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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Vistra's TXU Energy Donates $100,000 to Texas Food Banks as Pandemic Strain Continues

Vistra's flagship retail electricity brand, TXU Energy, today announced it is committing $100,000 to support Texas food banks, still working through soaring demand and resetting logistics due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Energy

How Can Regulations Reduce F-gas in Power Networks?

With this realization have come strict measures to help limit the release of SF6 into the atmosphere. These include careful accounting of the production and distribution of SF6 as well as limits on its use.

Responsible Production & Consumption

CNH Industrial India Lets the Train Take the Strain, Reducing Road Congestion and Ensuring the Supply of Agricultural Tractors

CNH Industrial India has emerged as the first company in India to export 100 agricultural tractors to Bangladesh in an inaugural run of a freight train from the Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Dadri, India which started on September 2.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

VIDEO | Mohawk Offers a "Virtual Hug" to Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walkers

On the first day of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Mohawk Flooring team, a Susan G. Komen 3-Day National Series Sponsor, has a very special video message for the 3-Day community of virtual walkers.

Diversity & Inclusion

Trailblazer Takeaways: 'Just Mercy' Author Bryan Stevenson on Achieving Equal Justice

Recently, T-Mobile employees tuned in for a livestream conversation between EVP of T-Mobile for Business Mike Katz and Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).

Environment

Ceres Set to Launch New 10-Year Action Plan for Sustainable Business Leadership

Global sustainability threats – from the climate crisis to water scarcity to racial, gender and workplace inequality and inequity – are disrupting global operations and supply chains, destabilizing financial markets, and causing widespread human and economic suffering.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Keep Ghana Beautiful Receives In-kind Support From US National Nonprofit

Keep Ghana Beautiful announces the receipt of generous in-kind support of laptops and a projector from KAB to aid its community and school outreach efforts.

Innovation & Technology

Stanley Black & Decker Celebrates Third Annual Maker Month Focused on Empowering Skilled Workers & Tradespeople

The campaign will feature several new initiatives, including a “31 Faces of Makers” social campaign, a DEWALT® and STANLEY Security scholarship program, and a new Stanley Black & Decker Vocational Leadership Program.

Environment

Forests as a Natural Climate Solution

How we manage forests is a critical, yet often overlooked, solution in the fight against climate change. Improvements to land stewardship could cost-effectively avoid 11 gigatons of CO2 emissions per year, or 1/3 of the mitigation needed to meet global climate commitments.

Energy

Alliant Energy Reaches Milestone, Completes 1000 MW of Wind in Iowa

Alliant Energy announces completion of its plan to add 1,000 megawatts (MW) of wind production in Iowa, several months ahead of schedule and within budget.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Impact of COVID-19 on a Company: 6 Questions for the Chief Financial Officer of Johnson & Johnson

When you're the CFO of a company, you have a holistic view of how a pandemic can touch every aspect of a business, especially when it's a healthcare company. So we posed inquiring mind questions to Joe Wolk about what the past eight months have been like for him at the financial helm of the company—via a Zoom interview.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

UnitedHealth Group's Diverse Scholars Initiative

Environment

BIER Stakeholder Spotlight: Hugh Share

Welcome to our series aimed at spotlighting the individual leaders within BIER member companies and stakeholder organizations.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Whole Planet Foundation and Microfinance Partners Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis: Update

In March, I wrote the blog Whole Planet Foundation and Microfinance Partners Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis around how those living in poverty are already in a more vulnerable position, which can be further exacerbated during any external shock such as war, earthquakes, droughts or health crises.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Philip Morris International's Statement of Purpose Moves a Step Closer to Action & Sets Example for Others

The Business Roundtable’s Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation in August 2019 elicited many “nice start, what’s next?” reactions.

Diversity & Inclusion

How Business Roundtable Companies Have Responded to Four Critical Issues Advancing Racial Equity in the Workplace

Examples like Intel’s demonstrate exemplary commitment to diverse vendors, which contains both leading supplier diversity goals as well as reporting requirements to help their non-diverse suppliers to become more diverse.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Take Time To Volunteer

While the pandemic has disrupted our traditional in-person volunteer program, NortonLifeLock Volunteer Leaders have identified creative ways to engage employees in virtual volunteering.

Education

How EHS Professionals Design an Effective eLearning Program

eLearning. Online training. Webinars. Web-based training. Microlearning. Trainers today have a myriad of choices on how to deliver training. How do we ensure that our employees not only meet minimum requirements but also learn something useful?

Health & Healthcare

UnitedHealth Group is Working to Reduce The Total Cost of Care

UnitedHealth Group is working to reduce the total cost of health care with initiatives that strengthen transparency, engagement and incentives for consumers; optimize sites of care; apply value-based payment models and eliminate surprise billing.

Health & Healthcare

Biomimicry Innovation: change:WATER Labs

change:WATER Labs is changing the way humans process waste, and it all has to do with water. They recognized that if water is removed from human waste, all that's left is a compact solid that would be much easier to collect and sterilize.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Corporation Named a 'Best Place to Work for People With Disabilities' for Fourth Straight Year

For the fourth year in a row, Whirlpool Corporation has been named one of the best places to work for people with disabilities, as part of the 2020 Disability Equality Index (DEI).

Innovation & Technology

STEM Careers Coalition to Celebrate Manufacturing Day October 2nd

Members of the STEM Careers Coalition – the first-of-its-kind national STEM initiative powered by corporate leaders and anchored in schools by Discovery Education – are helping educators nationwide imbue today’s students with spirit of innovation during Manufacturing (MFG) Day.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Tersano's Patented SAO® Solution Meets Requirements to Kill the Novel Coronavirus on Hard Surfaces

Tersano, Inc. announced today its patented Stabilized Aqueous Ozone (SAO®) solution is compliant with the requirements established in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), to eliminate SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen that causes COVID-19. Tersano’s SAO solution kills over 99.99% of the MHV coronavirus within one minute.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

CSRHub's Bahar Gidwani Speaking at 2020 Wall Street Green Summit

Bahar Gidwani will be speaking on a panel about Sustainable Finance Megatrends at the 2020 Virtual Wall Street Green Summit.

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