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Environment | International Paper

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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Earth Week Spring Cleaning

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

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

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

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

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Kids Foundation Gives Record $3 Million in Garden Grants

Whole Kids Foundation, a nonprofit established by Whole Foods Market and dedicated to helping to improve children’s nutrition

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Education

Teachers Spending More Out of Pocket on School Supplies Than Ever Before

AdoptAClassroom.org, the national nonprofit that provides funding for U.S. teachers and schools, today released the results of their 2021 classroom spending survey of 5,400 PreK-12 teachers at public, private and charter schools.

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Innovation & Technology

Autonomous Vehicles: Partnership for Progress in Image Sensing

As vehicles progress from advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to becoming fully autonomous, a key technology enabler will be the advanced sensors that allow these vehicles to sense the world around them.

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Innovation & Technology

LifeGuides® Appoints David Hester, Ph.D, LMHC, As Senior Director, Guides Community

LifeGuides® Appoints David Hester, Ph.D, LMHC, as Senior Director, Guides Community

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

IVECO Supports Areas Hit by Tornado in the Czech Republic

In June, a violent tornado swept through several villages in the in the Hodonín and Břeclav districts of the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic.

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Innovation & Technology

Black & Veatch Air Purification Technology Fights Covid-19 Faster, uses Less Energy

Through work with the clean-teach company Energy Cloud Inc., Black & Veatch created a technology that purifies the air of COVID-19 and other pathogens in real time.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Insulated Corporate Boards Pose a Threat to Shareholders, Others

The report, "Boards and their Stakeholders: The State of Play" — by WBCSD and DNV — shows that corporate board members who fail to communicate with stakeholders beyond their company’s ownership and investors pose a threat to success. “In failing to communicate with all stakeholders, board members could be violating their fiduciary duties to investors because they could overlook new business opportunities or fail to identify reputational risks to their company,” said William Sisson, executive director, North America, WBCSD.

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Environment

2020 Sustainability Report: A Letter From the CEO

2020 was a lot of things – but more than anything it was a catalyst. As EHS&S consultants, Antea Group recognized the opportunity during this unprecedented time to step forward and provide more support and value to clients.

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Environment

The Trash Problem in National Parks

The issue has prompted the National Park Foundation, the official charity of the NPS, to team up with private companies such as Subaru and Tupperware Brands to divert a reported 10 million plastic bottles from landfills per year.

Innovation & Technology

Can We Reboot Office Buildings As Data Centers?

It is now almost universally accepted that we are not all going back to the office, at least not full time. So what does that mean for the proportion of commercial real estate that will be surplus to requirements?

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Owens Corning's Material Sustainability Topics

Our Material Topics represent our stakeholders’ priorities with consideration of our impacts, and they’re informed by the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Energy

Enbridge: Our Plan to Achieve Net Zero by 2050

At Enbridge, we encourage innovation at all levels of our organization, across and within all business units, through a structured framework that helps us gather and act on ideas.

Innovation & Technology

Cristiano Amon: 5G for a Digital and Sustainable Economy

For decades, Qualcomm has defined wireless innovation, creating fundamental inventions in many generations of mobile technologies and driving ever-improving speeds, security and latency.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Grameen America Receives a $1.5 Million Grant From Truist Foundation to Empower Black Women Entrepreneurs

Grameen America, a nonprofit community development financial institution helping low-income women entrepreneurs build small businesses, announced today it has received a $1.5 million grant from Truist Foundation

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Events, Media & Communications

Land Betterment Corporation Attends Shaping Our Appalachia Region's 3rd Quarter Executive Meeting

Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”) announced that several team members attended Shaping Our Appalachia Region’s (SOAR) 3rd Quarter Executive Meeting on August 11t

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Environment

Faces of Acre - Working to protect our Oceans

In our latest Faces of Acre installment, we sat down with Jack Mulloy, Principal Consultant, Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing, to discuss his pro bono work as a business developer for the marine conservation charity Sea Shepherd.

