DEA and Discovery Education Kickstart Lifesaving Conversations with Students about the Impacts of Prescription Opioid Misuse and Heroin Use by Launching Second Annual Operation Prevention Video Challenge for High School Students Nationwide
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the DEA Educational Foundation, and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, have launched the 2018 Operation Prevention Video Challenge – a peer-to-peer platform for communicating messages about the dangers of opioid misuse.
2018 CRO Global Summit Commences in Shanghai
SynTao, Mainland China and Hong Kong’s Global Exchange local authority and a leading CSR professional body will host the 2018 CRO Global Summit – Sustainability, the Engine of Future Business on January 25th in Shanghai. The Summit includes discussions around the approaches of the future of business driven by sustainability and the implementation of the SDGs in the Chinese market.

Energy & Infrastructure

Lighting Upgrades in Our Plants Increase Energy Efficiency, Reduce Environmental Impact

When team members arrive to start their day at Ingersoll Rand’s Club Car plant in Augusta, Georgia, the energy-efficient LED lights start turning on section by section as they sense movement. And as people leave an area, the motion-sensitive LED lights start dimming to save energy and then turn off entirely after 30 minutes.

Colleges Nationwide Seek RecycleMania 2018 Championship
RecycleMania, the premier collegiate recycling competition managed by national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful, is back for its 18th year as college and university campuses across the country compete to see who will claim the championship title in the fight to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost the most on campus. Registration for the 2018 RecycleMania competition will close on Friday, Feb. 2. RecycleMania will begin on Sunday, Feb. 4, with the campus competition running for eight weeks, concluding on Saturday, March 31.
The Three Things Global Leaders Need to Do to Prepare for the Next Big Economic Shift
The fourth industrial revolution is upon us. Technology, jobs, government policies, and entire economies around the world are on the edge of a massive shift. This presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for global leaders to come together and embrace new digital technologies that hyper-charge their economic prospects, create new manufacturing jobs, educate the next generation of highly skilled labor, and ultimately shape the next hundred years of our planet.
Tetra Tech-Supported Project Wins Phoenix Award of Excellence in Brownfield Redevelopment
The Tetra Tech-supported Chicago Park District (CPD) Big Marsh redevelopment project received a 2017 Phoenix Award for outstanding achievement in brownfield redevelopment at the National Brownfields Conference in December. The Phoenix Awards honor innovative projects that solve critical environmental problems and transform abandoned properties into productive sites.
Announcing Majora Carter as Keynote Speaker at Living Future unConference
The International Living Future Institute is pleased to announce Majora Carter as their third keynote speaker at the annual Living Future unConference, held this year in Portland, OR from May 1-4.

Carter is a leading urban revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer, and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation & implementation of numerous green-infrastructure projects, policies, and job training & placement systems.

She will join author and activist Raj Patel + conservationist and advocate Terry Tempest Williams as keynotes.

The Living Future unConference is the forum for leading minds in the green building movement to make strides toward a healthy future for all. To learn more and to register visit 2018livingfutureunconference.org.
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