Innovation & Technology

A Young Mind, an Improbable Idea and the First Paper Made in Space

Georgia-Pacific Corporation

Innovation & Technology

The Electrification and Decarbonization of 55 Water Street

Trane Technologies

Congratulating a Friend on a Job Well Done

Last week, I got to celebrate the Winter Solstice in another form.

Domtar Continues to Improve its Employee Safety

Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide variety of fiber-based products, including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers, and absorbent hygiene products.

Give Once, Support Many with America's Charities New Cause Funds

The world of philanthropy is changing – in the workplace and at home. Donors want more charitable choice. They want their hard-earned dollars invested in effective, reputable charities that are tackling major issues of critical importance. They want to amplify the impact of their charitable donations. And more and more people want to support a cause, not just an institution. We’ve paid attention and are happy to announce that we just launched new Cause Funds that allow a donor to do all those things and more. Our new Cause Funds are the latest in America’s Charities offerings to donors who want to make a significant difference both inside and outside of the workplace.

Bloomberg Philanthopies: Using Data and Innovation in Los Angeles

Innovation teams (i-teams) are in-house innovation consultants who use the tested Innovation Delivery approach to help mayors and other partners solve cities’ biggest challenges. We have invested in more than a dozen i-teams around the world, and recently caught up with the Los Angeles i-team to share their story. They are rethinking neighborhood revitalization and testing ways to make neighborhoods inclusive even as they change.

America’s Charities Announces New Cause Funds This Giving Season

Just in time for the peak giving season, America’s Charities, a mission-driven organization that drives collective impact by connecting nonprofits with companies and donors for 35 years, today announced new Cause Funds that enable donors to invest in an entire cause with a single donation.

Fox and Microsoft Announce Grand Prize Winners of 'Hacking Mars' STEM Design Contest

Microsoft has named Matt Marshall, Nis Bojin, and Dallas Kasaboski the winners of the Hacking Mars Design Challege, a unique online science and technology competition launched in September and developed exclusively around the Twentieth Century Fox film The Martian. Marshall's team created devices called Modular Sensors, which monitor radiation levels, temperature, atmospheric pressure, oxygen, and more in the Mars station that Mark Watney (Matt Damon) inhabits in the film. The team collected $25,000 in prize money and flew to Microsoft's headquarters in Seattle to experience the company's groundbreaking Hololens technology.

Interview with Mario di Loreto, People Value Director at Telecom Italia

GRI’s Sustainability and Reporting 2025 project is designed to promote an international discussion about the purpose of sustainability reporting and disclosures looking ahead to 2025.

Call for Nominations for GRI’s Due Process Oversight Committee

We are seeking five senior individuals of integrity and high reputation to join GRI’s inaugural Due Process Oversight Committee (DPOC). The DPOC has primary responsibility for ensuring that the standard-setting activities of theGlobal Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) are conducted in accordance with its due process, in order to increase public and stakeholder confidence that the standards are responsive to the public interest.

Five Pathways for Integrative Business: SustainAbility’s New Report

Many companies believe that sustainability is integral to their business, but in reality only a few of them have fully embedded sustainability into their business models.

Five CSR Trends to Watch for in 2016

Companies worldwide will have to navigate through new CSR requirements. In India, for instance, the India Companies Act, a legislation passed into law in 2013, mandates that companies of a certain size donate 2 percent of their net profits generated by the Indian entity to social impact initiatives.

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