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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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Innovation & Technology

What We Can Do Today to Promote Better Connected & Automated Technologies Tomorrow

Automated vehicles and connected infrastructure promise smarter, safer transportation networks.

Diversity & Inclusion

In Her Element - Susie Wolff

Get to know our trailblazer Susie Wolff, the first and only woman Formula E Team Principal. Susie joins #HPEDiscover to tell her story of how she's ensuring the next generation of women have a place in the pitlane

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Research, Reports & Publications

Hershey's 2020 Cocoa & Forests Initiative Annual Report Shares Progress Toward Ending Cocoa-Related Deforestation

Our 2020 Cocoa & Forests Initiative Annual Report shares progress toward ending cocoa-related deforestation.

Innovation & Technology

Xylem Expands Investment in Next Generation of Water Innovators

Global water technology company, Xylem (NYSE:XYL), is expanding its investment in youth innovation to empower the next generation to solve the world’s greatest water challenges.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

5 Ways You Can Support Those in Need in Afghanistan

The scenes of thousands of Afghans desperately pleading for assistance and running for refuge as the Taliban solidified rule over Afghanistan for the first time since 2001 have been broadcast across the world and left it reeling.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Nurturing a More Impact-Minded Workforce

Adam Robinson, ViacomCBS’s VP of Corporate Social Responsibility, shares why volunteering matters so much to his team, especially over the past year and a half, and how to maintain the impact and engagement of projects when going virtual.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Ecocentricity Blog: Net Positive: Leaving the World Better Than You Found It

The business world has seen environmental action start with compliance, then to “beyond compliance,” stretch goals, measuring sustainability, measuring net zero, and now to “net positive.”

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Supporting Team Rubicon's Disaster Relief Mission in Haiti

Following the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti Saturday, American Airlines is partnering with Team Rubicon to offer assistance to the country.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

RW Staff Picks: Our Favorite Books Selected for You

Our team has collected a list of books that guide and shape our business, teamwork, and transformative approach to volunteering. From entrepreneurship to social impact, this list will set you up to get the best out of life and work. Enjoy!

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

KeyBank, in Partnership With the First Niagara Foundation, Donates $1.5 Million to Support WEDI's West Side Bazaar Project

KeyBank, in partnership with the First Niagara Foundation, is donating $1.5 million to support the Westminster Economic Development Initiative’s new West Side Bazaar Project.

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Health & Healthcare

Providence Molecular Genomics Lab Utilizes Illumina Technology to Offer Genomics for All

In the future, what if you could sequence your cancer patients by the thousands, provide answers quicker, and deliver more effective treatment and better care—on a routine basis? For Providence, the nation’s third largest not-for-profit health system, that future is the present.

Gilead Sciences

Health & Healthcare

China's Red Ribbon School Provides a Refuge for Children Living With HIV

As a physician treating children living with HIV at an infectious disease hospital in Shanxi, China, Guo Xiaoping hatched an ambitious plan. His goals? To create a place for the students to learn and live.

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Energy

eTransEnergy Named by GM As a Preferred Provider for Fleet Electrification

eTransEnergy, a Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) company, today was named by GM as a preferred provider to help GM fleet and BrightDrop customers transition to electric vehicles through the GM Ultium Charge 360 service.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck Has Been Named One of the Top Employers in New York by Fortune

Fortune research partner Great Place to Work has compiled the 2021 list of the 60 Best Large Workplaces in New York. Merck was named one of 60 companies that foster supportive cultures, where employees find opportunities for growth with plenty of help from their colleagues along the way.

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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.

Black & Veatch

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.

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