Olympic hockey player Hugo Inglis from New Zealand, Olympic rugby sevens player Kevin Wekesa from Kenya, the National Olympic Committee of the Netherlands and the International Biathlon Union have been named the winners of the IOC Climate Action Awards 2025.
Pope Leo XIV has sent “warm greetings” ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, saying he hopes “healthy competition will contribute to building bridges between cultures and peoples” and promote welcoming, solidarity and peace.
Across industries, engineers often begin the process of developing new products with a simple yet important question: How can I make this?
Answering that question requires a significant investment of time and resources and leads to many design and testing cycles.
While we often look to the sky for climate solutions - like wind turbines and solar panels - one of the most powerful technologies is right under our feet. This World Soil Day, we celebrate more than just the ground we walk on, but it’s un-canny capability to store CO2.
With seven days to go to the Opening Ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Annalena Baerbock, issued a solemn appeal urging all Member States to uphold the Olympic Truce.
Bath & Body Works is fortunate to be a brand whose products are enjoyed by customers worldwide, and it’s an honor to donate products in moments when people need them most.
Sustainability rarely took center stage at Davos this year. Instead, it quietly delivered by playing an implicit and influential role in most conversations throughout the week.
Famed for their smiles, willingness to help and their Olympic spirit, Olympic volunteers help to make special Games memories for the athletes, fans and officials that they encounter in their different roles.
For the third year in a row, Idealist surveyed their communities of hiring managers and job seekers to better understand the state of work and job seeking in the U.S. nonprofit sector.
Many of us remember the iconic scene from Disney’s The Lion King where Mufasa teaches Simba about the “circle of life:” a powerful metaphor illustrating the interconnectedness of all living beings and the delicate balance of nature.
At Quest, we process 157 million test requests annually. Transporting those samples requires every car and plane in our fleet. We continually look to make small, green changes that can have a big impact.
In seeking to improve health around the world, we strive to make the best use of Pfizer's resources — our people, products and funding — to help build health care capacity and expand access to medicines.
Poverty and the unsustainable use of land often go hand in hand for forest dependent communities across the developing world, leading to severe forest degradation and eventually forest clearance. In such areas, the development of stable livelihoods is arguably one of the most important aspects in the transition of a population from one depending on small scale shifting agriculture, to a cash economy that can co-exist within areas set aside for conservation purposes.
The healthcare industry has changed irrevocably and hospital c-suites are grappling with new responsibilities as well as the complexities of creating a new continuum of care.
The impact investment community continues to grow and the need for increased capital to fund sustainability based investments is at an all-time high. Investors are searching for a way to align their financial returns with their impact objectives.
Last week, outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland hosted 25 of Africa’s most talented, emerging leaders at its Stratham, NH headquarters to share the company’s values-driven approach to business. Each of the entrepreneurs is a recipient of the prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship program of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) that empowers young people through academic coursework, leadership training and networking.
The winning designs in an innovative housing competition Re-defining Home: Home Today, Home Tomorrow were announced today by AARP, AARP Foundation, Home Matters and the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation, a founding supporter of the Home Matters movement. The goal of this first-of-its-kind nationwide competition was to select the best plan for redesigning a typical home so that it would enable people to continue living there through every stage of their life.
Secretary of State John Wobensmith is pleased to announce that America’s Charities has been selected as the 2016 contractor for the State’s Maryland Charity Campaign (MCC). The MCC allows State employees and retirees an opportunity to donate to nearly 1,000 eligible charities.
Sodexo, the world leader in Quality of Life Services, announced today that all of its directors of facility management (FM) in the K-12 schools it serves across the U.S. have completed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Master Class Professional Training Series.
GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra believes companies can serve society by reducing environmental impact and strengthening communities where they operate. She recently delivered a commencement address at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Here are a few soundbites that reinforce her commitment to sustainability.
I recently attended the Aspen Institute Business & Society Leaders Forum June 5-8 in Aspen, Colorado. The Forum which meets multiple times a year is part of a policy program at the Aspen Institute designed to bring together business leaders to reflect and strategize on global issues, risks and opportunities at the intersection of business and society. The group’s primary focus is on sustainability.
PepsiCo, thePepsiCo Foundation, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are proud to announce the renewal of their five-year, private-public partnership (PPP) aimed to spur social and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Exciting news: we announced the National Park Foundation’s 2016 Find Your Park Expedition!
That means that an adventure to Yosemite and a variety of national parks in the San Francisco Bay Area awaits eight lucky millennial online influencers.
While you may be familiar with the expedition from last year, thought you might appreciate this little refresher.
Twenty four employees from various locations within Whirlpool Corporation's EMEA region came together with Habitat for Humanity Poland to renovate an attic and build social rental apartments for at risk youth. Whirlpool has supported the project by realizing the Polish version of the global campaign "Every Day, Care".
The international community committed in 2015 to the most ambitious global agenda to date – the Sustainable Development Agenda – aiming to end poverty and ensure prosperity, peace and a sustainable planet for all by 2030.
In 2015, Xylem created enterprise-wide Safety Excellence Awards to recognize sites across all our businesses that achieved excellent safety performance.
They come from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Gambia, Pakistan, and Iraq. Some of them fled their homeland only recently, while others applied for asylum in Germany quite some time ago.
Leading an active lifestyle is essential to maintaining everyday wellness. While staying healthy can seem hard during those early morning swims or late night jogs, sometimes a change of scenery provides the extra inspiration you need to power through, be it a stroll through a beautiful park, an organized walk or passing a bike stand on your way to work. When communities have access to resources that encourage activity, they have the opportunity to become healthier together.
Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) has released its 19th annual Corporate Sustainability Report, providing a comprehensive look at the company’s strategy and performance on safety, environmental, social and governance programs and initiatives. It is available online at http://www.hess.com/sustainability.
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