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#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Brad Ziegler

Social Impact & Volunteering

On Memorial Day weekend, people across the United States take time to thank those who serve and remember those who lost their lives while serving. D-Backs reliever Brad Ziegler makes it a year-round mission to honor servicemen and servicewomen.

Utilities Discover a New Era of Engagement as the Focus Shifts to the ‘Customer of One’

Innovation & Technology

Utilities are entering a new era of customer engagement, spawned by the growing connected device market. To be successful and sustainable, utilities should focus on creating a simple and personalized dialogue with each customer – a concept that could be described as the “Customer of One.”

Raising Awareness of Melanoma in Farmworker Communities

Health & Healthcare

The American Academy of Dermatology has designated May as National Melanoma Skin Cancer Prevention Month to raise awareness about skin cancer and increase the chances of early detection and treatment. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation supports innovative community-based programs that address inequities in cancer treatment, care and support for low income and medically underserved populations.

Avista Engages Young Women in Pizza, Pop and Power Tools Career Event

Energy

Recently, Avista participated in a local event called Pizza, Pop and Power Tools aimed at engaging young women in middle school and helping them explore different apprentice, technical and trade career paths. At the event, nearly 200 attendees experienced hands-on projects related to a particular trade.

CSX Urges Caution Around Railroad Tracks During Summer Travel Season

Social Impact & Volunteering

As AAA projects the highest Memorial Day weekend travel rate since 2005, and schools around the country begin to release their students to the freedom of summer vacation, CSX (Nasdaq: CSX) and its employees remind drivers and pedestrians to exercise extreme caution around railroad tracks.

Sodexo Teams with Atlanta Public Schools in Support of Innovative Garden Program

Education

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, is participating in a school garden-based learning program through its Sodexo-Jackmont partnership with Atlanta Public Schools (APS). The District Grown Gardens Initiative expands the taste for healthy locally grown produce and knowledge about food origins while creating a community that values healthy eating.

Darden-Audubon Partnership Is Not Just for the Birds

Environment

Researchers from Audubon Florida’s Everglades Science Center in Tavernier are working hard to restore Florida Bay, the 800 square miles of water between the southern end of Florida’s mainland and the Florida Keys. Darden pitched in by donating money toward the purchase of a new research boat

A Growing Problem (About Shrinking): Information in a Post-Moore's World

Innovation & Technology

See how researchers at Hewlett Packard Labs are re-envisioning Moore's Law.

Germany Launches €17 Billion Energy Strategy

Energy

Earlier this month, Sigmar Gabriel – Germany’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy – announced a new strategy aiming to increase energy efficiency in Germany.

Solar Installations Gain From Strategic Alliance of Overland Contracting Inc. and Schletter Inc.

Energy

New alliance combines solar mount innovator Schletter Inc. and subsidiary of global engineering and construction company Black & Veatch to serve growing solar PV market.

BT Report Reveals How Putting Purpose First Brings Business Benefits and Helps Customers, Society and the Environment

Research, Reports & Publications

The latest Delivering our Purpose report from BT shows how putting sustainability at the heart of the business is delivering against the company’s ambitious 2020 goals.

Giving Back to Austin Through the LIVESTRONG Challenge

Events, Media & Communications

As part of Team LIVESTRONG, I’m making a difference in the fight against cancer. I’ve joined with other people around the globe and across different events to raise money for the LIVESTRONG Foundation at the LIVESTRONG Challenge this October.

Jackie Bradley Jr., Craig Kimbrel, Matt Barnes and Teammates Share Field with Special Olympics and Nashoba Learning Group Athletes in Boston

Social Impact & Volunteering

Players from the Red Sox and Rockies helped kids from Special Olympics Massachusetts and the Nashoba Learning Group enjoy a day on the ball field on Wednesday.

Matt Barnes, Craig Kimbrel and Travis Shaw of the Red Sox and Jake McGee and Justin Miller of the visiting Rockies headlined a Players Trust City Clinics event at the Tufts University field for nearly 100 participants from Nashoba Learning Group, which provides individualized education, training and intervention services for students with autism.

Domtar's Sustainability Forestry Principles Featured in Corporate Responsibility Magazine

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Pulp & Paper Division President Mike Garcia met with CR Magazine at GreenBiz 2016 after his session on “A Collaborative Approach to Sustainable Forestry Management.”

Best Practices and Pitfalls of Diversity Initiatives

Diversity & Inclusion

Now, more than ever, Corporate America embraces Diversity and Inclusion (“D&I”) as a business imperative.

Toilets Change Lives Expands to India

Health & Healthcare

Naina aged 13, no longer has to wait for 8 hours to reach home before she can use a clean, safe toilet and does not miss school during her periods any more. Bhaskar, having stumbled over broken tiles and pot holes would shamefully resort to using the shrubs outside his school. Not anymore, because his school toilet is now repaired and well lit-up. Naina and Bhaskar both study in government schools where children suffered innumerable difficulties and indignities in not being able to access safe and clean toilets.

Hello Columbus – Sustainability Lunch & Learn June 21st

Events, Media & Communications

I’m heading to Columbus, Ohio, for the official opening of Arrow’s newly automated facility for processing electronics at end of life.

600 Volunteers, 1 Day and a Year of Holidays

Social Impact & Volunteering

AT&T joined Give Kids the World Village to host a volunteer day in Orlando.

Corporate Environmental, Social, and Quality Achievements Highlighted in SCS Global Services’ Latest Annual Report

Research, Reports & Publications

Millions of acres of forestland and agricultural crops worldwide, thousands of business and consumer products, and a diverse range of companies and organizations earned recognition for environmental and social achievements from third-party certifier SCS Global Services (SCS) in 2015. The SCS Annual Report, published earlier this month, shines the spotlight on steps being taken in the public and private sectors across a wide swath of industries to reduce environmental impacts, improve working conditions, and assure product quality.

Knowledge Transfer is Key to Developing Global Education Expertise

Education

In 1953, Winston Churchill said: “All the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.” Over the years, eminent scholars and educators have echoed Churchill’s sentiments: If you don’t know history, you are condemned by ignorance to repeat, rather than learn from, the lessons of the past. The World Affairs Council-Washington, DC (WAC-DC) advocates a liberal arts education approach to help prepare teachers and students to be ‘global citizens’ in our diverse, multi-cultural and interconnected world.