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Diversity & Inclusion

M·A·C Cosmetics Tops Fashion Journal List of Makeup Brands With the Most Inclusive Foundation Shades

The human eye can see 10 million colours, But makeup brands are still trying to convince us that a foundation range of 25 shades is ‘diverse’.

Environment

SCE Funds New Academic Institute to Fight Wildfires

The western U.S. is in the throes of a severe drought as, more locally, California’s parched landscape finds residents bracing for another peak wildfire season.

Events, Media & Communications

ESG Fireside Chat: You, Me, and ESG - Uniting Sustainability and Finance

Sustainability leaders want to drive ESG reporting to meet stakeholder needs. Meanwhile, finance teams need to know that ESG data will be held to the same level of scrutiny as financial data in every disclosure.

Black & Veatch

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Black & Veatch Executive Jenn Shafer Named to Influential Kansas City Region Leadership Class

Jennifer “Jenn” Shafer, associate vice president and director of dispute resolution for Black & Veatch, has been named to the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City’s (CCGKC) latest “Kansas City Tomorrow” leadership class.

Health & Healthcare

Morgan Stanley Survey Reveals Nearly Half of U.S. Teens Are Concerned About Experiencing Anxiety in Returning to Regular Activities

Nearly half (48%) of U.S. teens are concerned about experiencing social anxiety in transitioning back to “normal” life, according to a new survey released today by the Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health (the “Alliance”).

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Principal Financial Group® Issues $600 Million Sustainability Bond

Principal Financial Group® issued its first sustainability bond on August 16 in the amount of $600 million as part of the company’s commitment to integrating and advancing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices and initiatives in its organization and operations.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Maybe One Day I Will Be a CEO - Natalia Liashenko

Natalia Liashenko, Director of the Home & Distribution department of Schneider Electric Ukraine, recounts her journey from daughter of two doctors in Ukraine to success at Schneider Electric.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

NRG Energy 2020 Sustainability Report: Employee Engagement

Building a culture of transparency by continuously engaging in dialogue between leaders and employees is important to us.

Green Infrastructure

All You Need to Know About Tokyo 2020 Sustainability

From the hydrogen-powered cauldron to medals made from recycled mobile phones, from gender balance to the first official Pride House, the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 are blazing a trail for the future. Here’s everything you need to know about how Tokyo 2020 is helping build a better, more sustainable world through sport.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Climate Stabilization
    SCS is working to advance climate accounting and reporting based on the latest climate science to help stabilize climate below temperature thresholds...

  2. Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
    The vision of Paris 2024 Paris 2024 will see a new vision of Olympism in action, delivered in a unique spirit of international celebration. We will...

  3. Carton Council
    Formed in 2009, the Carton Council is an industry organization committed to growing carton recycling in the U.S. By promoting both recycling...

  4. Recognition of our Company
    As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...

  5. First Responder Programming
    At Motorola Solutions, our customers are everyday heroes, and our philanthropic arm, the Motorola Solutions Foundation is dedicated to paying it...

  6. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...

  7. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...

  8. Fifth Third Day 2025
    Fifth Third Bank’s nearly 19,000 employees celebrate the annual “Fifth Third Day” by volunteering and donating to fight food insecurity within their...

  9. Accelerating access to healthcare technology
    We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...

  10. Innovation & Sustainable Solutions
    Chemours chemistry is essential to our daily lives, global commerce, and the future. Our commitment to product sustainability drives us to innovate...

  11. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.

  12. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They're the people who build websites, run restaurants, and offer classes online. But their impact has gone largely unnoticed. Our mission is to...

  13. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They're the people who build websites, run restaurants, and offer classes online. But their impact has gone largely unnoticed. Our mission is to...

  14. Drawdown Georgia
    Informed by Project Drawdown, the world’s leading resource for climate solutions, Drawdown Georgia is the first state-centered effort to crowdsolve...

  15. Subaru Love Promise: Environment
    Subaru works to reduce waste, safeguard resources for future generations, and preserve natural spaces – making real, meaningful commitments to these...