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Environment

Georgia Tech Professors Take the Carbon Reduction Challenge from Class to Co-op

The Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business is creating the next leaders to take on carbon reduction through an innovative co-curricular initiative launched in partnership with the College of Sciences and partially funded by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Timberland and Wrangler Explore Good Apparel Solutions at Sustainable Brands Detroit

Global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland recently joined forces with its VF sister brand, Wrangler, to explore and promote good apparel solutions through sustainable agriculture at the Sustainable Brands ‘17 conference in Detroit. The conference theme, “Redefining the Good Life,” came to life throughout the week at the Activation Hub, an interactive expo where brands and attendees partnered to explore and define a more sustainable future for various sectors.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Grants Management Software ≠ Greater Impact

That title might seem surprising coming from a grants management software company, but it’s a reality we face every day with our clients. There is no shortcut to achieving impact with your philanthropy programs. Simply buying a grants system to measure outcomes won’t get you to greater insight or greater impact. You need a plan and that’s not something you generally look to your software vendor to provide.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

VMware’s Commitment To Sustainability: CEO Pat Gelsinger Message to Employees

With the announcement that the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, I wanted to reiterate VMware’s absolute commitment to operating our business in a responsible and sustainable manner. From our commitment to green building practices around the world to the order of magnitude our technology delivers in terms of energy and carbon emission reductions in IT, VMware has been on the leading edge of positive environmental impact since our inception.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Comcast NBCUniversal Receives Secretary of Defense 'Freedom Award'

Comcast NBCUniversal's commitment to the military community is about more than just hiring. It’s about making sure these military employees have a professional environment that allows them to thrive both in their civilian career and their military career.

Education

Kip, Kip, Hooray: The Osprey has a Name

"Ooohh," "Aahhh," "Whoooaaa."

Those sounds were some of the not really quiet, but trying to be quiet, squeals from 150 elementary students as Skoshi, a 28-year-old red-tailed hawk, made an appearance at Oakhurst STEAM Academy in Charlotte, N.C.

Environment

Delivering Clean Water Through Circular Thinking

Resource reuse makes such a big impression today because our natural resources are becoming noticeably scarce. But now, we have the technology to sustain them. Water is a great example, and a lush county in New York State is seeing its climate pose an issue that calls for circular thinking.

Health & Healthcare

Three Quality of Lifehacks for Adding More Dairy to Your Diet

June is National Dairy Month, so we decided to highlight the benefits of adding naturally nutrient-rich dairy foods to your diet. Dairy foods—milk, yogurt and cheese—are an important source of high-quality protein and essential nutrients like calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and vitamins A and D.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Scotiabank Impact Story: Empowering Customers with Sustainable Investing Tools

Corporate environmental, social and governance practices (ESG) have the potential to impact a company’s financial performance, both positively and negatively. Corporate data on ESG practices has also been used by institutional investors and fund companies as part of their investment management.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Who Are the Winners of the European Bio-Based Innovation Awards 2017?

Last week at the end of the second day of Bio-Based Live Europe, hosted at the University of Amsterdam, the winners of the Bio-Based Innovation Awards (Europe) were announced. The winner of our European Bio-Based Chemical Innovation of the Year 2017 which is Cyrene developed by Mercki, the Chemistry Centre of Excellence at the University of York and Circa Group in response to increasing demand for safer, greener alternatives to PMF and NMP.

Research, Reports & Publications

WEBINAR: 2017 Cone Communications CSR Study: The Need-to-Know Data & Insights

2017 will be remembered as the year that corporate social responsibility (CSR) was redefined. Although CSR will always be grounded in business operations, the stakes have gotten a lot higher. Companies must now share not only what they stand for, but what they stand up for.

