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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Nominations Now Being Accepted for the 2022 Responsible CEO of the Year Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award

3BL Media is proud to announce that nominations are now being accepted for 2022 Responsible CEO of the Year Awards.

Green Infrastructure

Trane Technologies Healthy Spaces Podcast Season 2 Episode 6: The (Bus) Ride to Efficient and Equitable Cities

People depend on mass transit to make life work. In this episode of Healthy Spaces with Trane Technologies, we discuss mass transit’s opportunity to positively influence community and environmental health with Jared Schnader of CALSTART.

Education

CNH Industrial Employees Engage Community Through STEM@Work

CNH Industrial brand New Holland Agriculture opened the doors to its New Holland campus in November to 80 high school students as part of the STEM@Work series

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CNBC JUST 100: Doing the Right Thing for Our Communities, People and Planet

Hershey recognized as one of America’s Most JUST Companies for the third consecutive year.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ecolab Named One of America's Most JUST Companies

Ecolab, the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services, has again been named one of the country’s Most JUST Companies for its commitment to stakeholders and environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.

Health & Healthcare

Illumina Partners With Agendia to Expand Genomic Testing in Breast Cancer Care

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced a multi-year partnership with Agendia N.V., a world leader in precision oncology for breast cancer, to co-develop in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests for oncology testing. The partnership is intended to advance the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) for decentralized oncology testing and aligns with Illumina's approach to IVD partnerships in oncology. Agendia joins Illumina's growing portfolio of more than 30 IVD partners developing over 40 sequencing-based solutions for cancer prognosis, therapy selection and other applications.

Energy

Diode Ventures Launches Large-Scale Renewable Energy, Data Infrastructure Partnership in South Korea

The Republic of Korea runs on several energy-intensive industries, but a lack of sufficient natural resources means that Asia's fourth-largest economy is forced to import nearly all its energy even as it works toward aggressive net-zero goals.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Record Year for Verizon Frontline Public Safety Technology Deployments

A year of unique challenges, 2021 saw the Verizon Response Team deploy more than 1,000 times to just over 700 communities across the country.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Dennis Papilion to Helm WSP USA's Industry-Leading Environment Business

Dennis Papilion has been hired as president of the Earth & Environment (E&E) business line at WSP USA, a leading environmental, engineering and professional services consultancy. Papilion assumed his executive role on Jan. 10.

Diversity & Inclusion

Lenovo Sparks National Effort to Increase Diversity of Patent Holders in Tech

Efforts to increase diversity in a corporation are not new, and the payoff of creating a diverse and inclusive workforce has been shown time and time again.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bonnie Wongtrakool, Global Head of ESG Investments and Portfolio Manager at Western Asset Management, co-founds the California Chapter of the Bloomberg Women's Buy-Side Network

With the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Network seeks to increase female representation in portfolio manager and other senior-level investment industry positions through education, mentoring and networking opportunities.

Health & Healthcare

Alkermes Highlights Ongoing Investigational Immuno-oncology Clinical Trials

Alkermes is committed to researching and developing potential new cancer treatment options that may help address unmet patient needs.

Diversity & Inclusion

Increasing Women's Representation in Cybersecurity

NortonLifeLock and NASSCOM Foundation in India partner on the Cyber Security Skills Development Initiative for Women. The program is designed to create greater opportunities for female engineering grads by equipping them with in-demand job skills.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Why Work at Acre?

Three members of the Acre US team have been waxing lyrical about why they joined the market leader in sustainability and safety recruitment and the impact it has had on their career.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Musim Mas Leads in Palm Oil Sector at the Largest Sustainability & Environmental Awards in Indonesia: PROPER Awards 2021

Musim Mas Group achieved 11 Green PROPER Awards in 2021 – the highest number of PROPER Awards for a palm oil company, representing results that are “beyond the environmental compliance criteria.”

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Circular Economy at Owens Corning: Working to Reduce Our Environmental Impact in Manufacturing and Transportation

Raw materials, waste, energy, and emissions are minimized through innovative design to reduce waste and energy consumption. See how we’re optimizing sustainability each step of the way.

Social Impact & Volunteering

First Responder Virtual Reality Training: No Risk, All Reward

Pellston Public Schools recently purchased virtual reality (VR) fire and law enforcement training tools. The equipment brings some real-life experience to the classroom—without the real-life risk attached to it.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

IWBI Closes Out 2021 With Continued Growth of Membership Program

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is pleased to announce new organizations that have joined its membership program, an expanding program that offers commercial benefits, as well as brand visibility and networking opportunities.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: At the Beach

Coastal habitat degradation is currently a contributor to global warming, but it doesn’t have to stay that way. If we prioritize the conservation, management, and regeneration of coastal ecosystems, we can turn that ship around.

Innovation & Technology

How Algorithms and Algorithmic Bias Shape Our Lives at Work

From hiring and promotion to scheduling, algorithms play an essential role in analyzing data for decision-making or automating processes.

Health & Healthcare

Abbott Announces Future of Biowearables at Consumer Electronics Show

Making CES history, Abbott presented a keynote at the most influential tech event in the world, the first healthcare company ever to do so.

Research, Reports & Publications

Georgia-Pacific: Sustainable Outcomes That Benefit Society

The role of business in society is to help people improve their lives by providing products and services they value more highly than their alternatives, and to do so responsibly while consuming fewer resources.

Environment

Bayer Invites Global Researchers to Submit Novel Crop Protection Compounds Through New Testing4Ag Program

Bayer today announced the launch of Testing4Ag, a new program which allows research scientists to submit novel chemistries to Bayer for testing in hopes of identifing potential new modes to control fungal diseases, insect pests, or weeds.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Tetra Tech Wins 2021 SAME Large Business Award

The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) selected Tetra Tech as the recipient of its 2021 SAME Large Business Award.

Sustainable Development Goals

Understanding Triple-Bottom-Line Value

The late eighties and early nineties were a watershed period for our global society.

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