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Innovation & Technology | Logitech

Logitech’s One-of-a-Kind Accessible Gaming Rig

Two years ago, while awaiting surgery to address a unique medical condition, 12-year-old Daire Gorman desperately needed to find a new way to game.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Update to German Translation of GRI Standards

Updates to two versions of the GRI Standards – ‘GRI 303: Water and Effluents 2018’ and ‘GRI 403: Occupational Health and Safety 2018’ – have been translated into German.

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Energy

AEG's Vice President of Energy and Environment John Marler Named to Green Sports Alliance Board of Directors

AEG, the world leading sports and live entertainment company announced today that its vice president of energy and environment, John Marler, will join the board of directors of the Green Sports Alliance (GSA). The Green Sports Alliance is the leader in leveraging the market influence of sports to promote environmentally sustainable practices.

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Health & Healthcare

Physicians and AI Co-Piloting for Better Health

Every day, the healthcare industry processes massive amounts of data. To assess patients and provide treatments, doctors and physicians have to sift through it all, from patient history to genetic and environmental factors. But big data and technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) are changing how information is stored – the volume of it – and how it is shared and analyzed.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Tetra Tech Won Three Leonard Awards and the Visionary Award at the Quebec Consulting-Engineering Awards

The Association des firmes de génie-conseil (AFG), the association of engineering consulting firms of Quebec, held its 17th Edition of the Quebec Consulting-Engineering Awards, an event that highlights the province’s engineering experts and the best projects in the industry.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Scotiabank Supports Children in Latin America Through Fútbol

Internationally, we leverage fútbol as a means to encourage positive youth development. Through our Scotiabank Fútbol Club programs, we reach over 450,000 kids across Latin American and the Caribbean. One of these programs is Campeonato Infantil (Youth Championships and Leagues), which runs across Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay and reaches over 25,000 children on over 1,800 community teams.

Social Impact & Volunteering

New Online Platform Provides Social Change Organizations with a One-Stop Shop for Skills-Based Volunteering

Common Impact, a national nonprofit that designs and implements skills-based volunteer programs, today launched Capacity Commons, a new online platform to accelerate the adoption of skilled volunteerism for social sector organizations. Developed through support from the Charles Schwab Foundation, the new tool increases access to and effectiveness of skills-based volunteerism by helping organizations plan for, execute and evaluate the financial and social impact of their pro bono engagements.

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Innovation & Technology

Black & Veatch and Inflowmatix Join Forces to Meet Leakage Challenge

Against a challenging backdrop of increased water scarcity and service resilience, water companies in England and Wales have been tasked with achieving on average a 15 percent reduction in leakage by 2025. The result is the most ambitious leakage programme in 20 years. Success will require leading-edge, digitally-enabled network management of the kind pioneered by a new partnership between Black & Veatch and Inflowmatix.

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Research, Reports & Publications

ON Semiconductor’s 2018 Social Responsibility Report Integrates the People, Planet and Profit With the Comprehensive GRI

ON Semiconductor announces the release of its annual Corporate Social Responsibility report, marking the sixth year of this publication.

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Health & Healthcare

Uncovering Sickle Cell Disease

Every day, people endure the painful and life-threatening symptoms of sickle cell disease in the shadows because of fear, stigma,and isolation

Green Infrastructure

New Sydney Metro Northwest Stations Built Using 100% Responsibly Sourced Timber

Metro station canopies and multi-story parking façades recently completed as part of the Sydney Metro Northwest project have been constructed with 100% responsibly sourced timber, according to certification body SCS Global Services (SCS).

Environment

Nature-Inspired Water Leak Detection System Wins the 2019 $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize

Twenty percent of the world's clean pumped water is lost due to leaking pipes, and current technology cannot detect leaks accurately enough or early enough to prevent either water loss or major infrastructure damage. Startup company Watchtower Robotics is tackling this problem creatively and effectively, and today was awarded the 2019 $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize® for its efforts during the GreenBiz Circularity Conference. The prize is sponsored by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation and awarded annually to the top team in the Biomimicry Launchpad, an accelerator focused on nature-inspired solutions to global challenges.

