Luxury product consumers have increasingly become vocal about social and environmental causes, and more importantly, are willing to make a difference through their buying choices.
It's National Entrepreneur Week! Cox Enterprises recently partnered with Techstars to broaden Atlanta’s vibrant startup community and empower entrepreneurs to build great businesses. Techstars Atlanta - an accelerator program for technology startups - will select, recruit and accelerate the most innovative startups focused on technologies driving positive change in an interconnected world.
Earlier this month, the LIVESTRONG Foundation met with representatives from the Vice President’s Office and others from the Administration. Our message was clear: put the patient at the center of the Cancer Moonshot effort. Build it with people at its heart.
Art Therapy Today provides readers with the most up-to-date information about The American Art Therapy Association's (AATA) activities, current news related to the art therapy profession, and announcements pertaining to events or opportunities provided by the AATA.
Guided by a mission “to be the most innovative bank empowering the underserved to achieve,” David Reiling has grown inner city St. Paul's Sunrise Banks into a banking group with $900 million in assets, 6 branches operating in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and a national prepaid card business based in Sioux Falls, SD, representing 25 percent of revenues.
The 2016 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge is still accepting teams to compete. Finalist teams for the 2016 Challenge will be announced in October 2016 at the Bioneers Conference, where we will present the inaugural $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize to one of eight finalist teams from the 2015 Challenge.
Recently stakeholders from strategic and geographic aligned acute care and senior living organizations came together to work collaboratively to answer the question “How can hospitals and senior living providers work better together?” Attendees of The Role of Acute Care and Senior Living in an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System Roundtable, were eager to collaborate, knowing the results could be significant. As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, acute care hospitals and senior living providers are grappling with new realities: our elders are living longer and want to live healthier, while the government is challenging providers to do more with less.
Former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway (and then special envoy for the United Nations) was invited by the UN to create and manage a “World Commission on Environment and Development (“WCED”), which over time became known as the “Brundtland Commission.” The commission gave the world a framework for moving forward on what would become known as “sustainable development.”
The Major League Baseball Players Trust today announced the five recipients of a 2016 Michael Weiner Scholarship for Labor Studies, established by Major Leaguers to honor the life and work of the Major League Baseball Players Association’s late executive director.
Congratulations to the Southern Nevada Christmas Tree Recycling program for recycling more than 20,000 Christmas trees this year! A new record for Southern Nevada. #MulchMadness.
Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced that it has been named one of the "World's Most Admired Companies" for 2016 by Fortune.
The Body Shop is no stranger to CSR commitments. In fact, the beauty brand has been in the trenches on social and environmental issues since its founding in 1976.
The growing global glut of crude and corresponding collapse in oil prices are reshaping short-term market dynamics. In this environment, it is easy to forget that – long term – industries that have traditionally relied on petroleum-based feedstocks must still innovate to sustainably meet the needs of a rapidly expanding global population. A global, connected middle class – expected to roughly double by 2030 – is rapidly changing the breadth and scale of consumer demand, as well as signaling the need to rethink how we meet it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the plastics industry.
Trialogue negotiations have begun. The EU Conflict Minerals regulation is now on the radar of many companies and questions are being asked. What are some best practices companies can follow for supplier engagement? How do companies effectively perform quality Due Diligence? How do companies properly report our compliance efforts? And most importantly, which companies will be affected?
Jess Kraus, CEO and Co-Founder of Source Intelligence, was honored as a finalist. Kraus was recognized for his more than 30 years of experience and leadership in environmental and sustainability programs at some of the world’s largest brands.
Sustainable investing has traditionally been perceived as a niche asset class catering only to a select group of wealthy individuals and institutions that want to avoid controversial industries.
