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Environment | International Paper

National Forest Week: How International Paper Helps Restore Longleaf Ecosystems

National Forest Week, held annually during the second week of June, raises awareness for the 193 million acres of National Forests across the United States and the benefits these landscapes provide.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Abbott and PATH Fight Malnutrition with a Better Fortified Rice

Many people around the world rely on rice as a staple food. But rice can leave a lot to be desired as a complete food – it contains very little in the way of essential vitamins and minerals, including iron. This lack of nutrients contributes to high rates of anemia and children who are underweight and behind in their physical development.

FSG Reimagining Social Change

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Four Guiding Principles for Rethinking Your Workforce

With 46 percent of employers reporting difficulty filling jobs and looming uncertainty around how artificial intelligence and automation will impact the future of work, CSR and HR leaders are testing and innovating new models for managing talent that are critical to the future success of their companies.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

SROI Accreditation Training for Practitioners

This fall register for SROI Accreditation training in Toronto (October 16-17, 2018) and Calgary (November 6-7, 2018).

Health & Healthcare

Big Impact in Bio: Building Communities

In this video, Amgen Scholars alumni tell their #BigImpactinBio stories, focusing on the importance of community building in science. Rachel Lucero (ASP 2014, University of California, San Diego) is a STEM teacher at the Dunbar School in Washington, D.C.; Marta Andrés Terré, Ph.D. (ASP 2010, Karolinska Institutet) is a scientist at the Bain & Company; Joshua Yang (ASP 2013, University of California, San Diego) is co-founder of Helispot and an M.D./Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University; and Stylianos Serghiou, M.D. (ASP 2010, University of Cambridge) is a Ph.D student at Stanford University.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

How Sappi's $165M Investment Will Reshape its Business

In February 2017, Sappi announced the approval of a $165 million capital project that will expand Sappi North America’s manufacturing capabilities and flexibility to include a variety of consumer packaging products. The project, slated to come online in 2018, will take place at the Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

African Food Businesses Get Nurturing from Well-Known Giants

Volunteers from some of the world’s biggest food producers, who decades ago took food-making from kitchen to the factory, are offering guidance to African entrepreneurs and helping nations become less dependent on imported food.

Social Impact & Volunteering

VMware Citizen Philanthropists Organize Bangalore E-Waste Drive

On July 21, 150 Citizen Philanthropists at VMware Bangalore designed a custom service learning project: door-to-door e-waste collection. The group divided into 12 teams to collect e-waste from the Koramangala neighborhood. Volunteers worked with local radio and newspaper, businesses, and social media influencers to promote the drive, and partnered with local nonprofits, Saahas and Ensyde, to facilitate recycling.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Gildan Releases 2017 Genuine Responsibility™ Report and New CSR Website

Gildan Activewear Inc. (GIL; TSX and NYSE) announces the release of its Genuine Responsibility™ 2017 report now available on its new dedicated CSR website www.genuineresponsibility.com. This year’s report, once again prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards: Comprehensive option, highlights the Company’s 2017 results, key priorities and future commitments toward its vision of Making Apparel Better™.

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Innovation & Technology

Shedding an Outmoded Paper Trail in Serbia

Let’s time-travel to Serbia, circa 1999: it was a time before smartphones or Wi-Fi. The largest hard disk available had a 340MB capacity and cost USD$499. Meanwhile, the volume of printed paper generated for record-keeping and the demands of the modern age was reaching new heights with each passing day. Today, every consumer product we desire is ’one click away.’

Sustainable Development Goals

Leveraging the Human Factor to Manage Extreme Weather Events

As part of Bechtel’s commitment to contribute 100 ideas to support the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we share insights on leveraging the “human factor” to improve resilience from extreme weather events. These insights are based on a joint IBM-Bechtel field project Puerto Rico.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND: Lending a Hand to Puerto Rico

In the wake of Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico in September 2017 and left a majority of the island without power, homes and roads destroyed, and water contaminated, Northern Trust’s Latin Heritage Leadership Council (LHLC) partnered with other Chicago-area firms to provide help.

Innovation & Technology

Connecting More Than 6 Million Low-Income Americans

Comcast today announced it has now connected more than six million low-income Americans to the Internet through its Internet Essentials program, which is the largest and most comprehensive broadband adoption program for low-income families in the U.S. The company connected more than two million people in the last year alone, which is the largest annual increase in the program’s history. The company also announced it will significantly expand eligibility – for the eleventh time in seven years – to low-income veterans, nearly one million of whom live within the Comcast footprint. According to the United States Census Bureau’s 2016 American Community Survey, less than 70 percent of low-income veterans have Internet access, and about 60 percent own a computer.

