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Schneider Electric Named 2018 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

We are excited to announce that Schneider Electric was recognized as a 2018 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year. This designation is largely the result of our efforts to improve clients’ energy efficiency and sustainability in commercial, manufacturing and public-sector buildings.

CASE STUDY | Cyber Security is Tapping Into Non-Traditional Talent

Diversity & Inclusion

To address the shortage of cyber security talent, Symantec first launched its Cyber Career Connection (Symantec C3) in 2014. It partnered with workforce development nonprofits to prepare nontraditional candidates — including women and people of color — for careers in cyber security.

The Venetian Macao Achieves Platinum-Level Macao Green Hotel Award

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

The Venetian® Macao was awarded a Macao Green Hotel Platinum Award, the first and only hotel in Macao to earn the top recognition.

One of the World’s Largest Advertisers Is Asking Brands to Help Endangered Animals

Sustainable Development Goals

Mars, one of the world’s largest advertisers, is asking other major brands to help animals at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. The company is a founding partner—along with production company Finch and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)—of a new fund, The Lion’s Share, that will help with wildlife conservation and animal welfare.

Pueblo Viejo Power Plant to Convert to Natural Gas

Energy

Pueblo Viejo, Goldcorp’s joint venture gold mine in the Dominican Republic, has just taken a huge step towards becoming a more sustainable mine. One of the world’s largest gold mines, Pueblo Vieja, operated by Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation (PVDC), a joint venture between Barrick Gold Corporation (60%) and Goldcorp (40%), announced that it has signed a 10-year natural gas supply contract, generating key cost-savings at the operation.

Seeking Sustainable Growth: GRI to Help Build Standards-based Approach for EU’s Sustainable Finance policy

The Global Reporting Initiative is appointed to EU's Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance to help build standards-based approach for EU’s Sustainable Finance policy.

Operational Excellence, Sustainable Value: Goldcorp’s 2017 Sustainability Report

Sustainable Development Goals

Our 2017 Sustainability Report, Operational Excellence. Sustainable Value., detailing our economic, environmental and social performance for the year has been published.

How the GDPR Impacts Corporate Responsibility

Innovation & Technology

The EU’s newest data protection regulation is causing sweeping changes across the globe and corporate responsibility practitioners need to take notice

Making Friends With the LA River

On June 20, 2018, the Avery Dennison corporate Green Team and employees from our headquarters in Glendale, California gathered at Bette Davis Park in Glendale to volunteer a day of service with the Friends of the LA River (FoLAR).

Duke Energy Partners with Indiana Schoolchildren to Build Rain and Butterfly Gardens at Floyd County Park

Social Impact & Volunteering

About 30 volunteers from Duke Energy paired with Floyd County third- and fourth-graders to create rain and butterfly gardens at Kevin Hammersmith Memorial Park, Floyd County’s new 35-acre park.

Gearing Up for the Holiday Giving Season? Let Giving Tuesday and Taproot Foundation Help

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

This free webinar from Giving Tuesday and Taproot Foundation will teach you how to harness the expertise of marketing, graphic design, videography, and communications professionals who want to volunteer to help your cause. Register now to attend this free event and get prepared for #GivingTuesday!

Timberland Volunteers Help First Grade Students Improve Reading Skills Through TutorMate’s Interactive Online Platform

Outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland recently offered employees at its corporate headquarters in Stratham, NH an innovative new way to serve -- from the convenience of their desks -- in partnership with TutorMate, a division of Innovations of Learning (a non-profit focused on teaching students to read).

Latest UPS Sustainability Report Shares Stories of Innovation and Progress

UPS’s 16th annual Sustainability Report highlights the company’s sustainability challenges and accomplishments during 2017, including progress toward its 2020 and 2025 goals in support of the environment, global workforce, and communities around the world.

Providing Perpetual Power in the Paradise of the Pacific

Environment

In Hawaii, the Hawaiian Electric Company and Verizon are helping build a future in which all the electricity comes from renewable sources, enabling the environment, society and the economy to thrive.

Bechtel Partners with U.S. Agency to Deliver Infrastructure Solutions for Africa-led Development

Sustainable Development Goals

Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement and construction, will work with a leading U.S.-based development agency to accelerate the growth of local infrastructure across Africa.

AEG and BET Team Up to Mentor At-Risk Students for Annual BET Experience Service Day

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

AEG and BET joined forces for their annual employee service day to mentor at-risk high school students at Inner City Education Foundation’s (ICEF) View Park Prep High School on June 21, 2018. The annual service day was in conjunction with the BET Experience at L.A. LIVE and BET Awards at L.A. LIVE’s Microsoft Theater.

How Driscoll’s Is Creating Shared Value in Berry Supply Chains

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

The buyer-supplier relationship is changing in more ways than you might imagine. Consumers and retailers are increasingly demanding that suppliers demonstrate their sustainability: How are buyers and suppliers collectively adapting to changes in the market, as well as labor and environmental pressures?

How Sustainability Initiatives Can #MoveTheDate of Earth Overshoot Day

Events, Media & Communications

On August 1, humanity will have used nature’s resource budget for the entire year, according to Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric. The Ecological Footprint adds up all of people’s competing demands for productive areas, including food, timber, fibers, carbon sequestration, and accommodation of infrastructure. Currently, carbon emissions make up 60 percent of humanity’s Ecological Footprint.

Four Million American Anglers Mobilized in Crowdsourced Effort to Collect Data and Trash from U.S. Waters This Independence Day

Environment

This Independence Day, Wednesday, July 4, 2018, Keep America Beautiful, the nonprofit steward of litter prevention for more than six decades, is partnering with Fishbrain, the world’s most popular mobile app and social network for people who love fishing, to ask the app’s over 4 million US users to undertake the largest-ever one-day crowdsourced audit of litter in the US.

KeyBank Provides $15.5 Million in Total Financing for Construction of Affordable Housing in Rochester

KeyBank Community Development Lending & Investment (CDLI) has provided $15.5 million in total financing to Home Leasing, LLC for the construction of Charlotte Square on the Loop in Rochester, NY. Key provided a $6.6 million construction loan, plus $8.9 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) equity.

The Quest for Handprints Over Footprints

Sustainable Development Goals

At one time, the world was focused on leaving a smaller footprint on our planet; we were encouraged to change our lifestyles to take less from Mother Earth. Today companies such as Mohawk, dedicated to making business decisions rooted in corporate social responsibility, talk not just in terms of footprints but in terms of handprints — of giving back more than we take.

VIDEO | Barclays Citizenship Awards: Team CXWorks - Access to Employment

Social Impact & Volunteering

Team CXWorks partnered with Tech Impact to develop a curriculum for a call centre training programme in Nevada to support unemployed young adults.

13 Stunning Trees Around the World

Environment

Nature is full of wonder and beauty. The more time you spend outdoors, the greater your appreciation is for the natural world. Trees are some of the most fascinating natural phenomena, and these rare trees around the world prove it. How many of these trees do you recognize?

Is Your Fridge Ready? Get Ready to Chill This Summer!

Environment

s your refrigerator ready for the busy summer season? Here are some simple tips to get your refrigerator in top shape for the summer months while saving food and energy costs.