Environment

How to Effectively Communicate Your Hospital Recycling Program's Successes and Lessons Learned

Communication is vital in sharing your successes and challenges, and in keeping key stakeholders engaged in your hospital’s plastics recycling program. In developing a communication plan, consider what information you want to convey, the target audience(s,) both internal and external, and ​the call to action you want to move people to take, if there is one. These issues are discussed further at the HPRC website.

Environment

6 Ways EHS FleX Helps Assess & Improve Company Culture Across Global Operations

EHS programs are most successful when they’re embedded in company culture, where employees feel they have the knowledge and encouragement to play an active role in program initiatives. Building EHS into company culture can be challenging as many EHS managers work hard to manage programs across multiple facilities on tight budgets and with limited resources. Read about Antea Group’s EHS Flex, the low-cost, fit-for-purpose solution and the 6 ways it will help assess & improve company culture.

Environment

In Africa, Natural Events and Surging Demand Place New Spotlight on Microgrids

The impact of natural disasters on power grid resilience is increasingly gaining attention worldwide. Adapting lessons learned from high-profile incidents that have occurred elsewhere for the African continent, where energy supply is already intermittent, may provide opportunities to enhance the region’s energy system reliability through smart grid infrastructure solutions.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Foundation, Employees Committed to Local Communities

Community and service are integrated into everything our company does. Through the Duke Energy Foundation, we provide philanthropic support to address the needs of communities where our customers live and work.

Environment

Consumers Energy, Cub Scouts Build Platform to Give Osprey Safe Place to Nest

Local Cub Scouts this past weekend built a nesting platform they hope will entice a pair of osprey away from using an electric utility pole for their nest site. “I asked my nephews who are members of Cub Scout Troop 3600 from the Breckenridge area if they and their scouting friends would be interested in helping give ospreys a safe place to nest,” said Darrel O’Boyle, low voltage distribution designer for Consumers Energy.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Paul Durkee Promoted to Vice President at Antea Group

Antea Group announced today the promotion of Paul Durkee to Vice President. Durkee currently serves as the President of the Inogen Environmental Alliance, a global network of environment, health, safety and sustainability consultants.

Events, Media & Communications

"Obtaining ROI from CSR and Sustainability Efforts: How to Use that Content to Achieve Measurable Results with 3BL Media” – Free Webinar, Mar. 16, 9:30 a.m. ET

The new generation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability communicators are operating in real-time and are constantly searching for ways to report on return on investment (ROI) for the efforts they work on every day.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Freeport-McMoRan Operations Receive Two Wildlife Habitat Council Awards

The Wildlife Habitat Council partners with organizations dedicated to restoring and enhancing wildlife habitat on corporate lands. Freeport-McMoRan has been a member for many years and now has 20 sites with WHC-certified habitat enhancement, conservation education and wildlife management programs.

Responsible Production & Consumption

New Timberland X Thread Collection Delivers Good With Every Fiber

Global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland today launched the Timberland X Thread collection in partnership with Thread, a Certified B Corporation that transforms plastic bottles from the streets and canals of Haiti into what Thread calls “the most responsible fabric on the planet.” The collection goes beyond environmental sustainability, creating social value and impact in the form of cleaner neighborhoods and meaningful new job opportunities. The new Timberland X Thread shoes, t-shirts and bags are available in Timberland® stores and at www.timberland.com.

Environment

Ingersoll Rand to Discuss Communicating Climate Solutions at Climate Leadership Conference

Scott Tew, executive director, Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability at Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, will speak with a global audience of climate, energy and sustainability professionals to address climate change through policy, innovation and business solutions at the Climate Leadership Conference.

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