Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company committed to improving Quality of Life, announced today that it has been recognized by U.S. Veterans Magazine (USVM) in the 2018 Summer Best of the Best List as a Top Veteran-Friendly Company and for having a Top Supplier Diversity Program.
Southern California Edison is seeking state approval for a two-year pilot program to add hundreds of new electric vehicle charging stations at schools and state recreation area parking lots.
This title may scream fake news to many of you. Yet it is true, and particularly relevant given the latest efforts to ban the plastic straw. A 2016 study found that replacing plastics in packaging and consumer products could raise environmental costs nearly fourfold. This is because strong, lightweight plastics help us do more with less material, providing environmental benefits throughout the lifecycle of plastic products and packaging. The study also concludes that the environmental costs of alternative materials can be lower per ton of production but are greater in aggregate due to the much larger quantities of material needed to fulfill the same purposes as plastics.
People are still hungry. Despite decades of increasing agricultural yields in less-industrialized regions of the world, in large part thanks to the support from international agencies such as USAID, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, hunger persists. According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, food production over the past five years has generally increased worldwide. We grow enough food to feed the world’s population. Why does food security remain so elusive? The answer to global hunger lies in the food supply chain—specifically in reducing the amount of food that rots or becomes contaminated before reaching consumers, or as it is otherwise known, “post-harvest loss.”
Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company committed to improving Quality of Life, announced today that it has been recognized by the Hispanic Network Magazine in the 2018 Best of the Best issue as a Top Employer, Top Diversity Employer, Top Disability Friendly Company, and Top LGBT-Friendly Company.
Let’s time-travel to Serbia, circa 1999: it was a time before smartphones or Wi-Fi. The largest hard disk available had a 340MB capacity and cost USD$499. Meanwhile, the volume of printed paper generated for record-keeping and the demands of the modern age was reaching new heights with each passing day. Today, every consumer product we desire is ’one click away.’
Under the leadership of Marc Benioff, Salesforce has been viewed as one of the more progressive tech companies in a sector now widely criticized for its disengagement from social concerns. The fourth largest software firm (market cap: $79 billion) has established a strong reputation for both its innovative savvy within an innovation-driven field and for promoting social causes while doing so. “Many [of its] customers like to feel they are not only buying software but doing good for the world,” Keith Weiss of Morgan Stanley told The Economist.
Keep America Beautiful and The Recycling Partnership will offer 40 communities within 10 states the opportunity to be a part of an advanced recycling workshop at WasteCon 2018, which takes place Aug. 20-23 in Nashville, Tennessee. This fully-funded training program by Waste Management will bring together key community recycling leaders from across the Southeast to improve their respective community recycling programs.
