No Barriers, Wells Fargo Seek Alumni for the 2019 Warrior Strong: The Journey Continues Expedition

No Barriers and Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) are building a team of No Barriers Warriors alumni for the 2019 Warrior Strong: The Journey Continues expedition to Mt. Baker, a glaciated volcano in Washington State’s Cascade Mountain Range. This epic journey, designed to provide rigorous mental and physical challenges, aims to help the veterans reflect on their past, recognize their contributions to their communities, and develop a vision for their continued service.

New Report Reveals 12 Proven Practices for Advancing Frontline Women, Making Retailers More Profitable

New research from FSG on how to advance women into management roles in the retail sector. In doing so, companies are able to improve retention rates, reduce the cost of turnover, improve customer loyalty, and strengthen retailers’ performance.

Medtronic Introduces New Family Leave Policy

The Medtronic Family Care Leave (FCL) Policy took effect May 1, 2018, for all full-time and part-time employees in the United States. It provides up to six additional weeks of paid time off for employees to care for sick family members or to support family impacted when a spouse, child or parent is called to active military duty. The benefit also covers mothers and fathers bonding with a new child (birth, adoptive or surrogate, and including non-birth parents). Combined with already existing parental benefits, mothers of newborns can now receive up to 14 weeks of paid time off and new fathers can receive up to 8 weeks.

UPS’s Safest Drivers Log Enough Accident-Free Miles For 200 Round Trips To Mars

UPS is celebrating National Safety Week and our Circle of Honor inductees who have driven 14 billion accident-free miles. Learn more about the 10,364 men and women who have driven 25 years without an avoidable accident.

Workplace Injuries Are Declining: Here’s How EHS Leaders Can Continue to Gain Momentum

Continue to gain momentum on declining workplace injuries with strategic and tactical advice from Antea Group.

Morgan Stanley Research Important Takeaway: Sustainable Investing Approaches Now Clearly Mainstream For Institutional and Retail Asset Owners

A 2018 survey by Morgan Stanley took the pulse of U.S. asset managers (with in-depth telephone interviews) to determine the level of adoption of sustainable investing approaches by asset managers in the United States.

General Mills to Advance Regenerative Agriculture Practices on One Million Acres of Farmland by 2030

General Mills today announced its commitment to advance regenerative agriculture practices on one million acres of farmland by 2030. The Company will partner with organic and conventional farmers, suppliers and trusted farm advisors in key growing regions to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices. A contributor to climate change, it is estimated that the global food system accounts for roughly one-third of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and 70 percent of water consumption.

How Electrical Distribution Networks Can Contribute to a Low-Carbon Future

Climate change is a rapidly growing global concern. Therefore, new, more stringent regulations to reduce CO2 emissions will be introduced to allow a massive deployment of distributed energy resources, including the incorporation of electric vehicles. Electrical distribution utilities will therefore face problems in managing their networks and will need to adopt new solutions. This paper offers modern strategies for leveraging smart grid and microgrid tools, as well as more environmentally-friendly switchgear, and a circular economy approach, in order to help electrical distribution utilities meet and exceed regulatory targets toward a low-carbon future.

Black & Veatch: With Their Surging Populaces More Technologically Savvy, Cities Must Start Planning Digitally Connected Communities

Urban centers are growing more congested. Digitalization takes deepening root in the American experience. Connected devices number into the billions, stoking the influence of consumers at the epicenter of this new on-demand, data-driven economy.

A Smart Solution to Wasted Truck Journeys

Until 2009, double-deck trailers would deliver consignments of 20 tractor cabs built at CNH Industrial’s factory in Croix, north-eastern France, to the New Holland Agriculture plant in Basildon, UK, where the manufacture of tractors is completed. Because the trailers had top decks that were fixed in place and the finished tractors were too tall to fit, they would drive back to Croix empty.