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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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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

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

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

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Diversity & Inclusion

Dow CEO: Coming Out Made Me a More Inclusive Leader

To kick off Pride 2021, our chairman & CEO, Jim Fitterling, sits down with Catalyst Inc. to share his experience being one of the few openly gay CEOs of a Fortune 500 company and why being able to bring one’s whole self to work is so important.

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Health & Healthcare

Lenovo Technology Helps Ducati With New Safety Innovations

Technologies from in-suit airbags to machine-learning based simulations of tire consumption are helping ensure MotoGP isn’t just the most exciting it’s ever been – it’s also the safest. With powerful data-wrangling technology from Lenovo, Ducati engineers are working out how to predict what happens when the rubber meets the road and avert crashes in the process.

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Green Infrastructure

LG Pledges Transition to 100 Percent Renewable Energy by 2050

LG Electronics Inc. made public its commitment to transition completely to renewable energy by 2050 as a key component of its sustainability strategy

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Environment

Industrial Hygienists Can Help Guide Us Into a Safe Future of Work

With the current state of the world, expertise around environment, health, and safety within the workplace feels more critical and urgent than ever before. This blog shines a light on the important role of Industrial Hygienists.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

FedEx and the Culture of Giving Back

Sadly, food insecurity still affects the lives of too many Canadians, and it continues to be a critical issue throughout the COVID-19 crisis.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Meet Pastor Rudy, an Inspiration to Poor and Underserved People in Houston, Texas

P&G closes out their Leading with Love series with Pastor Rudy Rasmus, founder of Bread of Life and their support from Matthew 25: Ministries. They began providing provisions for The Bread of Life after Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and has continued their support.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Highland Park Youngsters Meet Gas Construction Team

The “Tiny Titans” and “Wonder Kids,” of the Yellow Brick Road Nursery & Preschool in Highland Park, New Jersey, were curious about the backhoes and other heavy machinery that recently started to appear on the block in front of their school.

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Media & Communications

Crystal Clear Now - ESG Focus Must Be at the Top of the Corporation, for the Board Room & Executive Suite

Remember those 1970s /early ‘80s ubiquitous TV commercials with the tag line, “When EF Hutton Speaks, People Listen?” The point was that when the EF Hutton financial services firm “said” something about investing possibilities, we would be wise to sit up and listen carefully to the advice.

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Education

Henkel North America Continues Commitment to Educate the Next Generation

Henkel North America has announced it will be awarding 35 outstanding students with scholarships via the Henkel Corporation Scholarship Program and the newly established Henkel Diversity Scholarship Program.

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Health & Healthcare

Saying No to Mum Guilt

For a while now I have wanted to share some of the things I have learnt over recent years in the hope it will help someone else. The most significant of all my life experiences seems an obvious place to start – becoming a mum. ​

Social Impact & Volunteering

Mohawk Team Members Volunteer at Local STEM Camps

Summer break means summer camps! Mohawk team members are helping with Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy’s middle school STEM camps.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Taproot Plus Global: Join a International Community of Virtual Volunteers

Make a difference by donating your professional talents to charities in need of your unique marketing, strategy, HR, tech, or finance expertise. Register now for Taproot Foundation's Wednesday, August 4 webinar on virtual volunteering. 

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Planet Foundation Campaign Raises $1.1 Million to Alleviate Poverty Around the Globe

For two weeks during June 23 and July 6, shoppers donated $1,114,474 to Whole Planet Foundation at the registers in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. to alleviate poverty in countries supplying Whole Foods Market stores with products

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

National Grid Joint Venture Secures $150 Million Portfolio Revolving Facility to Advance Multiple U.S. Renewable Energy Projects

Facility secured by Emerald Energy Venture will help fund part of the construction of a mix of solar, battery storage and wind projects being developed across the U.S. by National Grid Renewables

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

PayPal Deposits $135 million in Financial Institutions Serving Black and Underserved Communities as Part of $535 Million Commitment to Advance Racial Equity

PayPal Holdings, Inc. recently announced it will deposit $135 million of its capital into mission-driven financial institutions and management funds that help underserved communities of color to fight barriers to economic equity, including Hope Credit Union,  OneUnited Bank, Self-Help Federal Credit Union, CNote's Wisdom Fund and various smaller institutions through a CNote Promise Account.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Securing Land Rights for Female Farmers in India

Tetra Tech’s Thais Bessa shares how an innovative partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and PepsiCo is supporting female farmers to gain access to land and farming skills to play active and productive roles in the potato supply chains in West Bengal, India.

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Energy

New Analysis Shows Continuing Declines in U.S. Power Sector Air Emissions - Alongside Jump in Renewable Generation

U.S. power sector carbon dioxide emissions fell 10% between 2019 and 2020 according to a new analysis released today.

Health & Healthcare

Consumer Desire for 'Better for You' Beverages Persists Through Pandemic

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers were starting to seek products to cultivate a more holistic lifestyle, but when the pandemic arrived, and people were forced to assess all levels of their health.

Health & Healthcare

Roadblocks And Motivators To Men's Health

Whether due to reluctance, being busy or apprehension, doctor visits do not rank high on men’s priority lists. In fact, Aflac’s 2021 Men’s Health Issues Survey found 45% of men did not go to the doctor for an annual checkup in the past 12 months.

Diversity & Inclusion

Encouraging Diversity and Inclusion: The Vibrant Colleague Resource Group

Mariana Rivera talks about the inspiration behind the creation of Vibrant, its alignment with the values of Clarivate, and the initiatives colleagues have been involved in during Vibrant’s first year of existence.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Life Creates Conditions Conducive to Life

No matter how much we might foul her, nature will continue her laborious work to clean herself, to renew herself, and to become more resilient. And most amazingly of all, she doesn’t hold a grudge against our rebellious little species.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Chevron and Cummins Announce Strategic Collaboration on Hydrogen

The MOU provides the framework for Chevron and Cummins to initially collaborate on four main objectives: advancing public policy that promotes hydrogen as a decarbonizing solution for transportation and industry...

Diversity & Inclusion

Advancing Racial Equity through Entrepreneurship

Comcast NBCUniversal joined leading changemakers on a panel focusing on the Intersection of Entrepreneurship and Racial Equity at the 2021 Social Innovation Summit.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Ecofin Strives to Make a Positive Impact Without Compromising Returns

The impact of addressing sustainability issues, from climate change to racial and social justice, has become a compelling investment case and, not factoring these issues represents an investment risk.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

American Airlines Receives Top Score on the 2021 Disability Equality Index

For the sixth year in a row, American Airlines received a top score of 100 on the Disability Equality Index® (DEI) and is named one of the best places to work for disability inclusion in 2021.

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