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Celebrating the Role of the Gopher Tortoises in Our Forest

The best way to celebrate Gopher Tortoise Day is to ensure there are more gopher tortoises across their natural range in the southeast United States.

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Leadership Spotlight: Q&A With Kim Frankovich, Global VP of Sustainability, Griffith Foods

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Subaru Ranked As Top Automaker in Forbes Best Brands for Social Impact for Third Consecutive Year

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An Olympic Homecoming: In 2021, IOC Session Returns to Athens, Where Olympic Legacy Stands Tall

As the IOC returns to Athens for its 2021 Session, let’s take a closer look at the legacy that the Olympic Games Athens 2004 created for the city and its people.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

New Leadership Team Driving Sappi Forward

2018 was a year of transformation for Sappi North America (SNA). We rebuilt a paper machine, developed an entirely new packaging line, helped launch exciting new brand positioning for our dissolving pulp product, and established a creative, passionate sustainability team to set the course for our future.

Diversity & Inclusion

CBRE Named One Of 2019's Best Employers For Women By Forbes

CBRE Group, Inc. is a Forbes 2019 Best Employer for Women based on an independent analysis by market research company Statista. More than 1,200 companies were evaluated and CBRE is the only commercial real estate firm to make the list.

Diversity & Inclusion

Smithfield Foods Sponsors Veteran Honor Flight to Nation’s Capital

The Smithfield Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Smithfield Foods Inc., announced today a $125,000 donation to the Midwest Honor Flight organization to sponsor 83 World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War veterans for an all-expenses-paid flight to visit the nation’s capital.

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Kimberly-Clark Doubles Down on Climate and Energy Goal, Aiming for 40% GHG Reduction by 2022

Kimberly-Clark published its 2018 Global Sustainability Report this week and marked the occasion with an aggressive new goal on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction, 40% absolute greenhouse gas emission reduction globally against its 2005 baseline. That’s twice its initial goal of 20% reduction by 2022 set out in late 2015.

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Carnival Cruise Line Partners With Clean the World to Assist in Global Soap Recycling Initiative

Yesterday, Carnival Cruise Line announced it is the first large-scale cruise operator to partner with Clean the World.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Is There a Role for Philanthropy in Renewing Democracy?

Has the world of organized philanthropy done everything it can to shore up democratic values and aspirations, or has it been pursuing its own ideas of the public good?

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Mohawk Group Takes Home HiP Award With Science-Backed Workplace Carpet

Biophilia can be a part of a project in subtle, almost imperceptible ways and still have a huge impact on the holistic quality of that space. Take, for example, Mohawk Group’s latest workplace carpet offering, Relaxing Floors. It won a HiP award at NeoCon 2019 for its novel concept: that naturally occurring fractal patterns, which have been demonstrated to reduce stress, can be incorporated into contract spaces through flooring.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Aflac Reports on Effort to Give Children With Cancer Huggable Robots

A foundation affiliated with Aflac Inc. has given toy robots that look like the Aflac Duck to children who are facing cancer in about 200 U.S. hospitals and clinics, Aflac said today.

Education

Bridging School and Workplace Experiences: Career Days Offer Learning Opportunities for Students and Associates

Every year, T. Rowe Price provides hundreds of high school students across the globe an opportunity to participate in a Career Day, an event designed to provide them with insight into the professional workforce and help them develop workplace skills. The firm recently hosted events in Baltimore, Colorado Springs, Sydney, and London.

Environment

20 Years Later, Southern California Edison and Fire Agencies Still Work Together to Protect Communities

SCE also continues to expand its 2019 Wildfire Mitigation Plan to protect the public from wildfires in high fire risk areas by installing insulation around power lines. It’s meant to protect the lines from arcing and sparking during high-wind events.

Education

JetBlue’s Soar with Reading Initiative Lands in New York City Placing Free Book Vending Machines in Each of the Five Boroughs

JetBlue (Nasdaq: JBLU), New York’s Hometown Airline®, today launched its ninth annual Soar with Reading initiative in its hometown, marking the first time its innovative free book vending machines have touched down in New York City.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Duke Energy Prepares Vulnerable Residents for Storm Season

Duke Energy recently joined with local community groups to assemble and distribute storm preparedness kits to about 4,000 seniors, some of Florida’s most vulnerable residents. The program expanded across the state after a 2018 pilot in Pinellas County that reached 1,000 homebound seniors in the Meals on Wheels program.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Republic Services Touch-a-Truck Visits Bozeman, MT

Our Republic truck was a big hit at the touch-a-truck event at Little Tree Education Center in Bozeman, MT. The kids (and Driver) had a blast!

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

World Population Day 2019: Addressing the Environmental and Social Impacts of Rapid Population Growth

In the wake of the world’s population reaching 5 billion people, World Population Day was established in 1989 by the UN.

The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada

Education

Science Experiments Inside the Curiosity Cube

WMTV covered MilliporeSigma's Curiosity Cube at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

National Grid And Its Employees Make A Difference; Team Up With United Way To Assist Customers Most In Need

National Grid and its employees have once again joined forces to help support 35 United Way chapters throughout the company’s US service area. This year, more than 4,500 National Grid employees pledged more than $1.4 million to the United Way campaign.

Events, Media & Communications

Sponsor, Volunteer, or Partner with YMCA of Metropolitan Washington for the 25th Annual THINGAMAJIG® Invention Convention, One of the Largest Local STEM-based Events for Youth

Twenty-five years ago, what started as a small science camp celebration with just 140 children has exploded into a multi-state STEM experience for more than 5,000 kids in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.

Environment

Beth Rattner at Climate One: What Is Biomimicry?

Beth Rattner recently spoke at a Climate One panel and podcast, explaining what biomimicry is, and the role it can play in product design.

Research, Reports & Publications

Hallmark 2018 Sustainability Progress

“Overall, we are very pleased with the progress we have made,” said Craig McMonigle, vice president – supply chain innovation and product integrity, Hallmark. “We remain committed to better understanding our water footprint and the areas of biggest impact and risk along our broader supply chain.”

Education

Mars Showcases Coral Restoration at Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Mars has been in business since 1911 — and we want to be thriving in another hundred years. Our Associates take a scientific approach to the challenges that we face, working with the best and brightest around the world to solve the problems we encounter as a business and in society.

Sustainable Development Goals

Crucial Contribution of Business to Paris Agreement

Paper published giving analysis of how policy makers and businesses can work closer together to ramp up private sector engagement in the climate change commitments made under the Paris Agreement.

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Education

Gildan Partners With World Vision to Deliver Its Teacher Training Program in Honduras

As a pillar of Gildan’s community engagement program, the Company believes that investing in youth education can help change futures for individuals and communities grow and prosper in the longer term.

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Teva Drives Progress to Address Pressing Global Health Challenges While Maintaining Focus on Compliance

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE and TASE: TEVA) published today its 2018 Social Impact Report, highlighting how the world’s leading provider of generic medicines helped create a healthier world through its product portfolio, patient programs, environmental sustainability actions and corporate culture rooted in compliance and ethics.

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Events, Media & Communications

Join Schneider Electric for a Sustainability TweetChat: 2019 Earth Overshoot Day

2019 Earth Overshoot Day is earlier than ever. Let's #MoveTheDate.

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