Richland College, a two-year community college in Dallas, Texas, has been crowned the Grand Champion of the 2016 RecycleMania competition with a recycling rate of more than 82 percent. RecycleMania is the nation’s premier waste reduction and recycling competition among colleges and universities, managed by Keep America Beautiful.

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), the leading media company serving Hispanic America, as part of its Univision Contigo empowerment platform, today launched its third annual Pequeños y Valiosos (Young and Valuable) campaign. Launched in 2014 as a joint initiative of Univision Contigo and Too Small to Fail, the cross-platform campaign encourages Hispanic parents to engage in specific actions that will boost early cognitive and social-emotional development among young children ages 0-5.

Nearly 72,000 young adults, ages 15-39, are diagnosed with cancer every year. April is the time when we highlight the unique challenges that young adult cancer survivors face like school, jobs, dating, getting married and having children. Over the years, LIVESTRONG has interviewed thousands of cancer survivors. Many of those survivors were filmed for our website including a woman named Kim Bergeron. Kim applied to become a LIVESTRONGLeader this year and we jumped at the chance to share her survivor story again 15 years in the making.

The world’s newest country, South Sudan, is also one of the most volatile nations on the planet. After years of civil war within Sudan, a referendum held in 2011 scored a 99 percent “yes” vote for independence.

One finalist team will win the Ray C. Anderson Foundation’s $100,000 grand prize for a nature-inspired food-systems solution at Bioneers 2016.

The International Living Future Institute is thrilled to announce Living Future 2016, a cutting-edge conference that brings together leading minds in the green building movement. The goal? To shape the built environment around social justice, diversity, and equity for all people—in other words, to create a Living Future. Participants envision ways that the building industry can become a model for true sustainability and lead a shift toward ecological wholeness and urban regeneration.

What are corporations around the world doing to mitigate #ClimateChange? New whitepaper from Ingersoll Rand and GreenBiz shows it’s more than you may think. http://bit.ly/263pLl6