Today the National Association for Environmental Management (NAEM) announced the launch of the EHS & Sustainability Software Ratings Project, a new research initiative to evaluate customer satisfaction with commercial software systems.
Learn about the fast growing movement of Slow Money and how it is investing in sustainable agriculture -- join us as we get back down to the earth, grounded in the soil where we grow our food and sustain our planet and its many living systems.
Antea Group's employee wellness program takes a holistic approach, emcompassing the emotional, physical and financial aspects of well-being. The firm's recent efforts around mental health and stress management were recently featured in a piece in Employee Benefit News. The article spotlights the Learn to Live program of web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (or CBT) and the Vitality program, which incentivizes healthy behaviors.
Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s leading nonprofit that envisions a country where every community is a green, clean and beautiful place to live, today announced the launch of the 2016 Great American Cleanup. Entering its 18th year, the Great American Cleanup is the country’s largest community improvement program.
Today, GRI released The Next Era of Corporate Disclosure: Digital, Responsible, Interactive, a digital publication that maps out the future of sustainability reporting and disclosure. According to GRI, the future will involve new formats with organizations moving from annual reports to sustainability data exchange, while focusing on major challenges like climate change and human rights. All of this will be coupled with a new role for stakeholders, who will be empowered by almost real-time interactions with companies. The Next Era of Corporate Disclosure is the culmination of the first year of GRI’s continuing Sustainability and Reporting 2025 project, and provides conclusive insights from these discussions.
Is renewable living the key to happiness? New data from Tetra Pak offers some compelling evidence that the answer is yes – great news leading up to International Day of Happiness on March 20.
In honor of Earth Hour, MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) will dim the exterior lights at several of its resorts, joining the global effort to raise awareness of climate change.
In celebration of Women's History Month, female leaders from across Cox Enterprises are sharing insights from their experience throughout the month of March. Maria Soklis is president of Cox Automotive Canada.
In this presentation (video*) Dr. Robin Kimmerer clearly and beautifully teaches us the relationship of living The Honorable Harvest to our quest to live in balance with Mother Earth; how to save ourselves by coming into relationship with Nature. She is Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York (SUNY), College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
As European companies prepare to meet ongoing and new REACH registration requirements, one emerging theme being discussed at this week’s ChemCom Europe conference is having the ability to accurately trace and verify products and their components throughout the entire supply chain network.
Benevity, Inc., the global leader in online workplace giving, matching, volunteering and grant management solutions, launched a council of thought leaders from the nonprofit space to help shape the way people and companies connect to charitable causes that matter to them.
En la entrega de hoy de nuestra serie de varias partes, compartimos con ustedes una historia de innovación social que se dio cuando nuestra mina Porcupine se comprometió con la comunidad local de las Primeras Naciones después de que un alce llegara varias veces hasta el pozo Dome.
In today’s installment of our multi-part Get To Know Us Better series, we share with you a story of social innovation catalyzed when our Porcupine mine engaged with the local First Nations community after a moose repeatedly found its way into the Dome pit.
Aujourd’hui, dans le cadre de notre série en plusieurs parties, nous partageons avec vous l’histoire d’une innovation sociale qui est le fruit d’une collaboration entre notre mine Porcupine et la communauté locale des Premières nations après qu’un orignal ait visité à plusieurs reprises la fosse Dome.
G&A Institute charted the rapid and significant uptake in corporate sustainability reporting among the 500 companies -- over the years, sustainability reporting rose from just 20% of the companies reporting in 2011 to 81% in 2015. This huge body of corporate reporting underscores the importance of setting strategies, measuring and managing ESG issues in response to growing stakeholder and shareholder expectations -- and in many cases, demands for such reporting, including information requests from major customers.
During CECP’s recent Board of Boards CEO convening held on February 29th, 2016, CECP provided attending CEOs of the world’s largest companies with a comparison of financial and ESG performance, between companies that are affiliated with CECP (“CECP companies”) and other large companies in the Fortune 500 not affiliated with CECP (“non-CECP companies”). Discover with us the most compelling findings.
United Nations Global Compact Executive Director Lise Kingo announced the UN Global Compact Panel Pledge, a new global effort to help put an end to all-male panels.
Next month, Time Warner Cable will open its 20th Learning Lab at the Chinese-American Planning Council in Flushing, Queens. Our Learning Lab initiative provides underserved New York City residents with access to free WiFi and state of the art computers, through partnering with local nonprofits.
Recently proposed EPA regulation provides a streamlined approach for healthcare facilities to better manage their hazardous pharmaceutical waste. To prepare for these changes, healthcare facilities, including manufacturers, distributers, pharmacies and retailers of pharmaceutical products in the USA will need to make operational adjustments around notification, training, record keeping and reporting.
On March 16th, Dr. Dallas Burtraw, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future will discuss interstate cooperation in the EPA's Clean Power Plan on Bard Center for Environmental Policy's live webinar series, National Climate Seminar. Dallas Burtraw is one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental regulation in the electricity sector. For two decades, he has worked on creating a more efficient and politically rational method for controlling air pollution. He also studies electricity restructuring, competition, and economic deregulation. He is particularly interested in incentive-based approaches for environmental regulation, the most notable of which is a tradable permit system, and recently has studied ways to introduce greater cost-effectiveness into regulation under the Clean Air Act
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced plans to build an additional 12 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 380 new CNG tractors to its growing alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. The CNG fueling stations and vehicle purchases totaling $100 million are part of UPS’s ongoing commitment to diversify its fuel sources and reduce its environmental impact.
The demand for sustainable investing has grown to the point where it vastly outstrips the supply of investment-ready projects. This imbalance is among the reasons why Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management founded this challenge in 2011. Each year, Kellogg and Morgan Stanley's Institute for Sustainable Investing present the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge, which can potentially pave the way to a career in sustainable finance for participants.
At New York Life we are implementing a new partner to handle our volunteering, giving campaign (or as I like to think of it now, marketing campaign for giving), and matching gifts programs. The process takes my breath away. I am in complete awe of how many details there are that must be gotten right. And I realize that I have very unrealistic expectations. Here’s why.
