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Education | PNC Financial Services Group

PNC Volunteers Bring Basic Financial Knowledge to New Volunteer Opportunity

For about two years now, the PNC Center for Financial Education (CFE), an effort led by Community Development Banking, has been collaborating with community-based nonprofits to offer financial education to individuals, first-time homebuyers and small businesses.

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Green Infrastructure

Paul Scialla: The Man Behind the Mission to Disrupt Real Estate Through Wellness

Disrupting a $180-trillion asset class is no small task, but that’s exactly what Paul Scialla, founder and CEO of New York-based developer Delos, has spent the past seven years of his life working to achieve. It started when Scialla began noticing the green building trend in real estate, wondering why there wasn’t a ‘well building’ trend focused on human health.

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Environment

VIDEO | Helping Restore Local Heritage on Long Island

In this final installment in the Water Positive docuseries commissioned by The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation, National Geographic photographer Andy Mann captures the fight to preserve the close-knit fishing communities along Long Island’s north shore.

Diversity & Inclusion

PWER Portfolio ‘Walks the Walk’ of Women’s Financial Inclusion

In the past 18 months, BNY Mellon has issued bold calls for gender inclusion, offering research to inspire financial markets to boost economic participation by women worldwide. Now a new wealth management initiative called the PWER Portfolio is putting some of those ideas into action. PWER—an acronym for “promotion of women’s engagement and representation”—is built on a growing body of research showing that companies with diverse gender leadership tend to perform better.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Forget the City. These Millennials Are ‘Rethinking Rural’

When Madeline Moore was 22 and wanted to open her own bakery, she chose not to follow her friends who left her hometown of Long Beach, Washington, to launch their careers in larger, urban areas. Instead, Moore moved to Chinook, Washington, a 1-square mile spot in Pacific County near her hometown. Chinook’s population is small — only about 450 people live there — but it’s also the only place Moore thought she could be successful.

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Energy

Cisco’s Bangalore Campus Now Powered by Solar

I am very excited to announce that Cisco’s Bangalore campus is now using solar power generated by two new offsite solar installations located in Karnataka, India. Cisco recently signed two solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) that will collectively deliver 85,000 megawatt-hours of clean, renewable electricity every year to the local electric grid where our Bangalore campus is located.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Consumers Energy Receives National Recognition for Sixth Time as ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year

Consumers Energy is being honored for the sixth time in seven years for its work to reduce energy waste with the ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award.

Research, Reports & Publications

NRG Releases 2017 Sustainability Report, Continues Its Best-in-Class Reporting

NRG Energy Inc. has released its 2017 Sustainability Report, providing key updates on NRG’s sustainability objectives, milestones and accomplishments.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Global and Local Leaders Take Stock of Business Progress Towards Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Today, the United Nations Global Compact and Global Compact Network Argentina concluded their two-day event in Buenos Aires, Making Global Goals Local Business – Argentina. Nearly 600 local and global leaders from business, finance, civil society, Government, Global Compact Local Networks and the UN attended the event, organized to underscore the impact of multi-stakeholder partnerships and responsible business action in support of the UN Global Goals.

Research, Reports & Publications

INFOGRAPHIC: BAT's Business Model and Value Chain

At the centre of our business is the manufacturing and marketing of high-quality combustible tobacco products and potentially reduced-risk products – comprising Next Generation Products (NGPs), like vapour products and tobacco heating products (THPs), alongside oral tobacco products like snus and moist snuff.

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Media & Communications

Tetra Tech Releases Annual Sustainability Report Card and Announces Membership in UN Global Compact

Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced that it released its annual Sustainability Report Card in observance of Earth Day. Each year Tetra Tech reports its progress towards increasing sustainability in its projects, across its operations, and in the community. The Company measures 27 metrics across a suite of categories, including Health & Safety, Human Resources, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Improvements were recorded in 20 out of 27 metrics tracked.

Diversity & Inclusion

INTERVIEW: Cui Wang Ph.D: Microbiology Science Team For MARS

A few weeks ago, MARS INC. contacted me, asking me to interview four of their Women in STEM.* Over the next few weeks, their interviews will be posting one by one. This interview is with Cui Wang, who works in the Global Food Safety Center for MARS in Beijing.

Innovation & Technology

Inventions, Innovations and Ideas in the Workplace: Communication

Communication is key to a thriving, effective workplace. Without the proper communication channels, employees are unable to share information or adequately express themselves, which can hinder productivity and negatively impact office morale.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Calor Gas Launches Its Responsible Business Plan for 2018 - 2020

Calor Gas has launched its Responsible Business Plan for the next three years. This marks a change in name from the company’s previous sustainability strategies but it reflects the approach Calor’s always taken to sustainability, seeing it as something which encompasses a range of equally important elements. Calor has six brand values, around which they centre their business – Safe, Seamless, Local, Caring, Leading and Sustainable; the Responsible Business Plan encompasses all of these. The plan is based on the three pillars of Our People, Our Business and Our Planet. Essentially this means that Calor will look at the social, environmental and economic impacts of their activities, as well as the long term viability of the company. The Responsible Business Plan has also been developed to su

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VIDEO | WBCSD Reporting Exchange: Theory of Change

Curious about how to shift the financial system to reward the most sustainable companies? Better corporate reports are part of the solution. When companies don’t have the right information, they can’t make the right decisions. In an increasingly complex world, expectations for corporate reporting are changing. The complexity of corporate sustainability reporting has business and investors overloaded, making it tough to show how sustainability adds value. That’s where the Reporting Exchange comes in.

