Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Principal Earns ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award

Apr 13, 2021 5:15 PM ET

Innovation & Technology

IVECO Signs Memorandum of Understanding With Plus to Develop Autonomous Trucks

Apr 13, 2021 5:00 PM ET

IVECO, a brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) and a pioneer in the commercialization and manufacturing of vehicles powered by alternative fuels,

Health & Healthcare

Tork Announces Strategic Partnership with APIC

Apr 13, 2021 4:45 PM ET

Tork, an Essity Brand, today announced a strategic partnership with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

Health & Healthcare

Uber, PayPal and Walgreens Introduce Vaccine Access Fund

Apr 13, 2021 4:00 PM ET

PayPal Holdings, Uber Technologies, & Walgreens Boots Alliance. launched their new Vaccine Access Fund that allows customers to donate to vaccine access efforts to help connect people without transportation to COVID-19 vaccination sites.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Rockwell Automation Sponsors U.S. Debut of Mandela: The Official Exhibition in Milwaukee

Apr 13, 2021 4:00 PM ET

Rockwell Automation is a premiere sponsor of Mandela: The Official Exhibition, which runs April 17 through August 1 at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Milwaukee is the first city in the United States to host this exhibit...

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MetLife Earns 2021 Energy Star® Sustained Excellence Award

Apr 13, 2021 3:40 PM ET

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that it has received the 2021 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Social Impact & Volunteering

End-User Survey for CSR Technology Platforms

Apr 13, 2021 3:35 PM ET

[SURVEY - Win an iPad] Do you volunteer or give through your company? We want to hear from you! The RWInstitute 2020 Corporate Volunteering, Giving, and Grants Technology Review is now underway, and it won’t be the same without your perspective.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

National Volunteer Month: Team Depot Continues to Give Back

Apr 13, 2021 3:30 PM ET

Working alongside our nonprofit partners, Team Depot associates invest their time and energy serving the communities we live and work in. To date, The Home Depot Foundation has improved 50,000 veteran homes and facilities across 5,000 cities.

Environment

World Water Day: On the Frontlines - Cornelis Groot, Global Technical Leader for Water

Apr 13, 2021 2:35 PM ET

What does valuing water mean to you? We asked that question of Dow people who are on the frontlines of implementing the company’s water strategy. See what they had to say.

Environment

A Sweet Year: The BUZZ Around the Cisco Beehives in RTP

Apr 13, 2021 1:40 PM ET

Time has buzzed by – especially if you are a Cisco honeybee. Last year, we installed beehives near our Research Triangle Park campus to support the growing pollinator population in North Carolina.

Events, Media & Communications

Help Make-A-Wish Deliver Hope to Children With Critical Illnesses. Celebrate World Wish Day 2021 by Creating Hope.

Apr 13, 2021 1:30 PM ET

Every year, Make-A-Wish, the organization that grants life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses, celebrates World Wish Day® on April 29, the anniversary of the wish that inspired the founding of Make-A-Wish in 1980.

Events, Media & Communications

ESG Insider: Why Companies, Investors Should Be Worried About Water

Apr 13, 2021 1:05 PM ET

World Water Day was March 22nd, and we’re marking the occasion by looking at the looming threat of water scarcity and the lack of investor appetite for financing water-related projects.

Events, Media & Communications

American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Webinar, “LCA and Science Based Targets.”

Apr 13, 2021 12:55 PM ET

Are you ready to tackle your Science Based Targets (SBT) progress? WSPUSA experts Jordan Chamberlain and Julie Sinistore cover the basics of how life cycle assessment (LCA) can be used to inform SBT setting and progress tracking at the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment webinar, “LCA and Science Based Targets.”

Health & Healthcare

Smarter Technology Is Turning Deadly Venom Into Potential Medicine

Apr 13, 2021 12:25 PM ET

Dr. Zoltan Takacs uses a ThinkPad to analyze some of the world's deadliest toxins and turn them into medicine leads. Most people avoid venomous creatures. Dr. Zoltan Takacs has spent his life chasing them.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Takeda Manufacturing Site in Belgium Pioneering Wastewater Recycling for Production

Apr 13, 2021 12:00 PM ET

Our manufacturing site in Lessines, Belgium, is pioneering wastewater circularity in the pharma industry. The facility installed a water treatment system which will be used to supplement fresh water for the drug production process...

Education

Equitable Digital Financial Education Keeps Students Engaged and Grows Knowledge

Apr 13, 2021 12:00 PM ET

April is Financial Literacy Month, the perfect time to face the fact that the United States has a problem with finances and now is the time do something about it.

Diversity & Inclusion

Ninety One Continues Expansion Across Us Institutional Team With West Coast Hire

Apr 13, 2021 11:35 AM ET

Ninety One Continues Expansion Across US Institutional Team with West Coast Hire as Sasha Talcott joins firm, based in Los Angeles

Innovation & Technology

Sustainable Innovation Starts at Home: The Singapore Story

Apr 13, 2021 11:30 AM ET

Sir Isaac Newton was at his best when he was working from home. The legend goes that when the polymath stayed at home to avoid the plague of 1665, he discovered the laws of gravity, optics, and invented calculus.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

O-I Lauds Glass as 'Packaging Choice of the Future' in High-Profile Report

Apr 13, 2021 11:30 AM ET

If you’re worried about the future of the planet and concerned about the health of your loved ones, don’t compromise: choose glass packaging.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Hormel Foods and Safeway Donation Commemorates One-Year Anniversary of Oakland's First Contactless Drive-Through Food Distribution

Apr 13, 2021 11:30 AM ET

As Easter and spring break approach, donation of 10,000-plus hams and jars of peanut butter will help Alameda County Community Food Bank serve record need.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Pentair Earns 2021 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence Award

Apr 13, 2021 11:10 AM ET

Pentair is proud to announce it received the 2021 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award for continued leadership and superior contributions to ENERGY STAR.

Environment

310 Businesses and Investors Support U.S. Federal Climate Target in Open Letter to President Biden

Apr 13, 2021 11:05 AM ET

310 businesses and investors with a footprint in the U.S. signed an open letter to President Biden indicating their support for the Biden administration’s commitment to climate action, and for setting a federal climate target to reduce emissions.

Innovation & Technology

Improving Road Safety With Homologation of Electric Vehicles

Apr 13, 2021 11:00 AM ET

In the world of connected and portable devices, rechargeable devices are part of our everyday life.

Environment

State Farm to Help Forests and Communities Recover Through Partnership With the Arbor Day Foundation

Apr 13, 2021 11:00 AM ET

State Farm, America’s largest auto and home insurer, is partnering with the Arbor Day Foundation to help restore areas that have been devastated by natural disasters across the country.

Innovation & Technology

How the Edge Is Reshaping Healthcare

Apr 13, 2021 11:00 AM ET

Here's one problem the pandemic has underscored: A healthcare system that was not terribly efficient to begin with now seems stressed to the breaking point.