Environment

Our Next Moonshot: Saving Earth’s Climate

Fifty years ago next month, the Apollo 11 lunar module touched down on the moon. It’s fair to say the crew never would have gotten there without MIT.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Highlights From Cross Sector Day at the Global Pro Bono Summit

How has the pro bono movement made an impact across sectors and around the globe? And how can we keep pushing the field forward? Pro bono experts from companies, nonprofits, and intermediary organizations all came together at the Global Pro Bono Summit—hosted by Taproot Foundation—to answer these questions and more.

Sustainable Development Goals

America’s Charities and SmartSimple Partner to Deliver New Cutting-Edge Employee Giving and Social Responsibility Solution

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global blueprint for helping organizations navigate the significant environmental, social, and economic challenges our world faces.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Sappi's Commitment to Reducing Global Environmental Footprint

At Sappi North America (SNA), we keep sustainability at the forefront of our operations. Together with the 2020Vision— Sappi’s global growth strategy—we use our sustainability goals program to set targets, initiate improvement actions, and monitor our commitment to progress. Our goals are reflective of the desires of our employees, customers, and investors.

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Energy

New Analysis: U.S. Power Sector Continues March Away From Coal

The U.S. power sector continues transitioning away from coal and toward zero-carbon energy resources, as the largest electricity producers continue to reduce air pollutant emissions and their corresponding contributions to climate change, according to a new analysis released today.

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Education

Inside the 2019 Cisco Live US Dream Team

It takes a special team of people to pull off Cisco Live US (CLUS) each year. As Cisco’s largest customer Cisco Live US attracts 28,000 of the industry’s top talent looking to propel their professional growth through in-person events, live broadcasts, and 7000 on-demand trainings centered around Cisco products, solutions, and services. It also attracts an additional 370,000 online attendees from around the world, creating a complex web of internet connections.

Energy

Solar, Wind, Batteries To Attract $10 Trillion to 2050, But Curbing Emissions Long-Term Will Require Other Technologies Too

Deep declines in wind, solar and battery technology costs will result in a grid nearly half-powered by the two fast-growing renewable energy sources by 2050, according to the latest projections from BloombergNEF (BNEF). In its New Energy Outlook 2019 (NEO), BNEF sees these technologies ensuring that – at least until 2030 – the power sector contributes its share toward keeping global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Digitally Forgotten: Why Digital Inclusion Matters For Your Organization

We are all vulnerable to being left behind by the progress of technology—unable to access the increasingly digital services and information we need to function. The digitally forgotten are already poorly catered for, and are often left out of policy and design decisions. However, this group has the most potential to benefit from technology.

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Diversity & Inclusion

OneWest Bank Serves as Presenting Sponsor of SaMo Pride and Celebrates Pride Month across Southern California

OneWest Bank, CIT’s Southern California retail bank division, today announced it will be the presenting sponsor of the inaugural year of SaMo Pride taking place in Santa Monica throughout June.

Research, Reports & Publications

Edison International Sustainability Report: 2018 at a Glance

At Edison International, our vision is to lead the transformation of the electric power industry toward a clean energy future. Through our subsidiaries, we distribute and generate electric power, as well as provide energy services and technologies, including renewable energy. Headquartered in Rosemead, California, Edison International is the parent company of Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation’s largest electric utilities...

Environment

Timberland Helps Reclaim the Horqin Desert

Over time, a region of lush grasslands in northern China suffered from overpopulation, overgrazing and the impacts of climate change to become the Horqin Desert which is now the size of Switzerland. Located in Inner Mongolia, the Horqin Desert began to have far-reaching impact, as agriculture suffered and sandstorms affected not only northern China but also Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Narrative “Greening of Business” Is a Joke But We’re Not Laughing

Going forward the concept of the “greening of business” should only be used as a storytelling tactic, a warning of just how desperate we had become that we believed the idea that business, unfettered with regulations could effectively address our global environmental and social challenges.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

4 Keys to a Frictionless Medical Affairs Grants Program

Medical affairs grant management is a highly complex, often fractured process. This video discusses four keys to creating a frictionless program that maximizes patient outcomes.

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Energy

Raquel Espada: "Sustainability is a Critical Factor in Any Company"

Raquel Espada is Vice President of Energy Services and Sustainability at Schneider Electric. In this interview, she outlines the company's sustainability strategy and the projects they are carrying out.

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