Nespresso has been working to improve its environmental performance across its entire value chain, from coffee farming to end-of-life of its products. The company is continuously working on improving the energy-efficiency of its machines, the efficiencies of its operations, but also working with farmers to safeguard the environment through more sustainable practices.

As students and teachers return to school, Keep America Beautiful is ramping up its yearlong effort to increase participation in recycling by helping people across the country better understand how to recycle more and recycle right at home, at school, at work and on the go.

Sisters Meline and Arsine Baghdasarian, both cognizant system engineers for AECOM at the Hanford Nuclear Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant in Washington, United States, discuss their journey that led them to start a new chapter in their careers together.

When I am asked about leadership, I immediately think of the great leaders I have known who have exuded vision, belief and passion.

Our own Madiba embodied all three these qualities, shining a light in the dark for all of us to follow and creating a passionate, contagious belief in a better, more sustainable future for all South Africans. He demonstrated that by inspiring the inner core of those he led, a great leader can define a new reality and make possible what was previously impossible or unimaginable.

I hate the term “female entrepreneurship.” We don’t call entrepreneurial endeavors led by men, “male entrepreneurship.” We just call it entrepreneurship. Unintentionally or not, “female entrepreneurship” implies a rare, or “wow, women can start and lead businesses? Really? Since when,” distinction. The gap widens as we separate the genders into distinct categories. I’m not the only one calling for us to crack the glass for equality on this ceiling.

Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center works to collaboratively to build solutions around progressive education concepts that deal with how students actually learn. "We want to be a resource to every high school and every educator."

There was more big news on the environmental front this week, as the Obama administration announced the EPA’s new rules that regulate methane emissions from oil and gas production.