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Diversity & Inclusion

#WomensHistoryMonth at Cox Enterprises: Get to Know Maria Soklis

In celebration of Women's History Month, female leaders from across Cox Enterprises are sharing insights from their experience throughout the month of March. Maria Soklis is president of Cox Automotive Canada.

Environment

Living Sustainability

In this presentation (video*) Dr. Robin Kimmerer clearly and beautifully teaches us the relationship of living The Honorable Harvest to our quest to live in balance with Mother Earth; how to save ourselves by coming into relationship with Nature. She is Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York (SUNY), College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Events, Media & Communications

The Balance Between REACH and Public Disclosure: Emerging Trends in the EU

As European companies prepare to meet ongoing and new REACH registration requirements, one emerging theme being discussed at this week’s ChemCom Europe conference is having the ability to accurately trace and verify products and their components throughout the entire supply chain network.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Benevity Creates Nonprofit Community Council to Strengthen the Donor-Charity Ecosystem

Benevity, Inc., the global leader in online workplace giving, matching, volunteering and grant management solutions, launched a council of thought leaders from the nonprofit space to help shape the way people and companies connect to charitable causes that matter to them.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

FLASH REPORT: Eighty One Percent (81%) of the S&P 500 Index Companies Published Corporate Sustainability Reports in 2015

G&A Institute charted the rapid and significant uptake in corporate sustainability reporting among the 500 companies -- over the years, sustainability reporting rose from just 20% of the companies reporting in 2011 to 81% in 2015. This huge body of corporate reporting underscores the importance of setting strategies, measuring and managing ESG issues in response to growing stakeholder and shareholder expectations -- and in many cases, demands for such reporting, including information requests from major customers.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Atender el Llamado del Alce

En la entrega de hoy de nuestra serie de varias partes, compartimos con ustedes una historia de innovación social que se dio cuando nuestra mina Porcupine se comprometió con la comunidad local de las Primeras Naciones después de que un alce llegara varias veces hasta el pozo Dome.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Heeding the Call of the Moose

In today’s installment of our multi-part Get To Know Us Better series, we share with you a story of social innovation catalyzed when our Porcupine mine engaged with the local First Nations community after a moose repeatedly found its way into the Dome pit.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Répondre à l’appel de l’orignal

Aujourd’hui, dans le cadre de notre série en plusieurs parties, nous partageons avec vous l’histoire d’une innovation sociale qui est le fruit d’une collaboration entre notre mine Porcupine et la communauté locale des Premières nations après qu’un orignal ait visité à plusieurs reprises la fosse Dome.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ESG Accountability: A Tangible Way of Tracking Value

During CECP’s recent Board of Boards CEO convening held on February 29th, 2016, CECP provided attending CEOs of the world’s largest companies with a comparison of financial and ESG performance, between companies that are affiliated with CECP (“CECP companies”) and other large companies in the Fortune 500 not affiliated with CECP (“non-CECP companies”). Discover with us the most compelling findings.

Diversity & Inclusion

World’s Largest Corporate Sustainability Initiative Says No to All-Male Panels

United Nations Global Compact Executive Director Lise Kingo announced the UN Global Compact Panel Pledge, a new global effort to help put an end to all-male panels.

Social Impact & Volunteering

TWC Prepares to Open 20th Learning Lab in New York City

Next month, Time Warner Cable will open its 20th Learning Lab at the Chinese-American Planning Council in Flushing, Queens. Our Learning Lab initiative provides underserved New York City residents with access to free WiFi and state of the art computers, through partnering with local nonprofits.

Health & Healthcare

Beware Hazards in Healthcare: New Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals

Recently proposed EPA regulation provides a streamlined approach for healthcare facilities to better manage their hazardous pharmaceutical waste. To prepare for these changes, healthcare facilities, including manufacturers, distributers, pharmacies and retailers of pharmaceutical products in the USA will need to make operational adjustments around notification, training, record keeping and reporting.

Environment

Interstate Cooperation in the Clean Power Plan Live Webinar hosted by Bard CEP

On March 16th, Dr. Dallas Burtraw, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future will discuss interstate cooperation in the EPA's Clean Power Plan on Bard Center for Environmental Policy's live webinar series, National Climate Seminar. Dallas Burtraw is one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental regulation in the electricity sector. For two decades, he has worked on creating a more efficient and politically rational method for controlling air pollution. He also studies electricity restructuring, competition, and economic deregulation. He is particularly interested in incentive-based approaches for environmental regulation, the most notable of which is a tradable permit system, and recently has studied ways to introduce greater cost-effectiveness into regulation under the Clean Air Act

Energy

UPS Invests $100 Million in Compressed Natural Gas, CNG Vehicles and Related Infrastructure

UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced plans to build an additional 12 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 380 new CNG tractors to its growing alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. The CNG fueling stations and vehicle purchases totaling $100 million are part of UPS’s ongoing commitment to diversify its fuel sources and reduce its environmental impact.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sustainable Investing: From Bugs to Biodrying

The demand for sustainable investing has grown to the point where it vastly outstrips the supply of investment-ready projects. This imbalance is among the reasons why Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management founded this challenge in 2011. Each year, Kellogg and Morgan Stanley's Institute for Sustainable Investing present the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge, which can potentially pave the way to a career in sustainable finance for participants.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bacardi’s Sustainability Program “Greens” Thousands of Employees

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Digital Expectations

At New York Life we are implementing a new partner to handle our volunteering, giving campaign (or as I like to think of it now, marketing campaign for giving), and matching gifts programs. The process takes my breath away. I am in complete awe of how many details there are that must be gotten right. And I realize that I have very unrealistic expectations. Here’s why.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru 2015 Share the Love Event Totals Nearly $20 Million in Charitable Donations

Subaru of America Inc. has announced it donated nearly $20 million to national and local charities during its 2015 Share the Love event, a record total in the eight-year history of the campaign.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Northern Trust Named to 2016 “World’s Most Ethical Companies” List by Ethisphere Institute

Northern Trust has been recognized for the third consecutive year by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, as a 2016 World’s Most Ethical Companies honoree.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GRI & SDGs: Gender Equality

Social Impact & Volunteering

CITGO Volunteers in Corpus Christi Mark 10 Years of Cleanup Efforts at Hans & Pat Suter Wildlife Refuge

Marking their 10th year of service to Hans and Pat Suter Wildlife Refuge, Team CITGO volunteers from the CITGO Petroleum Corporation Corpus Christi Refinery recently took part in a cleanup day at the refuge to help beautify the park and protect critical habitats.

Environment

Republic Services Blue Print Waste Assessment Featured in USCCF Report

Republic Services, in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Corporate Citizenship Center (CCC) and other contributing partners prepared Trash to Treasure: Changing Waste Streams to Profits Streams to educate the private sector about the business value of circular economy opportunities.

Environment

Next Steps: Working Toward a Sustainable Food Future

New DuPont Chief Sustainability Officer Krysta Harden discusses global food security, sustainability, and the decisions that led her to DuPont.

Diversity & Inclusion

Don’t Stand on the Sidelines: Take Charge of Your Professional Experience

This week, I’m attending an event that always energizes me: the Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF) Annual Leadership Conference. I’m excited to be here with more than 3,000 other attendees, including a very special guest―Sophie Bellon, Chairwoman of the Sodexo Board of Directors and Chair of Bellon SA. We’ll be taking part in a question and answer session today on the impact of women in leadership, a subject we are both passionate about.

Environment

Antea Group Case Study: Qualitative and Quantitative Industrial Hygiene Exposure Assessments

Our client needed to conduct annual employee exposure monitoring at approximately 30 industrial facilities located around the world.

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