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Events, Media & Communications

The Ray’s Highway of The Future Experience at CONEXPO-CON/AGG

From March 10th through the 14th, The Ray is partnering with the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) to bring The Ray to CONEXPO-CON/AGG, North America’s largest construction trade show, in Las Vegas.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ON Semiconductor Makes Its Debut at GreenBiz 20

The GreenBiz Conference, held in Scottsdale, Arizona, claims to be “the premier annual event for sustainable business leaders” and in my opinion, they definitely deliver.

Events, Media & Communications

Qualcomm's Own Angela Baker Will be Speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's 10th Annual International Women’s Day Forum

What milestones will we, as a society, reach as we push towards a more gender-inclusive society? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 10th Annual International Women’s Day Forum will highlight the visionaries creating a better future for all.

Energy

FedEx and Chanje to Develop Groundbreaking Charging Infrastructure

Through an agreement with Chanje Energy Inc., the company plans to electrify 42 FedEx stations in California, making it one of the largest deployments of integrated charging infrastructure by a single commercial fleet to date.

Media & Communications

How the Private Sector Can Do Well by Doing Good

We live in a time of unprecedented growth and global prosperity. A middle class is emerging in China, India and elsewhere. Global poverty is at its lowest point in decades. Babies and children are growing up healthier, people are living longer...

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Stepping Up Our Work on Circularity

The circular economy is a natural extension of Cisco’s own business transformation. As a company, we are moving from product upgrade cycles to recurring cloud computing and a software-subscription model.

Environment

Driven to Tears: Stefanie Lemcke + Jim Parry

Do you ever find yourself sitting stuck in traffic with your thoughts moving from benign irritation with the sheer number of cars on the road, to a fixation upon humanity’s encroaching doom?

Health & Healthcare

As Cancer in Older People Increases, so Do the Challenges to Help Them Live Longer, Fuller Lives

Our multiyear When Cancer Grows Old™ initiative is intended to address the challenges of cancer and aging by collaborating with the global cancer community of advocates, healthcare providers and policymakers around the world to find solutions.

Environment

Effort to Save Burrowing Owls Goes Underground in Chino

When Brian Bielfelt had an opportunity to help build artificial burrows in Chino for burrowing owls, he jumped at the chance. “I’ve loved burrowing owls for a long time — since I was in third grade in Florida,” said the SCE staff biologist

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MetLife Named a Top Company for Executive Women

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that it has been named a top company for executive women by the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), in recognition of its efforts to identify, promote and mentor successful women.

Responsible Production & Consumption

The Goodyear reCharge Concept – A Renewable, Sustainable and 100% Biodegradable Tire

The Goodyear reCharge is a revolutionary self-regenerating concept tire that can adapt and change to meet individual mobility and sustainability needs.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono in 2020 and Beyond

Taproot Foundation is committed to making certain that pro bono service is an accessible and valuable resource across sectors.

Education

New Content From Discovery Education Educates Students on the Coronavirus, Encourages Civic Participation, Unlocks the Periodic Table, and More

Discovery Education – the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms – today announced the addition of hundreds of new assets to its award-winning digital services.

Health & Healthcare

Podcast: How Intelligence at the Healthcare Edge Saves Lives

Listen to Rich Bird, World Wide Industry Marketing Manager for Healthcare and Life sciences at HPE to learn how hospital care providers are using a combination of edge computing, AI, and Wi-Fi data networks to rapidly treat sepsis infections.

Education

Nurturing the Next Generation of Engineers

100 girls and young women from 6th through 12th grades gathered Keysight’s Santa Rosa, CA headquarters hosted our annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day event for six hours of fun, team-based learning. Read Keysight CTO, Jay Alexander's takeaway.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Ecocentricity Blog: Trash Turned Into Treasure

After taking a deep breath she smelled…nothing. If anything, it smelled like crisp, fresh, unpolluted air. She didn’t detect any unpleasant odors that she would have previously associated with composting.

Sustainable Development Goals

Public Eye: Emerging Trends and Top Priorities in Inclusive Business

Why is it so important to include non-traditional development actors, such as the private sector, in efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs)? What can they offer that an organization like UNDP can’t?

Sustainable Development Goals

Aflac Incorporated Unveils New Environmental, Social and Governance Website, Including 2019 ESG Report

Aflac Incorporated today announced that it has unveiled a new environmental, social and governance website highlighting the company’s commitment to ESG initiatives important to investors, employees and consumers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sodexo Named Top Company by the National Association for Female Executives on the Top 70 Companies for Executive Women List

Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company committed to improving Quality of Life, announced today that it has been named one of the 2020 NAFE Top Companies for Executive Women by the National Association for Female Executives.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Subaru Scores 100 Percent in 2020 Corporate Equality Index

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced that for the fourth year in a row, the automaker has received a perfect score of 100 percent on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI).

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Comprehensive ESG Backed by World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund

A report from Norges Bank Investment Management has called for businesses to improve metrics to ensure they disclose ‘relevant, quantitative and comparable information on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues’.

Sustainable Development Goals

Tetra Tech’s Lusaka Water Supply, Sanitation, and Drainage Project Team Wins Company’s 2019 Project Management Achievement Award

Tetra Tech believes in the loyalty, effort, and excellence of its employees and initiated its annual Excellence and Achievement Awards program to recognize individuals and teams for achievements that demonstrate best-in-class performance and service to the community.

Diversity & Inclusion

UPS Longitudes | Rethinking Supplier Diversity

This Longitudes blog post is an abridged Q&A with Kris Oswold, Director of Supplier Diversity at UPS and was originally featured in Business Equality Pride (BEQPride) magazine.

Events, Media & Communications

Ideagen February 2020 Catalyze Magazine - Global 100 Leaders and Launch of Ideagen® TV "Powered by Azure"

Download the February edition of Ideagen here

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Future of Print Is Seamless, Secure, and Better for the Planet

For printing to stay relevant to today’s hyper-mobile society, it has to evolve to do something more for people than simply getting their text and images from the digital world into the physical one. And HP knows how to do it.

Latest Campaigns

  1. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    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...
  2. Southwire Giving Back
    Our neighbors depend on us, just as we depend on them, so we are committed to improving the quality of life in the communities in which we work. At...
  3. Carbon Footprint
    We are accelerating our efforts to help build a low-carbon economy and avert the worst impacts of climate change. Our goal to reduce our GHG emissions...
  4. Environmental Sustainability
    As sustainability leaders, we implement our sustainability strategy across all company activities along the entire value chain, from raw materials to...
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  6. International Paper | HEALTHY & ABUNDANT FORESTS
    Vision 2030 Goal: Lead forest stewardship efforts globally
  7. Sustainability Report
    Our latest Sustainability Report highlights recent accomplishments and progress toward achieving goals in the environmental, social and governance...
  8. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  9. Kingfisher Around the World
    The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
  10. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...
  11. IWBI | WELL Building Standard
    Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...
  12. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  13. Green Mountain Energy Commitment to Sustainability
    At Green Mountain Energy Company, we share our customers’ commitment to the environment and sustainability. We are inspired by the success that we...
  14. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  15. GoDaddy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
    Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...