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Events, Media & Communications

The National Diversity Council Honors the Legacy of General Colin Powell, the First Black U.S. Secretary of State

The National Diversity Council (NDC) honors the legacy of General Colin Powell, the first Black United States (U.S.) Secretary of State, under the George W. Bush Administration (2001-2005)

Energy

Illumina Commits to 100 Percent Clean, Renewable Energy from San Diego Community Power

San Diego Community Power (SDCP), the not-for-profit community choice energy program, today announced Illumina’s (NASDAQ: ILMN) decision to opt-up to SDCP’s Power100 service tier.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Medtronic Makes Bold ESG Commitments at Inaugural Investor Briefing

In its first-ever ESG Investor Briefing, Medtronic announced new ESG targets on key sustainability focus areas and highlighted advancements in environmental sustainability, people and communities, patient safety and product quality, and corporate governance.

Health & Healthcare

6 Global Trends Critical to Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Merck recently hosted an expert panel of patient advocacy leaders from around the world to discuss shifts in health care and the impact on patients during the next phases of the pandemic. Special Report: COVID-19 and the Patient Perspective summarizes the panel conversation.

Innovation & Technology

MTM Tecnologia Expands Free Mobile App To Facilitate Safe Blood Donations Across Brazil

The app, which was developed with the backing and support of Qualcomm, began in support of the Green & Yellow Blood Project, an initiative by a group of Brazilian organizations to encourage safe donations during the global health crisis.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Enbridge ESG Forum 2021: Community

At Enbridge, our values of safety, integrity, respect and inclusion are central to how we do business. By living our values, we can enrich communities, advance Indigenous reconciliation, and build bridges to a more inclusive and prosperous future.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Creating an Organizational 'Ecosystem' for Effective Asset Management

Successful programs make asset management a permanent part of day-to-day activities and have fully committed senior leadership, allowing the organization to stay focused, even during times when funding and resources may be constrained.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Could a Bank's $20 Million Investment Add Up to Better Days for South Chicago?

Fifth Third Bank will be making a three-year, $20 million investment in the South Chicago neighborhood.

Innovation & Technology

This Tool Teaches Children and Families to #BeCyberSmart

Through the PTA Connected initiative and with The Smart Talk tool, Kim Allman explains how families have the resources to make Cyber Safety easy and to end cyberbullying for good.

Innovation & Technology

FedEx Teams Up With Aurora and PACCAR to Test Autonomous Linehaul Technology

FedEx recently announced it will kick off a collaboration with Aurora and PACCAR to test Aurora’s autonomous driving technology in PACCAR state-of-the-art Autonomous Vehicle Platform (AVP) equipped trucks within FedEx linehaul trucking operations.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Schneider Electric in Universum's Top-25 World's Most Attractive Employers

Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, is one of the World’s Most Attractive Employers in Engineering, according to students worldwide.

Environment

Scott Budden: Farming Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay

Innovation & Technology

Letter to the G20: Why Digital Holds the Key to Meeting Global Challenges

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Johnson & Johnson Named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies List

Time chose Johnson & Johnson for inclusion on its first-ever list of TIME100 Most Influential Companies. An extension of the TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people, the list singles out 100 companies positively impacting the world.

Education

Rockwell Automation Connected Enterprise Lab Opens at Cleveland State University

Cleveland State University’s Washkewicz College of Engineering celebrated the grand opening of the Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) Connected Enterprise Laboratory on Sept. 28.

Innovation & Technology

Keysight Unveils Industrial Visibility Solutions for Electric Utility Market

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced a new series of Industrial Visibility solutions

Sustainable Development Goals

Workiva's Commitment to Building a Better Future

As a cloud-based platform provider, our value chain is simple. It demonstrates the priority issues we identified in our materiality assessment, and where our business practices create value impact to our stakeholders and society in alignment with the UN Sustainability Development Goals.

Environment

What Facebook's Water-Positive Goal Means for Water-Stressed Communities

About 95 percent of the western U.S. is now under drought conditions, and southwestern states — Arizona, Nevada and Utah, as well as parts of California, Colorado and New Mexico — are suffering a “megadrought” that has been building for over 20 years.

Education

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Award $10,000 to 2021 Stronger Than Hate Challenge Winners

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation), and Discovery Education today announced the winners of the 2021 Stronger Than Hate Challenge.

Diversity & Inclusion

Creating a Smarter, More Inclusive Future for All

At Lenovo, we have a vision to provide smarter technology that builds a smarter, more inclusive future for our colleagues and communities.

Diversity & Inclusion

In Case You Missed It: Creating Equitable Access to Capital for Black-Owned Businesses

Lynette Bell, president of Truist Foundation, spoke to the necessary relationship-building between banks and communities on the “Creating Equitable Access to Capital” panel for the Yelp annual Black in Business Summit.

Health & Healthcare

Celebrating the Science That Transforms Patients' Lives

At BMS, we translate big ideas to scientific advances that transform patients’ lives by asking good questions, learning from experiments, leading clinical trials, and listening to patients at every step of the way.

Media & Communications

Business Sustainability Risk and Performance Index 2021

See key findings from the fifth edition of the Business Sustainability Risk and Performance Index: Insights from Global Supply Chain Ratings, which examines the sustainability performance of more than 46,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis during the period 2016-2020. All in a bite-sized infographic format.

Energy

PSEG Joins UN 'Race To Zero' Initiative, Commits to Setting Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets

PSEG announced that it has joined the Business Ambition for 1.5°C and the Race to Zero campaigns and commits to developing science-based targets.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Emergency Response
    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  2. Special Economic Zones
    Driving awareness of Special Economic Zones.
  3. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  4. SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights
    Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...
  5. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  6. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  7. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  8. Global Heat Reduction Initiative
    News and updates from the Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR).
  9. Food Systems and Livelihoods
    Illustrate how resilient food systems and economic empowerment enable long-term food security. Cover climate-smart agriculture, local market access...
  10. Antea Group Brand
    Antea Group Brand Content
  11. Sustainable Operations
    As a global organization with more than 300,000 products and employing 20,000 people across more than 60 countries, we recognize the importance of...
  12. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  13. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  14. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is embedded in our company values. We actively promote it among our employees, raise awareness, and foster an...
  15. Supply Chain Dive AI Playbook 2025
    Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept – it’s already transforming supply chains end to end. In a new Playbook developed by DP...