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Responsible Production & Consumption

Ti-Pure™ Brand Poll Reveals Balancing Sustainability and Cost as Greatest Challenge to Advancing Sustainability in Coatings Product Design

The Chemours Company released its coatings sustainability poll results, finding that 63 percent of coatings professionals identify balancing sustainability and cost as their greatest challenge to advancing sustainability in their coatings design.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Dow Named One of America's Most JUST Companies for the Third Year by JUST Capital

Dow announced that for the third year it has been named to the JUST 100 list and this year has earned the top spot in the Chemicals sector overall.

Green Infrastructure

More Than Point A to B: Why Koch Is Scaling Up Autonomous and Electrified Logistics Solutions

Byron Knight explores the 'tremendous opportunity' to invest in new supply chain innovations

Diversity & Inclusion

Prioritizing Mental Health As a Multicultural Founder

Launching a company can be stressful for anyone, but diverse founders often face unique impacts on their mental well-being. Here’s how some prior participants in our Multicultural Innovation Lab have coped.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Illumina Named One of America's Most JUST Companies for Third Consecutive Year

We are honored to be recognized as #32 by CNBC and JUST Capital in the Americas Most JUST rankings and #1 for customers in the Pharmaceuticals and Biotech industry.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

How E-Commerce Can Push the Sustainable Packaging Trend

The rise of e-commerce has also given rise to enormous piles of discarded shipping boxes and packaging materials that sit at the curbside as monuments of waste.

Events, Media & Communications

The State of Sustainable Procurement: Insights From Spend Matters

Join this fireside chat moderated by EcoVadis CMO Emily Rakowski as she interviews Nick Heinzmann, Analyst Team Lead at Spend Matters for his insights on the current trends at the intersection of procurement and sustainability.

Diversity & Inclusion

KeyBank Partners With The Eastern Area of Links, Incorporated to Bring Financial Resources to Women of Color Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

KeyBank and The Eastern Area of The Links, Incorporated, one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of professional women of African descent, announce a newly formed partnership to provide a customized Key4Women® Business Education Series and micro-grants to women of color small business owners and entrepreneurs.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

iHeartMedia-Chicago Hits Over $675K for Children's Hospital

iHeartMedia Chicago's 93.9 LITE FM, Relaxing Favorites, and ROCK 95 FIVE, Chicago's Rock Station, announced that "Lurie Children's Hospital Radiothon" raised over $675,000 in support of the patients and families at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, one of the top children's hospitals in the nation, providing pediatric care, cutting-edge treatments and advanced research.

Environment

People Behind CSR at Cisco: Inspiration to Action, Stepping Toward Climate Solutions

At Cisco, we envision a world where our planet’s limited resources are used sustainably so both people and ecosystems can thrive.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Whirlpool Corporation Sponsored Habitat for Humanity Asia Pacific Housing Forum Focused on Building Resilient Cities and Communities

The eighth Habitat for Humanity Asia Pacific Housing Forum, which took place virtually from Dec. 7-9, 2021, was attended by 2,060 people and featured more than 180 speakers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Nominations Now Being Accepted for the 2022 Responsible CEO of the Year Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award

3BL Media is proud to announce that nominations are now being accepted for 2022 Responsible CEO of the Year Awards.

Green Infrastructure

Trane Technologies Healthy Spaces Podcast Season 2 Episode 6: The (Bus) Ride to Efficient and Equitable Cities

People depend on mass transit to make life work. In this episode of Healthy Spaces with Trane Technologies, we discuss mass transit’s opportunity to positively influence community and environmental health with Jared Schnader of CALSTART.

Education

CNH Industrial Employees Engage Community Through STEM@Work

CNH Industrial brand New Holland Agriculture opened the doors to its New Holland campus in November to 80 high school students as part of the STEM@Work series

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CNBC JUST 100: Doing the Right Thing for Our Communities, People and Planet

Hershey recognized as one of America’s Most JUST Companies for the third consecutive year.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ecolab Named One of America's Most JUST Companies

Ecolab, the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services, has again been named one of the country’s Most JUST Companies for its commitment to stakeholders and environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.

Health & Healthcare

Illumina Partners With Agendia to Expand Genomic Testing in Breast Cancer Care

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced a multi-year partnership with Agendia N.V., a world leader in precision oncology for breast cancer, to co-develop in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests for oncology testing. The partnership is intended to advance the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) for decentralized oncology testing and aligns with Illumina's approach to IVD partnerships in oncology. Agendia joins Illumina's growing portfolio of more than 30 IVD partners developing over 40 sequencing-based solutions for cancer prognosis, therapy selection and other applications.

Energy

Diode Ventures Launches Large-Scale Renewable Energy, Data Infrastructure Partnership in South Korea

The Republic of Korea runs on several energy-intensive industries, but a lack of sufficient natural resources means that Asia's fourth-largest economy is forced to import nearly all its energy even as it works toward aggressive net-zero goals.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Record Year for Verizon Frontline Public Safety Technology Deployments

A year of unique challenges, 2021 saw the Verizon Response Team deploy more than 1,000 times to just over 700 communities across the country.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Dennis Papilion to Helm WSP USA's Industry-Leading Environment Business

Dennis Papilion has been hired as president of the Earth & Environment (E&E) business line at WSP USA, a leading environmental, engineering and professional services consultancy. Papilion assumed his executive role on Jan. 10.

Diversity & Inclusion

Lenovo Sparks National Effort to Increase Diversity of Patent Holders in Tech

Efforts to increase diversity in a corporation are not new, and the payoff of creating a diverse and inclusive workforce has been shown time and time again.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bonnie Wongtrakool, Global Head of ESG Investments and Portfolio Manager at Western Asset Management, co-founds the California Chapter of the Bloomberg Women's Buy-Side Network

With the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Network seeks to increase female representation in portfolio manager and other senior-level investment industry positions through education, mentoring and networking opportunities.

Health & Healthcare

Alkermes Highlights Ongoing Investigational Immuno-oncology Clinical Trials

Alkermes is committed to researching and developing potential new cancer treatment options that may help address unmet patient needs.

Diversity & Inclusion

Increasing Women's Representation in Cybersecurity

NortonLifeLock and NASSCOM Foundation in India partner on the Cyber Security Skills Development Initiative for Women. The program is designed to create greater opportunities for female engineering grads by equipping them with in-demand job skills.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Why Work at Acre?

Three members of the Acre US team have been waxing lyrical about why they joined the market leader in sustainability and safety recruitment and the impact it has had on their career.

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