Environment

Freeport-McMoRan’s Bisbee Copper Queen Mine Wins National Reclamation Award

Freeport-McMoRan’s Bisbee Copper Queen Mine in Arizona was selected to receive the Interstate Mining Compact Commission’s (IMCC) 2018 National Reclamation Awards in the Noncoal Category.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SC Johnson's Dedication to Protecting Families Recognized by EcoHealth Alliance

In honor of its longstanding efforts to help protect consumers against mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and dengue fever, SC Johnson today announced it has received an award from EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on pandemic prevention and conservation. The award highlights the company’s ongoing commitment to provide donations and educational materials across the globe to families most at risk.

Education

Ziploc® Brand Honors Teachers as Super Heroes with #MoreThanATeacher

Ziploc® brand is redefining what it means to be a super hero and honoring teachers around the country. In celebration of National Superhero Day April 28 and National Teacher Day May 8, Ziploc® brand is unmasking a new initiative, #MoreThanATeacher, which calls upon everyone to thank the real-life super heroes among us – teachers – by helping to provide resources to empower teachers and encourage students and the public to recognize the heroic impact they have on our lives.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions Stores Raise Over $1 Million for City of Hope’s Research and Treatment for Childhood Cancers

City of Hope’s annual Kids 4 Hope program, in partnership with Albertsons Companies Foundation, Vons Foundation and Pavilions Foundation, has raised over $1 million to support research and treatment for pediatric cancers.

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Energy

Opportunities and Challenges in the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) Program

This will be a hot summer for solar and storage developers in Massachusetts as the Commonwealth kicks off its SMART program, providing tiered incentives to promote solar with an additional kicker if there is storage attached. It’s an exciting program—the first of its kind outside of California, and one of the first ever in the U.S. to promote energy storage coupled with community solar (direct contracts between solar arrays and residents).

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Research, Reports & Publications

Act Responsibly. Enable Sustainability.

It was a great way to wrap up the year: winning the German Sustainability Prize in December of 2017 for our holistic sustainability management approach. The deciding factor for the jury was our partnership-based supplier management and how our core business is contributing to sustainable development. With services such as cloud computing and "plug & play software" we help our customers save energy and resources and reduce their carbon footprint.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The “Working Poor” Are One Crisis Away From Homelessness

Did you know that in Central Florida, 1 in 6 people are food insecure? Yes, in America! Over 40% of families in Central Florida are classified as “working poor”. The “working poor” are one crisis away from homelessness.

Energy

Makeup Lessons With an Automaker

Our vision includes a world with zero emissions. While we have made great progress in improving energy efficiency at our global operations, we can’t get there alone. It’s important that we work together both internally and with other energy efficiency leaders to identify new opportunities for improvement and realize our goals.

Diversity & Inclusion

Going From Ingredients at Nestlé to Hurricane Response in Houston in Two Days

For most of us, balancing life and career can be a challenge. Now imagine that you’re not just balancing one career, but two: life as a First Sergeant in the Air Force, being called up for disaster response, along with a civilian career working to perfect ingredients at Nestlé. What happens when a hurricane hits?

Jessica has lived this incredible challenge and is a perfect example of why, at Nestlé, we love hiring and working with veterans and military personnel. We believe that skills learned in the military can be incredibly valuable in the civilian workplace — not to mention the integrity and perseverance gained from military service.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Celebrating Our Millionth Volunteer

On Saturday, April 21, we celebrated our 17th Comcast Cares Day – and surpassed our millionth volunteer since this amazing company tradition began in 2001. Giving back to the communities where we live and work is at the core of our Comcast NBCUniversal culture, and Comcast Cares Day is our way of recognizing our employees’ commitment to improving communities each and every day.

To mark this major milestone, we tracked down our one millionth volunteer – and her name is Kyeshia Bates, a Comcast employee for seven years who works on our fulfillment team just outside of Detroit.

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Energy

Green Mountain Energy Customers Avoid 8.6 Billion Pounds of CO2 in 2017

Every month is Earth Month for the customers of Green Mountain Energy Company. By choosing cleaner electricity and carbon offset products, Green Mountain’s customers avoided more than 8.6 billion pounds of CO2 in 2017. Since its inception in 1997, Green Mountain customers have collectively avoided a total of 63 billion pounds of CO2. That’s like taking 6.8 million cars off the road for a year, or planting 7.5 million trees.

Doubling down on its mission to change the way power is made, all of Green Mountain’s commercial offerings will be 100% renewable moving forward, making it the first electricity supplier for commercial businesses to take this step.

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