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Social Impact & Volunteering

Xylem Watermark Volunteers Participate in Rewards Trips in Cambodia and Costa Rica

In recognition of their outstanding volunteer service with Xylem Watermark in 2018, employees were invited to attend the 2019 Volunteer Rewards Trips in Siem Reap, Cambodia and Tamarindo, Costa Rica in November.

Diversity & Inclusion

“Military Makeover” Series From Lifetime TV Visits Kingsport Mill

Domtar’s support for and appreciation of military veterans extends from corporate headquarters to our pulp and paper mills. Now we have an opportunity to highlight some of our veteran colleagues on The “Military Makeover”

Research, Reports & Publications

G&A Institute Releases Analysis of The Business Roundtable Companies’ ESG Reporting Practices

Governance & Accountability Institute’s research team examined the ESG / sustainability reporting practices of the BRT signatory corporations to examine trends and create a baseline for tracking progress and actions going forward.

Energy

Battery Project Will Stabilize Solar Power

A new 650-kilowatt, 2.7-megawatt-hour battery works as a buffer to level out power fluctuations caused by changes in the sun’s intensity, and provides stabile electricity for Alliant Energy customers.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Literacy is Priceless

Teaching adults in Côte d’Ivoire how to read and write helps them gain an income and reduces child labor. Read Béatrice's story:

Social Impact & Volunteering

VIDEO | A Child's Life Was on the Line

When two-year-old Brooklyn needed a lifesaving liver transplant, her parents fought against time and a blizzard to get from Memphis to Chicago. They almost didn’t make it — until a phone call to FedEx sparked a chain of events that cleared the way.

Innovation & Technology

Experts Are Curbing Pollution by Crunching Numbers

As technology evolves, more sensors on fast networks will help to track contaminants in near-real time. Learn how the big data from those sensors is being put to use to improve quality of life and reduce pollution.

Research, Reports & Publications

Tree City USA: Celebrating the Importance of Urban Tree Canopies

The Tree City USA program has strengthened and sustained urban forests across the country thanks to support of Foundation members and partners. From the Gulf of Alaska to the Gulf Coast, more than 155 million Americans are living in Tree City USA towns and cities that pay particular attention to tree planting, management, and care.

Research, Reports & Publications

Advancing Corporate Sustainability in the Philippines

The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been acknowledged for their efforts to raise the sustainability reporting capacity of businesses, for which GRI has provided wide-ranging support.

Research, Reports & Publications

New BCG Report: Sustainably Securing the Future of Agriculture

Across the world, agriculture plays a crucial role not only in supplying food, but in shaping rural areas, preserving landscapes and cultural practices and heritage.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

ASPCA® Participates In The Subaru Share the Love® Event For Twelfth Year In A Row

For the twelfth year in a row, the ASPCA® is participating as a national charity partner in the 2019 Subaru Share the Love® Event, which will benefit thousands of animals across the country through animal welfare events in local communities.

Social Impact & Volunteering

ON Semiconductor Holds First CSR Day

To showcase and educate employees on local and global efforts, we held our first-ever CSR day during our annual Responsibility Week in early November, with CSR activities taking place around the world.

Green Infrastructure

Carnival Corporation Pilots Food Waste Bio-Digester Technology to Improve Environmental Compliance

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest leisure travel company, recently announced it is pilot-testing food waste bio-digester technology to improve environmental compliance and the food waste disposal process

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Mohawk Veterans Haul Load for Wreaths Across America

For Ronald and Lea Eppich, Wreaths Across America is personal.

The Eppichs, who are Mohawk truck drivers and Calhoun residents, know firsthand how much it means to the families of fallen soldiers when a wreath is placed at their graves each year.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Getting Corporate Human Rights Regulations Right Means Finding a “Smart Mix”

We’re in an age where anyone with a cell phone can break a story. And when it comes to human rights violations, we’ve seen time and again how one video, even one tweet, can make a public relations team struggle to respond.

Sustainable Development Goals

Moving Away from Landfills

Total solid waste to landfill (kg/admta) Beneficial use of solid waste (tonne/yr) and Intensity metrics reflect the impact per air-dried metric ton of saleable product (including market pulp).

Responsible Production & Consumption

‘Tis the Season for Giving, Receiving, and Recycling

According to estimates, Americans produce about 25 percent more waste between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day compared with the rest of the year.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

eBay for Charity Raises $1 Billion: Thank You to Our Community

eBay for Charity has reached a major milestone ahead of its 2020 goal: $1 billion in total funds raised for charities around the world.

Social Impact & Volunteering

AEG Spreads Cheer With Playworks to Host a “Day of Play” and Beautification Projects at Towne Avenue Elementary School in Carson, Calif. for Annual Service Day

In celebration of AEG’s Season of Giving, more than 300 AEG employees from Southern California came together to participate in the company’s annual Service Day on Dec. 6 at Towne Avenue Elementary in Carson, Calif.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Alliance Data Associates Help Fight Holiday Hunger

Every year during the holiday season, Alliance Data associates in Columbus, Ohio come together at the Company’s Holiday Give Back event to help eliminate student hunger over winter break.

Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainability: A Moral Case Is Now a Business Case

UN Foundation President and CEO, Kathy Calvin, shares with Verizon about the incredible work and dynamics behind the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

‘I Want to Give Back to the Next Generation of Athletes

Olympic bronze medallist Jamie Greubel poser tells olympic.org why she was so keen to be an Athlete Role Model "ARM" at the upcoming Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Lausanne 2020.

Education

The Tech Interactive and Discovery Education Launch ‘Tech for Tomorrow’

The Tech Interactive and Discovery Education partnered to create Tech for Tomorrow, an education program providing virtual access to exhibits from The Tech Interactive, Design Challenge Learning activities and interactive classroom resources.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Schneider Electric is in the Top 50 of the World’s most Diverse and Inclusive Employers in Universum’s Diversity & Inclusion Index

Schneider Electric, the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, is recognized in Universum’s Diversity & Inclusion Index (D&I Index).

Energy

Hormel Foods Announces the Completion of Solar Array at Its Swiss American Sausage Company Facility in California

The new solar array will help the environment by reducing GHG emissions by an estimated 288 metric tons per year. The emissions avoided is equivalent to removing 61 cars from the road annually or avoiding burning over 314,000 pounds of coal.

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