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Environment

TransCanada Celebrates Environment Week

With TransCanada’s support, Wildlife Haven will now be able to care for a larger number of injured, sick and orphaned wildlife with a greater number of successful releases back to the wild.

Health & Healthcare

EHSxTech Conference Tackles Risks, Trends and the Value of EHS

Recently, Antea Group presented the fourth annual EHSxTech conference, hosted by Adobe in the United Kingdom on Thursday, April 14. This exclusive event offered a unique opportunity for tech industry EHS professionals to explore regulatory updates from around the globe, talk through specific environmental, health and safety needs and challenges, and discuss leading industry trends in a friendly, noncompetitive forum.

Drawing from some of the most pressing EHS and sustainability challenges facing the tech industry today, this full-day event focused on “EHS Leadership in a Changing World.”

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bill Meyer Inducted into the National Waste & Recycling Hall of Fame

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) announced that industry pillar and one of the Company’s foundational leaders, Bill Meyer, has been inducted into the National Waste & Recycling Association’s (NWRA) Hall of Fame. He was honored earlier this week in Las Vegas at Waste Expo, North America’s largest annual industry tradeshow.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Exploring the Top Three Barriers to Healthcare Plastics Recycling

HPRC recently held our spring 2016 meeting, which was graciously hosted by Johnson & Johnson in New York City. The meeting was a valuable opportunity to focus in on the HPRC mission and our projects in flight, and to redouble our efforts to enact change in the industry.

Environment

Happier Campers

Social Impact & Volunteering

Social Impact Through Employee Engagement

As one recent Fortune 500 client said in describing their one-off volunteer events, “How much engagement can you expect to build through a once-a-year volunteer event?”

Social Impact & Volunteering

Facts About Global Poverty and Education

Research, Reports & Publications

Some of the Ways Old Mutual Added Value Across Africa in 2015

The Plan is already embedding into the business. Since its launch in August 2015, we have grown strong partnerships to drive it forward and implemented key initiatives. The case studies that follow demonstrate the tangible positive impacts that we have made to date.

Innovation & Technology

Invested in: Rorus

As the recipient of BNY Mellon’s Social Finance Global Innovation Award, Rorus is moving forward with its mission to enable affordable, safe drinking water throughout the world.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: The Quotes that Stay with Us

It’s not just in our words, however, that we offer an example to others. Our actions do so as well, and often with greater impact.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

KeyBank Provides $16.2MM for 50 Units of Permanent Supportive Housing at Drexel House in Olympia, Washington

KeyBank announced it will provide a total of $16.2MM to help develop 50 units of permanent supportive housing for veterans and homeless individuals at Devoe II Housing. Living options will be provided for individuals making at or below between 30 and 50 percent of the area median income. The $16.2MM total is comprised of a $6.9MM construction loan and a $9.3MM equity investment. Aubre Dickson and Jennifer Seamons of Key’s Community Development Lending & Investing (CDLI) team arranged the financing.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Toyota Presents Community Stars

Through the passenger-side window, 83-year-old Ferne Fabis points with excitement at the new bakery set to open soon near her home in Rockville, Maryland. New people and places have always been Ferne’s passion – even after a leg injury forced her to give up her driver’s license.

Research, Reports & Publications

TD Bank Group Releases 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report

This week TD released its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report, Adapting to be the bank you need, showcasing the bank's commitment to serving the changing needs of its customers, employees, communities and shareholders.

Education

Science Ed: What Students Want

As part of the Amgen Foundation’s commitment to inspire the next generation of scientists, we partnered with Change the Equation to conduct a survey to better understand what motivates U.S. high school students to pursue a science education.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Republic Services Employees Bestowed National Driver of the Year Awards

Republic Services (NYSE: RSG) is pleased to announce that collection drivers David Bedford and Efren “Fernando” Lopez have received prestigious Driver of the Year awards in the large industrial and residential categories, respectively.

Environment

Carnival Foundation’s $2.5 Million Donation Helps The Nature Conservancy Launch Online Atlas, Protect and Manage Conservation Efforts in the Caribbean

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest leisure travel company, announced today that its second consecutive year of supporting The Nature Conservancy helped the organization continue its momentum in protecting the world’s oceans and seas. As part of achieving its 2020 sustainability goals, Carnival Corporation is providing through the Carnival Foundation a $2.5 million gift over a five-year period to The Nature Conservancy, which began in 2014.

Environment

How to Not Love the National Parks to Death

This year marks the centennial of the National Park Service, and record numbers of visitors are expected to celebrate by exploring the system’s incomparable natural, historical, and cultural resources. All those adventure seekers impact parks. But there’s a respectful way to go about it.

Health & Healthcare

U.S. Chamber Foundation Launches Health Means Business Champions Network

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, today announced the launch of the Health Means Business Champions Network. This first-of-its-kind initiative provides businesses and community stakeholders the tools they need to take action and become leaders in a movement for a healthier America.

Innovation & Technology

Sodexo Partners with Tapingo to Expand Mobile Capabilities at North American Colleges and Universities

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, and Tapingo, the leading mobile commerce application for campus dining, today announced a partnership to bring mobile ordering to Sodexo university campuses across North America.

Innovation & Technology

Using the Power of Technology to Improve Lives

Improving food production for small-hold farmers. Ensuring access to healthcare systems for newborns. Broadening the democratic process. Safeguarding access to clean drinking water. These are just four of the vital issues being addressed by winners of the proposal phase of the Living Progress Challenge.

Environment

Republic Services and The Mirage Hotel & Casino Unveil New Recycling Exhibit

A new recycling exhibit inside the Sustainability Discovery Center at Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat.

Diversity & Inclusion

Creating a Culture of Caring During National Safety Month

Every day, I see incidents and injuries around me waiting to happen. Maybe I’m clairvoyant. Or perhaps I have a heightened sense of awareness because I lead the North American Safety team for a global organization.

Innovation & Technology

Making an Impact: CNM Connect Launches Customized Outcomes Technology Services for Nonprofits

“We believe this technology will drive transformative change in our communities as nonprofits address social issues more efficiently and powerfully,” said Tina Weinfurther, president and chief executive officer at CNM Connect.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

BSR, Forum for the Future Launch Project to Inspire Companies to Go ‘Net Positive’

BSR and Forum for the Future have launched the Net Positive Project, a cross-sector coalition that aims to expand the number of companies that go beyond reducing their negative sustainability impacts to contribute in a “net positive” way to society, the environment, and the global economy.

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