Environment

General Motors Sustainability Newsletter - June 2017

General Motors’ sustainability approach enables the company to serve its customers and shareholders, increase operational efficiency, mitigate risk and improve the communities where it does business.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Cornell’s Climate-Conscious Urban Campus Arises

When Cornell University competed in 2011 to develop an applied science and engineering campus in New York City, part of its pitch was that it would construct an academic building that would at least approach making as much energy as it used in a year, a concept known as net zero. It won. Then came the hard work of making that vision happen at the campus, known as Cornell Tech.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CITGO Renews Its Commitment as Official Fuel Sponsor of First Response Team of America

CITGO renewed its Official Fuel Sponsorship of First Response Team of America, helping the organization support communities across the country in the crucial moments immediately following natural disasters. As Official Fuel Sponsor, CITGO will help First Response Team purchase the fuel they need to help communities struggling in the aftermath of a catastrophe.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

2017 Environmental Leader Conference Honors Ingersoll Rand with Awards for Product Innovation and Energy Management Leadership

Ingersoll Rand®, a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, won an Environmental Leader Product Award for its Ingersoll Rand Next Generation R-Series line of compressors at the Environmental Leader Conference in Denver, Colorado on June 6, 2017. Deborah Kalish, program manager for Ingersoll Rand, also received an Energy Manager Today 50 award at the conference.

Education

Arrow Electronics Sponsors Student-led Formula-E Electric Race Car Projects in Norway, Germany

In Europe, Arrow is working with universities that are participating in Formula Student, a global automotive engineering competition. Some 3,500 students across Europe participate in the program each year, producing more than 100 custom vehicles. Arrow sponsors the Formula-E Race Car Projects in Norway and Germany.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

HP Canada Listed as One of Canada’s Greenest Employers for the Tenth Year in a Row

HP Canada is listed as one of Canada’s Greenest Employers for the tenth year in a row. Canada's Greenest Employers is an editorial competition organized by the Canada's Top 100 Employers project.

Sustainable Development Goals

National Geographic and Partner GSK Launch ‘Chasing Genius’, a Global Platform and Call for Transformational Ideas to Improve the Wellbeing of Our Planet and People

21st Century Fox’s National Geographic is now accepting submissions for Chasing Genius, a new digital community developed in partnership with GSK Consumer Healthcare based on the idea that global change can come from anyone and anywhere. The platform is inspired by Genius, Nat Geo’s first scripted series produced by Academy Award winners Brain Grazer and Ron Howard, which premiered in April and chronicles Albert Einstein’s life through stories about his friends, lovers, enemies, and fellow scientific luminaries.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Unreasonable Impact | Creating the Jobs of Tomorrow

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Strengthening the World’s Largest School Meals Program

The General Mills Foundation announced a two-year, $500,000 grant to the World Food Program last month to advance a pilot program to fortify rice and other staples served daily at the mid-day meal in India to nearly 140,000 school children.

Environment

New White Paper on EU Pump Efficiency Regulations

As the EU seeks to become the most climate friendly region in the world, it is continuously introducing new regulations that place ever-stricter demands on CO2 emissions and the environmental design of energy-using products. As a leading supplier of pumps for the construction sector, Xylem has created a new white paper to help customers understand the complex regulatory landscape.

Sustainable Development Goals

Walmart | A Message From Our Chief Sustainability Officer

As featured in the Walmart Global Responsibility Report 2017 : Over the past 30 years, global prosperity has increased by many measures. Life expectancy, school enrollment and access to drinking water are up and technology has opened new doors for billions of people. Yet at the same time this progress occurs, growing population, globalization and technological disruption have created new social and environmental challenges.

Social Impact & Volunteering

MyViacommunity Stories: Fostering Hope, By Design

Katie Dominguez, senior art director at TV Land, talks about her volunteer work through Viacom’s pro-social branch, Viacommunity.

Innovation & Technology

Pentair, Urban Organics Open Aquaponics Farm in Old Schmidt Brewery

Urban Organics worker Lee Scoggins flicked a cup of powder into a large blue pool and watched as 50,000 tiny salmon, each the size of a paper clip, darted toward dinner inside the newly converted old Schmidt Brewery plant in St. Paul.

Education

Major League Baseball Players Association Shines Light on Michael Weiner Scholarship Recipients and Future Labor Leaders

Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark told Michael Weiner Scholarship for Labor Studies recipients all about the man for whom the award is named during a luncheon in their honor at the union's Manhattan headquarters on Monday, June 5.

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Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business

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Sustainable Operations

ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)