgettable moments. The most notable: a charitable auction that raised more than $870,000.
The most decorated Italian skier of all time and the first athlete in history to win a gold medal at three separate editions of the Olympic Winter Games, Deborah Compagnoni shares with Sylvain Bolt her special connection with the event
The NBA honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy each January, urging fans to live his message that "the time is always right to do what is right" through meaningful civic and community action.
For decades, climate adaptation lived on the fringes of corporate strategy. It was typically addressed through insurance coverage, emergency protocols, and risk registers.
Federal Express Corporation, one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, has expanded its zero-tailpipe emissions fleet with the addition of 17 electric trucks.
As the Olympic Winter Games return to Italy in 2026, with the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Torch Relay passing through the Piemonte region this week, it is a timely reminder of what hosting can deliver beyond the Closing Ceremony.
Inspiration pushes us beyond the horizon. Innovation carries us even further — to the skies, revealing a whole new world of possibility. A world where staying connected with loved ones becomes limitless.
As we move off of debating the science of climate change, but given that we’ve been largely ineffectual thus far at slowing global climate change, it’s time to focus on how organizations can make wiser decisions in this time of great uncertainty. Expert Mark Trexler is the subject of this very timely blog post based on a video interview of April 23rd, 2016 in Portland, Oregon.
Why might cities be the best place for social change to happen? Who better to answer this than Mark Watts, Executive Director of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40). C40 connects more than 80 of the world’s largest cities, where change can have impact and scalability. We talked to Mark about the connection between climate change and type 2 diabetes.
B-Healthy Wellness Meals created by Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, are helping Binghamton University reach its campus-wide wellness goals. B-Healthy is a Binghamton University initiative focused on the overall health and well-being of students, faculty and staff. Part of that focus is meeting the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) guidelines for college campuses.
On the heels of the historic signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, the nonprofit sustainability group Ceres will bring together 500 business, investor and nonprofit group leaders to discuss how leading businesses in key industries are responding to sustainability challenges and combating climate change threats on a rapidly warming planet.
In 2009, Bartosz Helfer was well into earning his bachelor’s degree in cognitive sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, one of the biggest universities in one of the largest cities in Poland.
One of the Common Impact initiatives that best exemplifies shared value is its program with the Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) business. The program offers a unique experiential learning and leadership development opportunity for WI’s senior level associates and delivers tangible, long-term impact for its nonprofit beneficiaries. In 5 years, the program has supported 78 of WI’s strongest talent and future leaders in their career development and yielded a community investment valued at $1,334,725.
Acronyms make it easier to remember new concepts. The term PESO – paid, earned, shared and owned -- was useful in remembering the new paradigm for PR pros and marketers seeking to reach key audiences with their content in a highly fragmented media environment.
The American Heart Association and Aramark are launching a new community engagement program in three key cities -- Philadelphia, Chicago and Houston -- as part of their Healthy for Life® 20 By 20 initiative to improve the diet and health of millions of Americans by 20 percent by the year 2020. The pilot program, taking place throughout the spring, will track and measure the impact of attitudes and behaviors of primarily single mothers or single heads of households responsible for food and meal decisions for their families.
Half of Latinos admit to using their smartphones to social network while driving. More than a quarter (28%) snap selfies or take photos. And nearly 7-in-10 (68%) text behind the wheel.
A Professional Engineer and MBA Graduate, Richard specializes in sustainability program planning with distinguishing expertise in energy supply-side management, facility demand-side improvements and business-wide carbon footprint reduction. With over 25 years of experience in utility plant operations across both commercial and industrial markets, he has a proven track record of lowering the total cost of energy while delivering maximum return on investment.
As it becomes ever more urgent to preserve the environment, a growing number of businesses are prioritizing sustainability. More than 50 companies around the world have pledged to work toward using 100% renewable energy to power their operations. Big technology corporations and traditional consumer brands alike are on their way to a low carbon footprint by turning to renewables to keep the lights on.
Student developers will stand alongside professionals at the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco today. The students, chosen from the five winners of the 2015 Samsung Mobile App Academy, made apps to address issues in their local communities. Winning apps include an interactive pill chart to incentivize children with serious illness to take their medication, a system for diagnosing pulmonary illnesses and a game to teach kids coding.
Republic Services announced today the addition of 40 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) solid waste collection trucks serving customers in Central Contra Costa County. The new CNG trucks replace older diesel-powered collection trucks, and bring the total number of natural gas vehicles operated by Republic in Contra Costa County to 123.
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is ranked 5th on the “Top 10 Regional Companies” list for diversity best practices, according to DiversityInc, one of the nation’s leading sources on workplace diversity management.
Last June Whirlpool Corporation broke ground on a wind farm near our Findlay, Ohio dishwasher plant and today it is fully operational. Through clean, renewable energy the turbines are expected to offset more than 20% of our on-site electricity consumption.
LG Electronics USA and Best Buy are wrapping up Earth Month by encouraging consumers to “Flip Your Fridge” with a nationwide awareness campaign and sweepstakes in cooperation with The Rachael Ray Show and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Former Arkansas County judge shares pipeline-incident experience with first responders across the U.S. as part of a regional town hall program hosted by the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and TransCanada.
CSRHub COO and Cofounder Cynthia Figge will be speaking at the Annual Impact Conference at Sustainatopia on Monday, May 2nd in San Francisco, California.
As a global outdoor lifestyle brand, Timberland has always been driven by a commitment to innovate and operate in an accountable and responsible manner – in terms of its products, the outdoors and the communities around the globe where it operates. As part of this commitment, the company today announced the establishment of rigorous environmental standards – Timberland Environmental Product Standards (TEPS) – across all Timberland product categories. The company also unveiled its 2015 CSR results, as well as new five-year performance targets against its core CSR pillars – product, outdoors and community.
TexProtects, the Texas Association for the Protection of Children – in partnership with Plano-based Alliance Data and its Epsilon business and the University of Texas at Dallas School of Engineering and Computer Sciences UT Design program – today unveiled the ZipRisk Map, a groundbreaking, interactive data tool that will help advocates and policy-makers across Texas identify the highest-risk areas in the fight to prevent and end child abuse.
As part of the Sodexo 2016 Future Chefs competition, today we are featuring Madysun Christensen. Madysun comes to us from Elk Run Elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is currently a 4th grader. For her healthy breakfast, Madysun is going to show us how to make what she likes to call a “Boil-in-a-bag Omelet.”
Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio, Gary Nabhan, has taken the fight to the corporate seed merchants through the local food movement and seed saving community. The Director of the Center for Regional Food Studies at the University of Arizona, Nabhan believes that a healthy food system is a biodiverse food system.
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