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Environment

Whirlpool Corporation: Why Composting Matters

Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Brad Ziegler

On Memorial Day weekend, people across the United States take time to thank those who serve and remember those who lost their lives while serving. D-Backs reliever Brad Ziegler makes it a year-round mission to honor servicemen and servicewomen.

Health & Healthcare

Raising Awareness of Melanoma in Farmworker Communities

The American Academy of Dermatology has designated May as National Melanoma Skin Cancer Prevention Month to raise awareness about skin cancer and increase the chances of early detection and treatment. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation supports innovative community-based programs that address inequities in cancer treatment, care and support for low income and medically underserved populations.

Innovation & Technology

Utilities Discover a New Era of Engagement as the Focus Shifts to the ‘Customer of One’

Utilities are entering a new era of customer engagement, spawned by the growing connected device market. To be successful and sustainable, utilities should focus on creating a simple and personalized dialogue with each customer – a concept that could be described as the “Customer of One.”

Energy

Avista Engages Young Women in Pizza, Pop and Power Tools Career Event

Recently, Avista participated in a local event called Pizza, Pop and Power Tools aimed at engaging young women in middle school and helping them explore different apprentice, technical and trade career paths. At the event, nearly 200 attendees experienced hands-on projects related to a particular trade.

Social Impact & Volunteering

CSX Urges Caution Around Railroad Tracks During Summer Travel Season

As AAA projects the highest Memorial Day weekend travel rate since 2005, and schools around the country begin to release their students to the freedom of summer vacation, CSX (Nasdaq: CSX) and its employees remind drivers and pedestrians to exercise extreme caution around railroad tracks.

Education

Sodexo Teams with Atlanta Public Schools in Support of Innovative Garden Program

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, is participating in a school garden-based learning program through its Sodexo-Jackmont partnership with Atlanta Public Schools (APS). The District Grown Gardens Initiative expands the taste for healthy locally grown produce and knowledge about food origins while creating a community that values healthy eating.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Versaic Awarded Second Patent on its Flexible Platform Design

Environment

Darden-Audubon Partnership Is Not Just for the Birds

Researchers from Audubon Florida’s Everglades Science Center in Tavernier are working hard to restore Florida Bay, the 800 square miles of water between the southern end of Florida’s mainland and the Florida Keys. Darden pitched in by donating money toward the purchase of a new research boat

Health & Healthcare

K-C Scientist Invited to White House Event on Microbes

Innovation & Technology

A Growing Problem (About Shrinking): Information in a Post-Moore's World

See how researchers at Hewlett Packard Labs are re-envisioning Moore's Law.

Energy

Germany Launches €17 Billion Energy Strategy

Earlier this month, Sigmar Gabriel – Germany’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy – announced a new strategy aiming to increase energy efficiency in Germany.

Research, Reports & Publications

BT Report Reveals How Putting Purpose First Brings Business Benefits and Helps Customers, Society and the Environment

The latest Delivering our Purpose report from BT shows how putting sustainability at the heart of the business is delivering against the company’s ambitious 2020 goals.

Energy

Solar Installations Gain From Strategic Alliance of Overland Contracting Inc. and Schletter Inc.

New alliance combines solar mount innovator Schletter Inc. and subsidiary of global engineering and construction company Black & Veatch to serve growing solar PV market.

Events, Media & Communications

Giving Back to Austin Through the LIVESTRONG Challenge

As part of Team LIVESTRONG, I’m making a difference in the fight against cancer. I’ve joined with other people around the globe and across different events to raise money for the LIVESTRONG Foundation at the LIVESTRONG Challenge this October.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Jackie Bradley Jr., Craig Kimbrel, Matt Barnes and Teammates Share Field with Special Olympics and Nashoba Learning Group Athletes in Boston

Players from the Red Sox and Rockies helped kids from Special Olympics Massachusetts and the Nashoba Learning Group enjoy a day on the ball field on Wednesday.

Matt Barnes, Craig Kimbrel and Travis Shaw of the Red Sox and Jake McGee and Justin Miller of the visiting Rockies headlined a Players Trust City Clinics event at the Tufts University field for nearly 100 participants from Nashoba Learning Group, which provides individualized education, training and intervention services for students with autism.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Domtar's Sustainability Forestry Principles Featured in Corporate Responsibility Magazine

Pulp & Paper Division President Mike Garcia met with CR Magazine at GreenBiz 2016 after his session on “A Collaborative Approach to Sustainable Forestry Management.”

Diversity & Inclusion

Best Practices and Pitfalls of Diversity Initiatives

Now, more than ever, Corporate America embraces Diversity and Inclusion (“D&I”) as a business imperative.

Health & Healthcare

Toilets Change Lives Expands to India

Naina aged 13, no longer has to wait for 8 hours to reach home before she can use a clean, safe toilet and does not miss school during her periods any more. Bhaskar, having stumbled over broken tiles and pot holes would shamefully resort to using the shrubs outside his school. Not anymore, because his school toilet is now repaired and well lit-up. Naina and Bhaskar both study in government schools where children suffered innumerable difficulties and indignities in not being able to access safe and clean toilets.

Events, Media & Communications

Hello Columbus – Sustainability Lunch & Learn June 21st

I’m heading to Columbus, Ohio, for the official opening of Arrow’s newly automated facility for processing electronics at end of life.

Social Impact & Volunteering

600 Volunteers, 1 Day and a Year of Holidays

AT&T joined Give Kids the World Village to host a volunteer day in Orlando.

Research, Reports & Publications

Corporate Environmental, Social, and Quality Achievements Highlighted in SCS Global Services’ Latest Annual Report

Millions of acres of forestland and agricultural crops worldwide, thousands of business and consumer products, and a diverse range of companies and organizations earned recognition for environmental and social achievements from third-party certifier SCS Global Services (SCS) in 2015. The SCS Annual Report, published earlier this month, shines the spotlight on steps being taken in the public and private sectors across a wide swath of industries to reduce environmental impacts, improve working conditions, and assure product quality.

Education

Knowledge Transfer is Key to Developing Global Education Expertise

In 1953, Winston Churchill said: “All the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.” Over the years, eminent scholars and educators have echoed Churchill’s sentiments: If you don’t know history, you are condemned by ignorance to repeat, rather than learn from, the lessons of the past. The World Affairs Council-Washington, DC (WAC-DC) advocates a liberal arts education approach to help prepare teachers and students to be ‘global citizens’ in our diverse, multi-cultural and interconnected world.

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