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Ecocentricity Blog: Buy Local, Except When You Shouldn’t

Energy

Here’s the problem – raising the price of solar cells in America could have a significant chilling effect on demand for solar panels in this country. That’s bad for two reasons.

What is Needed to Create a Supportive Work Environment?

Diversity & Inclusion

What should we do to make our company a better place to work? Bloomberg is known as being at the forefront in creating a positive work environment, and during his visit to Japan, we sat down for a conversation with the company’s chairman, Peter Grauer.

Giving Teen Parents the Opportunity to Become College Graduates and Professionals

Education

Generation Hope is giving teen parents the support that they need to become college graduates and professionals who will greatly impact the world that we live in.

Dare to Dream Big

Education

Upon first consideration, it might not seem the stuff of grand cinematic adventure. But could engineering secretly be an exciting, creative, heroic realm where the optimists of today are creating the life-saving, world-altering marvels that will make for a safer, more connected, more equal and even more awe-inspiring tomorrow?

Ready, Willing and "Abel"

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

When a family opens their heart to foster care adoption they not only change the path of a child’s life, they change their own path too.

Summertime Energy Saving Tips & Tricks

Energy

With the hot summer months upon us, many homeowners find their energy bills rising. Fortunately, there are a few simple tips and trick you can do – from changing air filters to utilizing a programmable thermostat and more – to cut back on energy consumption and costs, while maintaining individualized comfort at home.

Connie Lindsey of Northern Trust Speaks at Girl Scouts of WI SE Celebrate the Promise Event

Events, Media & Communications

Celebrating the Promise with keynote speaker Connie Lindsey during Girl Scouts of WI SE. Girl Scouts of WI SE celebrated 100 years!

Domtar’s Sustainability Report Highlights Progress in Long-Term Strategy

Environment

Less waste, lower greenhouse gas emissions, fewer workplace injuries. Less of each of these means a more sustainable business and highlights how Domtar is working smart for the long term.

Our newly released 2017 Sustainability Report details our efforts to take a longer term view of creating and preserving value for our shareholders, customers, employees and communities.

Green Building Initiatives Continue Following U.S. Departure from Paris Agreement

Green Infrastructure

In light of the U.S.’s recent decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, some are wondering what kind of impact, if any, it will have on businesses and developers who have already pledged to keep their assets carbon-neutral.

GreenMoney's 25 Year Journey - Influencing Capital and Corporations

Where did this begin for me? Was it watching the “Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau,” or the ecology flags we pasted on our bumpers in the early 70s? Or that public service TV spot of the canoeing Native American tearing up as he looked at the litter along the river. Or maybe it was those smog alerts in LA where I grew up.

Achieving the UN’s Global Goals: How Nestlé Plays its Part

Sustainable Development Goals

At Nestlé, we understand that for our company to be successful in the long term, we have to create value not only for our business, but for everyone we touch. Those include billions of people from the farmers who grow our ingredients and the families that enjoy our products to the communities where we live and work and the natural environment upon which we all depend. It is our business to deliver food and enhance the quality of life, but we want to ensure that the people we work with on that journey also benefit.

Next-Generation Blueprints for Reporting, Accounting, Data & New Business Models Unveiled at 4th International Reporting 3.0 Conference  

Events, Media & Communications

The conference hall at KPMG Headquarters in Amsterdam buzzed with excitement at the 4th International Reporting 3.0 Conference, where “positive maverick” experts gathered to outline an ambitious agenda for triggering the emergence of a regenerative and distributive global economy through reporting, accounting, data, and new business models.

RESEARCH RESULTS: Using The GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework Improves The Quality of ESG Disclosures - Joint Research From G&A Institute and Baruch College Shows 

Research, Reports & Publications

Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. is the data partner for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the United States, United Kingdom, and The Republic of Ireland. In this role the Institute monitors, collects and analyzes every sustainability report published in these three countries. The results of this pro-bono work help to feed the GRI's "Sustainability Disclosure Database," the largest sustainability database in the world, with 41,734 sustainability reports as of June 30th, 2017.

How Can We Empower 100 Million People to Create a Better Future for Themselves?

Sustainable Development Goals

The path to a brighter future can be as easy as one, two, three if you: (1) have access to quality education that leads to (2) knowledge and skills that (3) opens doors to greater economic opportunities. But for 330 million children across the world, learning basic skills, like math, reading and writing, is not happening. That lack of education puts these children at a severe economic and social disadvantage when they become adults—feeding the cycle of poverty.

Warranty Solutions and the Arbor Day Foundation Celebrate the Planting of More Than 1.7 Million Trees

Environment

Warranty Solutions through its partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation is pleased to announce that together we have planted more than 1.7 million trees in our nations forests.

Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Launches New Website

Media & Communications

The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship's new mobile-friendly website provides the insight, research, and executive education opportunities to help corporate citizenship professionals Know More, Do More, and Achieve More.

Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia, Republic Services Empower Sharswood Community through Neighborhood Clean Up

Social Impact & Volunteering

On July 15, Republic Services’ Philadelphia team partnered with Habit for Humanity’s local chapter @HabitatPhilly on home repairs and #community cleanup in #Sharswood.

Kualo Switches to 100% Renewable Energy, Certified by Green-e Marketplace

Energy

Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) today announced that web hosting company, Kualo, has purchased enough Green-e Energy certified clean energy to power 100% of its U.S.–based operations, including data centers. The purchase from Native Energy is sourced from renewable energy certificates from wind farms throughout the U.S.

National Grid Wins Interactive Media Award (IMA)

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Recognized for attaining the highest standard of excellence in website design and development, National Grid’s First Responder Utility Safety Training website, firstresponder.ngridsafety.com, has won the Interactive Media Award’s “Best in Class Award” with an overall score of 482 out of a possible 500.

Boeing Recognized for Environmental Leadership by Local, National Organizations

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Boeing’s environmental leadership and actions have earned awards and recognitions for factory and facility operations as well as for our products.