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Apr 19, 2012 1:15 PM ET - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed 14 new members to the Global Compact Board, the UN’s highest-level advisory body involving business, civil society, labour and employers organizations. The new appointments bring the total number of Board members to 31, representing all regions of the world and a wide range of industry sectors.

Apr 18, 2012 2:30 PM ET - Christopher Jurgens is the Global Partnerships Division Director in USAID’s Office of Innovation and Development Alliances. All too often, service and volunteerism are viewed as well-intentioned efforts with limited impact....

Apr 17, 2012 12:00 PM ET - “In spite of there having been a translator to help facilitate conversations, I have never been so keenly alert to my client’s body language and every nuance of expression, as well as my own,” explained Susan E. Wedge, partner, IBM’s Global...

Apr 16, 2012 3:50 PM ET - Over the next 10 weeks, we’ll be highlighting resources on multiple topics as it relates to helping your kids with safe and responsible technology use. This week, we’re featuring a few tips on parental controls and 3 of the more popular eReaders: the Nook, Kindle Fire, and the Apple iPad.

Apr 13, 2012 2:00 PM ET - A Transformative Approach to Innovation, Strategy, and Results The Natural Step Canada’s Level 1 Sustainability Course: Foundations in Strategy is an opportunity to apply the core...

Apr 11, 2012 1:00 PM ET - WindMade will be the official Sustainability Partner of the UN Global Compact’s Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro just ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio+20 (20-22 June 2012). WindMade, the organization behind the first global consumer label for organizations using wind power, has been named Sustainability Partner to ensure that the environmental impact of the event is minimized through all phases of planning and execution. This includes wind power procurement to cover 100 percent of the Forum’s electricity footprint, making it the first ever UN event to be labelled WindMade.

Apr 10, 2012 6:30 PM ET - From rural villages to the slums of Nairobi, the Kenya Water for Health Organization (KWAHO) is on a mission. That mission is to improve the quality of water that Kenyans use at home. KWAHO partnered with Hydration Technology Innovations (...

Apr 5, 2012 9:00 PM ET - (3BL Media) April 5, 2012 - MEDIA ACCREDITATION NOW OPEN More Info visit greenlivingshow.ca Media Contacts: Annette Borger 416 988-7086 /...

Apr 5, 2012 2:00 PM ET - "Space-age energy sources . . . solar energy, fuel cells, thermionic converters, and solid-state thermoelectric . . . broaden the company’s work."   - From the introduction to ...

Apr 4, 2012 6:00 PM ET - Let the disruption begin! In September, at an event launching GE’s billion dollar global campaign against cancer, a panel of health care innovators, venture capitalists and Silicon Valley luminaries...

Apr 4, 2012 2:00 PM ET - “A 50,000,000-volt biased betatron producing high-energy x-rays is expected to have value in cancer research. It weighs eight tons and is a compact version of the 135-ton betatron operated at 100,000,000 volts in the laboratory for several...