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Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

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What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Cargill Invests in Food Innovation Centers to Meet Consumer Demands Now and in the Future

Cargill demonstrated an intensified commitment to innovation in food, nutrition and food safety during the final two months of 2016. The company opened two major R&D facilities in November and December—one in North America and one in China—focused on continuous improvement and investing in the future of food to meet shifting consumer expectations.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Glendale Residents Appreciate Trash Collector

Several neighborhoods in Glendale, Missouri, are praising the man who picks up their trash.

Diversity & Inclusion

Practitioner Spotlight--Ryan Cate

This month Antea Group spotlights environmental liability management senior PM Ryan Cate out of the Charlotte office, who tells us about himself and what he loves about his work, including his favorite project and his secret talent.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Celebrating 25 years of Innovation in Vietnam

This year, Kimberly-Clark celebrates 25 years of providing the essentials for a better life to Vietnamese consumers, an important milestone in the company’s journey that first began in 1991.

Education

Investing In Quality Education

Responsible Production & Consumption

Domtar's Community Effort to Improve Energy Efficiency in Sweden

Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide variety of fiber-based products, including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers, and absorbent hygiene products.

Environment

Economic Analysis for a Healthcare Recycling Program

HPRC has put together a comprehenmsive ecnonomic analysis for a healthcare recycling program, which will walk you through a full analysis in preparation for a new program, or in evaluation of an existing program. It considers baseline waste data, plastics quantities, and start-up, capital, and disposal costs for the program.

​Simply follow the instructions and fields will calculate based on your inputs.​ This data can then be used to make the business case for recycling at your hospital, or to help understand and improve upon your current practices. p understand and improve upon your current practices.

Events, Media & Communications

The Power of the Individual

Have you heard of Sybil?

In 1777, in the dark of night, a sixteen-year old Sybil Ludington mounted her horse, Star, and raced furiously across forty miles of rocky terrain to warn her community of an imminent threat.
It was the time of the Revolutionary War when British citizens were fighting tooth and nail for the place I now call home—the United States of America. Sybil, the age of a high schooler, travelled a distance significantly farther than that of Paul Revere to alert militia forces of the British army’s approach.

Education

Shining a Light on Vital Education, with Didier Drogba

How a soccer star and a food company united to help kids in Côte d’Ivoire

Social Impact & Volunteering

Arrow Electronics Employees Spread the Love

Two dozen employees from Arrow Electronics’ enterprise computing solutions business assembled more than 200 sack lunches last month for area homeless people who were turned away from a local housing shelter due to overcrowding.

Environment

Four Strong Winds: First US Offshore Wind Project Launches

As the public learned of the recent opening of America’s first offshore wind power project, many wondered why it took so long?

Environment

Use Energy Efficient Compressors to Attain LEED Certification

According a U.S. Energy Information Administration report released in October, manufacturing energy consumption increased between 2010 and 2014 for the first time in almost a decade. Prior to 2014, energy consumption in manufacturing industries had been steadily decreasing since 2002. But companies still have incentive to become energy efficient. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification helps buildings keep their net environmental impact low in all phases of development, from construction to operation. Installing an Atlas Copco energy efficient compressor is just one way manufacturers can work toward achieving this status.

Innovation & Technology

FCA US Debuts Chrysler Portal Concept at CES 2017: Next-generation Family Transportation Designed by Millennials for Millennials

When it came to thinking about the future of family transportation, FCA US called upon the people who will own and live with such a vehicle – millennials working inside the company’s design and engineering functions – to collaborate on ideas.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Children of Light, Children of Darkness: 2017's Protagonists

“Sometimes new truth rides into history on the back of an error."

Diversity & Inclusion

Sodexo Participates in HACR’s Research Initiative Aimed at Measuring Hispanic Inclusion in Corporate America

Sodexo, a world leader in Quality of Life Services, today announced its participation in 2016 HACR Corporate Inclusion Index (HACR CII) survey, which released results mid-December.

Health & Healthcare

5 Tips to Make Good Nutrition a Family Affair in 2017

From starting off right to fighting a slowing metabolism, we’ve got nutrition resolutions for everyone in the family

Events, Media & Communications

NetSuite.org Brings Together Close to 200 Leaders from Nonprofits and Social Enterprises for Social Impact Accelerated Conference

In November, close to 200 leaders from nonprofits, social enterprises, government and education gathered at the AIM Conference Center in Manila for NetSuite.org’s 2nd annual Social Impact Accelerated Conference.

Innovation & Technology

TECHO is Working to Eradicate Poverty in Latin America with NetSuite.org

TECHO, a youth-led non-profit organization dedicated to helping families living in slums, shares how a software donation from NetSuite.org has enabled them to manage their finances across 17 countries and focus on permanently eradicating poverty.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Serving the Poor in a Transformative Way at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social service agency offering services in twenty-one counties and seven independent cities in northern and central Virginia that comprise the Diocese of Arlington.

Innovation & Technology

Scotiabank Investing $1 Million In Ocad’s Design Thinking Research Studio

Scotiabank is dedicating $1 million to developing a Design Thinking Research Studio at OCAD, which will allow the university to create a Design Thinking educational curriculum model and generate research, workshops, executive education, and an annual open public forum.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Musings from a Rainy Monday Evening

If you need another New Year’s resolution, try this one on for size: celebrate sustainability by embracing the human experience.

Events, Media & Communications

WEBINAR: A Year in CSR: A Look at the Top 10 Trends of 2016

As the year draws to a close, Cone Communications evaluated a years’-worth of corporate social responsibility (CSR) trends to bring you the top 10 trends of 2016. The complimentary webinar presentation will take place January 11, 2017 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST.

Health & Healthcare

Qualcomm’s Tricorder XPRIZE is Down to two Finalists

A bit of a mutual admiration society has developed between the two finalists in Qualcomm’s $10 million Tricorder XPRIZE competition. Whatever animus might have developed in the nearly half-decade since the contest was announced at CES 2012 has seemingly taken a back seat to an appreciation for what the other team has accomplished.

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