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Diversity & Inclusion

Legg Mason Celebrates Pride Month

This year, Legg Mason celebrated its achievement of a 100% score on the Human Rights Coalition’s Corporate Equality Index and showcased its efforts to encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including participating in multiple Pride month activities.

Diversity & Inclusion

P&G Film, ‘THE LOOK’ Highlights Bias As Experienced by Many Black Men in America.

Bias is human but often results in unfair, unequal treatment that impacts us all.

Research, Reports & Publications

Infographic: HP Inc.'s 2018 Sustainable Impact Report Results

HP announces 2018 Sustainable Impact Report results that seek to create lasting, positive change for the planet, its people, and communities.

Education

Try, Try Again: Failure as a Building Block of STEM Success

I help teach my students, especially girls, not to give up if their first attempt doesn’t go as planned. Computational thinking teaches them that mistakes are not failures—it means there is room for growth and improvement in their work.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Records Set at Annual Comerica Shred Day in Southeast Michigan

Residents participating in the annual Comerica Bank Shred Day in Southeast Michigan securely shredded approximately 111,000 pounds of documents, which was the largest total collected at a single site by Iron Mountain over the 12-year history of Comerica’s metro Detroit Shred Day.

Social Impact & Volunteering

FCA Community: Creating a Strong Flow of ‘Stream Leaders’ in Michigan

Decked out in waders with a mission of finding macroinvertebrates and minnows in the Clinton River, FCA Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Lead Dave Jump gets knee deep with Bowers Academy high school students to create the next generation of “stream leaders.”

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Schneider Electric: It's Time for Climate Impact Disclosure

Our ambition is to help customers move faster towards a low-carbon economy. Increasingly, we believe that this is possible through demonstrating the positive impact of Schneider Electric’s offers on climate, and profit. This is why we have developed a conservative, robust and forward-looking methodology to calculate CO2 savings of offers over their lifetime.

Environment

BLOG | Tomorrow’s Water Stewards

Water is by far our world’s most precious natural resource. It’s critical to all living things, and while many people treat water like it is an endless supply, it’s not. Today, the world’s fresh water bodies are under pressure like never before, and pollution caused by nutrient runoff is an environmental crisis crippling our world’s most important waterways.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Freeport-McMoRan’s Climax-Area Community Investment Fund Awards over $300,000 in Grants

Climax Molybdenum recently awarded $300,400 to area nonprofits through the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation's 2019 Climax-Area Community Investment Fund.

Environment

The Lion King Protect The Pride with Cast Video

Join the cast of The Lion King in an effort to double the lion population by 2050 as part of Disney's The Lion King Protect the Pride campaign.​ Learn more at Disney.com/LionKingProtectThePride

Responsible Production & Consumption

How Timberland’s President Jim Pisani Is Putting Sustainability at the Top of His Agenda

It didn’t take long for Jim Pisani to understand Timberland’s vital role in nurturing the environment. Just two weeks into his stint at the Stratham, N.H.-based company in 2016, the global brand president was knee deep in the company’s eco-friendly initiative — getting his hands dirty transforming a vacant Bronx, N.Y., lot into a lush garden.

Research, Reports & Publications

HP Sets Industry-leading Recycled Content Target, Drives Progress to Create Lasting Sustainable Impact

Sustainable Impact is at the heart of HP’s reinvention journey, fueling the company’s innovation and growth, strengthening HP’s business for the long-term, and enabling the company to develop and deliver the best solutions for its customers.

Health & Healthcare

Takeda Selects Five New Partnerships for Annual Global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program, Supporting Disease Prevention to Improve Health in Developing and Emerging Countries

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) announced the addition of five partners to its Global CSR Program for 2019, which contributes to the long-term health of people through disease prevention and capacity building in developing and...

Environment

Why the DNC Doesn’t Want a Climate Debate — It Actually Makes Perfect Sense.