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Events, Media & Communications

CR Leads from Aflac and Tupperware to Emcee at 3BL Forum

Catherine Hernandez-Blades, Senior Vice President; Chief Brand and Communications Officer, Aflac, and Mark Shamley, Vice President, Global Social Impact, Tupperware, lead corporate responsibility at two mission-driven Fortune 1000 brands.

Environment

Philippines to Access the Green Climate Fund

“Ambition enables finance,” said Redentor Constantino, executive director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, as he introduced another way of merging climate-related action and finance to achieve a low-carbon and resilient economy in the Philippines. Echoing the words of Senator Loren Legarda, Constantino said that economic resilience, especially in the face of climate threats, entailed a strategic use of available funding from the local through to the international level.

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Environment

Denali National Park Tackles Trash With Zero-Landfill Initiative

A record number of visitors traveled to Interior Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve last year, but they left behind less trash than a few years before. A push to send less waste to the local landfill is working, officials say.

Events, Media & Communications

Partnership and Purpose at Sustainable Brands

I was excited to attend and present at Sustainable Brands 2018. My research focuses on how organizations are engaging with sustainability challenges, and my work’s motivation stems from my deep-seated hope that business will transform how we address the many societal challenges that we face today. I believe that business is uniquely situated to help solve challenges like climate change and poverty. It was inspiring to hear from hundreds of companies at Sustainable Brands that are working to redefine how they do business—to do well by doing good.

Environment

Worst Types of Litter: Plastic Straws Not Even in the Top 5

Plastic straws aren't the only environmental contaminants missing the trash can, or, rather, the recycling bin. As companies such as Starbucks move away from plastic straws, environmental advocates say these items aren't the worst litter offender.

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Environment

Inogen Member Spotlight--Alex Ferguson

Antea Group is a part of the Inogen Environmental Alliance—a global network of EHS&S consultancies that work together to provide environmental health and safety solutions on every continent in the world. Our Inogen Member Spotlight series highlights the experience and knowledge from our fellow Inogen Associates from all around the world.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Ecocentricity Blog: Can't Trust This

US businesses have the lowest trust scores of all OECD countries being tracked, other than those headquartered in Mexico.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

In Our Ranks

We were honored to receive the 2017 Secretary of Defense Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award. Nominations of employers can be made only by Guard and Reserve employees or a family member acting on their behalf. In 2017, Comcast NBCUniversal received more than 30 individual nominations.

Many unique service members have joined our ranks at Comcast NBCUniversal. Each military employee brings distinct experiences and skill sets from his or her service. Jeff Tzeng, Sabrina Spirito, and Ernest Easter are just three of the military employees who inspire and lead by example daily.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Pork Processor Brings Home the Bacon

Smithfield's solution meant combining its three supply chains into one, which dovetailed nicely with its "One Smithfield" initiative to unify the three companies and their brands under one corporate umbrella. The process would not only help get to the root cause of problems, it would also improve operating efficiency and reduce costs while contributing to the organization's aggressive sustainability goals.

Responsible Production & Consumption

WWF Exposes Ivory Trade Loopholes Using Fictitious Online Store

From limited edition logo swaps to Tinder profiles made for endangered monkeys, many organizations have interjected their wildlife conservation messages into the everyday lives of consumers in an effort to bring the topic to the forefront. Recently, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) pulled off its own stunt to raise awareness about the ivory trade in Singapore and the loopholes that make it possible.

Innovation & Technology

Revolutionizing India’s Rural Healthcare Through Technology

Approximately two-thirds of India’s 1.3 billion people live in rural areas, according to the World Health Organization. Imagine the challenge of delivering preventive healthcare to over 800 million remote villagers and tracking patient records without the use of technology.

Environment

Americans Say That Clean Water Is the Most Important Factor to Living a Healthy Lifestyle, According to Second Annual Study from Nestlé Waters North America

Americans rank clean water as the most important factor to living a healthy life (27 percent of consumers and 32 percent of experts) – higher than even getting enough sleep (25 percent of consumers and 22 percent of experts) and eating healthy foods (23 percent of consumers and 25 percent of experts), according to “Perspectives on America's Water.” The study, the second annual of its kind commissioned by Nestlé Waters North America, surveyed a total of 6,142 American consumers and experts on water-related topics.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SC Johnson Brasil é considerada Melhor Empresa para Trabalhar pelo quarto ano consecutivo

A SC Johnson Brasil anunciou hoje que foi reconhecida como uma das Melhores Empresas para Trabalhar de 2018 pelo Instituto Great Place to Work®. A organização obteve a classificação XX na relação de Melhores Empresas para Trabalhar de Médio Porte do Brasil. Este é o quarto ano consecutivo que a operação brasileira da SC Johnson é reconhecida na lista de Melhores Empresas para Trabalhar, lançada anualmente pelo instituto, e seu quinto reconhecimento geral.

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