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Environment

Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC) Announces New Collaboration With UN-Habitat’s Cities Investment Facility

New collaboration between Resilient Cities Catalyst and UN-Habitat will identify and solve bottlenecks for projects currently in the Cities Investment Facility pipeline, helping to bring resilience projects to reality in cities around the globe.

Diversity & Inclusion

Quest Diagnostics Celebrates Culture of Inclusion by Raising Pride Flags

We’re proud to celebrate our culture of inclusion this month with the raising of the Pride Flag at our facilities across the country.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Bank, Employees, Customers Provide More Than 8.4 Million Meals for Those in Need

Fifth Third Bank’s “Feeding Our Communities” initiative, held each year in May, this year provided more than 8.4 million meals to fight hunger across its footprint. The total far exceeded the 5.3 million-meals goal the company set for its 2022 effort

Environment

5 Questions for Polar Explorer Robert Swan

Three decades ago, polar explorer Robert Swan became the first person to walk to both the North and South Poles. Since his epic trek, he has dedicated himself to protecting those regions by bringing others along.

Research, Reports & Publications

Boeing Releases 2022 Sustainability Report, Maps Sustainable Aerospace Progress

Boeing [NYSE: BA] today released its annual Sustainability Report, which further defines the company’s sustainability goals and includes key metrics to measure progress of core enterprise priorities.

Energy

Long-Duration Energy Storage Is Essential for Deep, Rapid Decarbonization

Energy storage is now recognized as an essential feature of a modernized, decarbonized electricity grid.

Diversity & Inclusion

T-Mobile Pride Spotlight: I Have Impact

Meet Ellis and hear about his coming out story.

Social Impact & Volunteering

The Purpose of Community Day at Paramount

As a company, giving back is a part of Paramount’s DNA. So while our employees can volunteer, come together, and be a part of something bigger on Community Day, our commitment to service extends beyond a single occurrence.

Health & Healthcare

Illumina Invests in £30M Venture Fund To Advance Breakthroughs in Human Health

Illumina, Inc. announced its participation in Time Boost Capital I LP, a £30 million genomics venture fund dedicated to providing match funding to startups graduating from Illumina Accelerator with the aim to advance breakthroughs in human health.

Green Infrastructure

Coming Soon: Charge Your Car at a Power Pole

Soon, ordinary streetlights, street poles and transformers along Southern California roads will have an extraordinary role to play in the electric transportation revolution, thanks to an innovative pilot program.

Diversity & Inclusion

Marathon Petroleum Helping El Paso Neighborhoods Close the Digital Divide

Using the internet is a routine part of life across most of the U.S., but not in the 79905 ZIP code of El Paso, Texas.

Green Infrastructure

Ensuring a Coherent Pathway to Decarbonize EU Buildings

We at Chemours support ambitious and binding renovation rates for all buildings across the EU.

Environment

Hormel Foods to Invest in Carbon Sequestration, Air and Water Quality

Hormel Foods, and Target along with MBOLD are supporting an innovative agriculture pilot project focusing on advances in soil health practices to improve water and air quality, sequester greenhouse gasses and increase farmland profitability.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Trane Technologies Recertified by Great Place to Work®

Trane Technologies has been Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the second year in a row. The recertification recognizes employers who create an outstanding employee experience and is based on feedback from current Trane Technologies employees.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Harnessing Goodness When Disaster or Crisis Strikes

Gain the knowledge and tools you’ll need to activate a disaster and crisis relief campaign quickly, and discover how you can make a real difference to the impacted communities and your customers the next time they look to you in times of need.

Energy

CNH Industrial Journey to Electrification

As a testament to the long-lasting efforts towards sustainability, CNH Industrial has a long tradition in the electric vehicle sector and is determined to continue its journey.

Environment

How the Fashion Industry Is Tackling Three Major Impacts on Our Ocean - Bringing Hope for the Decade of the Ocean

We owe the ocean a lot and the fashion industry, which is responsible for around 2-8 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions has responded to this.

Environment

Podcast: Designing Net Zero Labs

Laboratories are extraordinarily intricate and complex structures that often require a large amount of energy, water and chemicals to function.

Innovation & Technology

Dow Supports Automotive Sustainability Goals With New Moldable Optical Silicone

Dow launched SILASTIC™ MS-5002 Moldable Silicone, a specialized liquid silicone rubber (LSR) featuring very low mold fouling for faster cycle times and high-quality optics in automotive adaptive driving beam (ADB) light guides.

Education

Implementing a Safety Management System to Drive DOT Compliance and Fleet Safety

In a webinar hosted by Antea Group, health and safety consultants describe the components of an SMS, how to implement them, the benefits of implementation, and why implementing an SMS is an important step in improving fleet safety and compliance.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

HP Volunteers Offer Help and Hope to Displaced Ukrainians

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, neighboring countries soon found themselves with a humanitarian crisis.

Diversity & Inclusion

What Gives Me Pride?

June is Pride month, and as the sponsor of Keysight’s LGBTQA+ employee networking group, I couldn’t be prouder of the amazing contributions our people are making to their local LGBTQA+ communities and causes around the world.

Education

Henkel Unveils Dedicated Researchers' World Classroom in North America

Henkel Researchers’ World introduces children to the concepts of sustainability, consumption, recycling, materials science and more.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Delivering for Good: Hands-on Learning for Students During COVID-19 Shutdowns

FedEx shipped 90,000 copies of the Smithsonian's Summer Road Trip activity guide in August, including 4,000 copies distributed to learners with the greatest need in Shelby County Schools in Memphis, Tennessee.

Environment

The Soil Secrets That Could Help Feed the World

When microbiologist Dr. Barry Goldman reads alarming reports about threats such as pests and climate change affecting the world’s food supply, he believes the solution is local

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