The Democratic party and the nominees are highly intelligent people, they know what’s happening to the climate, they know that climate change will have devastating consequences for their constituents, their country, and the planet as a whole. So why don’t they welcome the chance to showcase their candidates progressive ideas and further distinguish themselves as the party of the future?

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

477 Investors With USD $34 Trillion in Assets Urge G20 Leaders to Keep Global Temperature Rise to 1.5 Degrees Celsius

Investors from around the globe are urging world government leaders to step up ambition on climate change and enact strong policies by 2020 to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, including phasing out thermal coal power and pricing carbon. 477 investors with $34 trillion (USD) in assets, a record number of signatories, are behind the urgent call-to-action to limit average global temperature rise to no more than 1.5-degrees Celsius.

Green Infrastructure

Electric Vehicles And The Need For Public Charging Infrastructure

Electric vehicles (EV) have been available for some time, but adoption has always been too low to attract significant investment and displace the internal combustion engines (ICE) in a meaningful way. This time is different, though, as EVs are in the process of displacing a significant portion of the traditional ICE vehicle market, which presents interesting opportunities for Bechtel. There are several reasons why we think this time is different, and the intent of this post is to lay out a brief summary of our views of the EV market, the infrastructure needed to support that market, and the opportunities for Bechtel in this space. Finally, we’ll talk about what we’re doing to address the lack of EV charging infrastructure in North America.

Health & Healthcare

Making Changes Heard Around the Pilbara

Through our partnership with Telethon Speech & Hearing, we’ve helped to significantly reduce the number of harmful ear conditions among Aboriginal children, improving school readiness and engagement across the West Pilbara. Since our partnership began in 2011, the number of Aboriginal children under the age of seven affected by middle ear diseases in the Pilbara has dropped from 51% to 33%, an outstanding milestone that has produced meaningful impact. Almost 9,000 screenings have been conducted through the Chevron Pilbara Ear Health Program...

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Arrow Electronics Hosts Robotics Workshop for Local Girl Scouts

Arrow Electronics hosted a robotics workshop at its Centennial, Colo. headquarters to help local Girl Scouts in 4th and 5th grade earn their “Designing Robots” badge.

Diversity & Inclusion

The light at the ‘Center’ of LA’s LGBTQ community

As the U.S. marks the 50th anniversary of New York City’s Stonewall riots this June — and its role as a catalyst for the LGBTQ rights movement in America — it’s important to remember the significant place in LGBTQ history for another city located across the country: Los Angeles.

Environment

FPT Industrial: Cleaning the Seas and Fishing for Plastic

Raising public awareness of environmental protection and protecting our seas is essential. And the project "Fishing for Plastic" tries to give a concrete answer.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: That's One Classy Cephalopod

You would be smart to consider octopi for inspiration if you were a practicing biomimic – especially if the design question you are asking is “how would nature efficiently navigate confined aqueous spaces like the piping in municipal water systems?”

Research, Reports & Publications

Bridgestone Group’s Sustainability Report Details Environmental Success and Reports on Strengthened Sustainable Procurement Practices, Including Human Rights Protection

Today the Bridgestone Group published its Sustainability Report 2018-2019 highlighting strong progress toward its global commitment to help achieve a more sustainable society.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Carnival Corporation Named Among America's 100 Best Corporate Citizens

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest leisure travel company, was recently named among Corporate Responsibility Magazine's (CR Magazine) 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2019.

Environment

LA Galaxy Foundation Partners With Surfrider Foundation for Beach Cleanup

As part of AEG’s LA Galaxy Protect the Pitch sustainability program, more than 250 LA Galaxy fans, supporters and Herbalife24 Triathlon L.A. participants traveled to Venice Beach to partake in a beach cleanup with Surfrider Foundation, a global nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect and enjoy the world’s oceans and beaches, on Saturday, June 22.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

An Investor's Perspective on the Proposed Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance

Can stakeholders (regulators, policymakers and market participants) deliver a sustainable finance framework that serves the end-client well?

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