Beyond Helping Hands
Who among us doesn’t remember the ubiquitous TV ads produced by the Christian Children’s Fund and Save the Children? Their images of children in dangerous states of malnutrition with the toll-free number at the bottom encouraging viewers to make a donation today to save lives were splashed across televisions throughout the United States. It was easy to think that the best way to end hunger was to give money. But what if the ads had mentioned that nearly one third of the world’s food is wasted or lost annually? How would you want to help then? What if more money wasn’t making enough of a difference?
Caterpillar Improves Safety Through Culture
We are dedicated to the safety of everyone at Caterpillar, including our extended team of contractors, dealers, suppliers and customers. Our commitment to safety begins with the engineering of our products and manufacturing processes, and extends to operator training, job site solutions and promoting a culture of safety that guides the way we work.
Getting Their Hands Dirty
Whirlpool Corporation interns joined employees to volunteer and build homes as part of the company's longstanding partnership with Habitat for Humanity.
Women's Work: Inside The Rising Trend of Female Leaders in Manufacturing
Whirlpool Corporation Manufacturing Operations Director of Clothes Dryers, Kristin Day, discusses being a female leader in an industry historically dominated by men, and the importance of being an advocate of recruiting women into manufacturing roles.
Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman Authors Chapter in State of the World’s 'EarthEd'
With global environmental changes locked into our future, what we teach must evolve. All education will need to be environmental education, but environmental education cannot focus solely on teaching everyone to live just a bit greener. Instead, it will need to both teach students to be bold sustainability leaders as well as equip them with the skills necessary to survive the turbulent century ahead.
Lichen-Inspired Carpet Awarded the Living Product Challenge Petal Certification
Jason McLennan, founder of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) and 2017 HIVE dean, worked for eight months with Mohawk to develop flooring that brought the natural beauty of lichen inside. As he explains in this short video, Mohawk now offers nine carpets that honor a series of different species of lichen with unique growing patterns and colors.
Connecting the Dots on Biodiversity and Agriculture
Companies — particularly food companies — have a role to play in promoting biodiversity in agriculture.
PNC CEO: Don’t Overlook Workers with Disabilities
Nearly one in five Americans lives with a disability. Here in the Pittsburgh region, where my company is headquartered, that works out to about half a million of our neighbors, family, friends and coworkers...
Major League Baseball Players Association & Former Players Are Determined to Cultivate Future Stars
In recent years, with the number of African-American players on MLB rosters dwindling at an alarming rate, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), its active and in-active members have become more determined to help eliminate social and economic barriers to playing the game they love.

PNC’s New CIO is Agitator-In-Chief
Values-based investing is now mainstream with a growing number of retail mutual funds and exchange-traded funds adopting some type of environmentally and socially responsible option.

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