Mark Frohnmayer had a pretty specific checklist when he was looking to buy an electric car a decade ago. He wanted a vehicle that suited his travel needs, boasted a premium build quality and helped move the needle in terms of climate change.
In the wake of the Earth Day signing of the historic global climate agreement, more than a half-dozen leading food and beverage companies converged on Capitol Hill to press U.S. House lawmakers for federal action on climate change.
In 2010, The Coca-Cola Company launched the 5by20 initiative which aims to economically empower 5 million women entrepreneurs across the company’s global supply chain by 2020. To achieve these ambitious goals, Coca-Cola worked with TechnoServe, an international development nonprofit, to identify the number of smallholder women farmers in its juice supply chains, assess farmer needs and develop innovative programs to boost women smallholder incomes in a way that supports both Coca-Cola’s business objectives and the economic empowerment of women.
Investors gave unprecedented voting support for climate ‘stress-test’ resolutions at the ExxonMobil and Chevron annual meetings today. The resolutions, requesting that the companies stress test their business strategies against a scenario where climate change is limited to 2 degrees Celsius or less (the goal of the global climate agreement forged in Paris), received 38.2 percent shareholder support at the ExxonMobil meeting and 41 percent at the Chevron meeting, respectively.
Whirlpool Canada received the 2016 ENERGY STAR® Manufacturer of the Year Appliances award from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). Whirlpool Corporation has a long history in environmental stewardship including helping to draft the first ENERGY STAR appliance standards. The company is committed to creating water- and energy-efficient products for homes throughout Canada and the world.
Imagine a product that functions as elegantly and efficiently as anything found in the natural world. Now imagine that product is manufactured for use in buildings, which are responsible for a majority of greenhouse gas emissions, and you begin to see how a truly sustainable product, used to build a Living Building, might significantly impact climate change. That’s the idea behind the Living Product Challenge, launched by the International Living Future Institute in 2015; a challenge that was met by two forward thinking companies just one year later: Owens Corning and SIREWALL, who have received certification for the world’s first Living Products.
Recently, Avista participated in a local event called Pizza, Pop and Power Tools aimed at engaging young women in middle school and helping them explore different apprentice, technical and trade career paths. At the event, nearly 200 attendees experienced hands-on projects related to a particular trade.
Antea Group was contracted by the insurance broker for a regional trucking organization to provide an independent investigation of a major accident involving an employee of their client.
