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Environment | Antea Group

How Using Alternative Fuels in Data Centers Can Impact Air Permit Compliance

As organizations push for a more sustainable world, more and more data centers are starting to explore alternative, lower carbon emission fuel options for use in their emergency power generators. But its important to understand the implications to your air permitting compliance.

Sustainable Development Goals

How Communications Technology Is Supporting Human Rights: A Q&A With Verizon CSR Director Chris Lloyd

In this Q&A, Chris Lloyd, Verizon’s Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy, and Chair of the GeSI Human Rights Committee, shares his views on the industry’s responsibility to support human rights.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Volunteer Spotlight: Taryn Sauthoff Uses Tech Talent for Good

Taryn Sauthoff, a Viacom employee in New York, is the embodiment of Talent for Good at work. She applied her web development skills to help YoungMoms, a non-profit organization that supports pregnant and parenting young women in rural Pennsylvania, build a new website. Sauthoff completed the volunteer project in a few months and continues to collaborate with the organization.

Events, Media & Communications

Sustainable Brands Vancouver Redesigns the Good Life

Brands and organizations shared aspirational and inspirational messages and stories throughout the week – from Vancouver’s City Manager Sadhu Johnston who explained how Vancouver plans to be greenest city in the world by 2020 to REI’s ambition to awaken a lifelong love of the outdoors for all. Here are three ideas – some big and some small – that stood out to us last week:

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

eBay | Everyday Heroes: Connecting a City

Millions of people from all around the world connect on eBay. Each time that happens, something positive happens in the world. These are the stories of everyday people on eBay making an extraordinary difference in the lives of others.

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Energy

Schneider Electric | Powering the Industry of the Future

At the heart of innovation is action, and when it comes to energy management and automation, innovation means embracing digital transformation to build a more sustainable future.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Agroforestry Gives Kenyan Indigenous Community a Lifeline

The Cherangani people, an indigenous community in Kenya’s Rift Valley, have always called the Cherangani Hills Forest their ancestral home.
Also known locally as the Sengwer, they were traditionally reliant on the forest for hunting and gathering, herbal medicines, honey, and sorghum and millet farming. Then the colonial government evicted them from the forest, only permitting them access to medicinal plants; gathering and hunting in the forest is still prohibited.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Committed to Adoption, Family Finally Has Their Day in Court

Foster care adoption takes dedication and commitment from the families and the children they hope to adopt. It can be a long process depending on circumstances, but the Bruns family never let that dissuade them.

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Health & Healthcare

Merck for Mothers May 2018 Newsletter | Leadership News, Evidence for Impact and More

Read the Merck for Mothers May 2018 newsletter to catch up on everything being done to help end maternal mortality.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Mars Chairman Explains Why the $35 Billion Chocolate Giant Will Never Go Public

With more than $35 billion in annual sales, Mars Inc — the company behind brands like Twix, M&Ms, and Skittles — is one of the largest family-owned companies in the world. And it has been around for more than 100 years.

But as the company makes changes and invests in its future, there is one thing that will continue to stay the same for the chocolate giant, Mars chairman Stephen Badger told Business Insider in a recent interview.

Staying private allows the company flexibility that many public companies could only dream of.

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Environment

When Temperatures Rise—The Challenges of Hot Landfills

James Walker, PE, is a senior client manager with Cornerstone, A Tetra Tech Company. He earned his degree in Civil Engineering and has 30 years of experience with Subtitle D landfill design and construction projects across the United States.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Creating Good Homes at Kingfisher

Kingfisher, the home improvement company, believes that a good home is a sustainable home.

As part of its journey to become a net positive business by 2050, Kingfisher recently launched its sustainable growth plan which sets out its sustainability targets for the next seven years. These targets aim to drive lasting change by translating sustainability into a language that connects with customers and the real concerns they have in their homes.

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Diversity & Inclusion

21CF Joins With The Trevor Project to Inspire Audiences to Share Their Own ‘Love, Simon’ Truths

21st Century Fox is launching a new campaign in partnership with The Trevor Project at the latter’s annual signature TrevorLIVE event, which raises funds to expand crisis services program and save the lives of LGBTQ youth across the United States.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Abbott Partners with Nonprofits to Provide Disaster Relief - Before the Storm

It’s not enough to be reactive when hurricanes strike— for hurricane season, the best defense is a good offense. Advance preparation ensures that aid can be delivered more quickly, ultimately saving more lives.

Research, Reports & Publications

A Letter From Sappi North America President and CEO Mark Gardner

Sappi North America saw many successes in 2017 despite challenging market headwinds. To our employees, customers and other partners whose dedication contributed to those successes, I thank you.

Our focused strategy and continued investment in our assets and operations set the foundation for our business success, but the nimbleness of our team in responding to changing markets with new products, new services and new ways of doing business really made the difference. That same agility and focus will define our performance in 2018 and beyond, ensuring that we meet our business plan and set new standards of excellence.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Pro Bono Today: What’s New, What’s Working

We selected 12 companies with reputations for having solid pro bono programs. We interviewed both the company and one of its nonprofit partners. After the interviews, we had to admit that we hadn’t uncovered anything particularly innovative. But we did find a lot to be excited about. The result is the newly published report, “Pro Bono Today: What’s New, What’s Working.”

Health & Healthcare

Shire Commitments to Support Patients as Part of Responsibility Strategy

At Shire, supporting patients is at the heart of being a champion for patients. Beyond discovering and developing medicines, we are committed to dramatically shortening the time to diagnosis for rare diseases, and we aim to support patients along the entire patient journey, from conducting clinical trials to enabling patients to better manage their care through the use of innovative digital technologies, and beyond.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Go West Young Man

Not hurricanes. Not flooding. Tornadoes are bad news if you run into one, but those fatalities are low too. Lightning strikes don’t hit many people, and blizzards aren’t so bad either. So what else is there?

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

American Express Awards $1 Million to Threatened Cultural Heritage Sites Included on 2018 World Monuments Watch

American Express and World Monuments Fund (WMF) today announced $1 million in funding to support preservation efforts at eight endangered cultural heritage sites included on the 2018 World Monuments Watch.

Environment

Follow BIER on LinkedIn!

We are excited to announce the launch of our new Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) LinkedIn page. In tandem with our Twitter, @BIERoundable, we will be sharing information on beverage industry sustainability, benchmarking, tools, and insights from our members.

Research, Reports & Publications

GM’s Vision Drives Value for the Company, Communities and Future Mobility

Sustainability is integral to General Motors’ business strategy and core to the company’s global operations, as demonstrated in its latest Sustainability Report (gmsustainability.com) released today.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Tupperware Brands Named One of America's Best Midsize Employers by Forbes

Tupperware Brands Corporation, the leading global marketer of premium, innovative products across multiple brands and categories, announced that it has been listed as 80th in Forbes 2018 list of 500 Best Midsize Employers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Holly Emerson and Owen Smith Honored as Environmental Leaders

Environmental Leader magazine recently recognized two of the people behind Ingersoll Rand’s environmental efforts – Holly Emerson, senior sustainability analyst, and Owen Smith, director of utility and grid solutions – as top Environmental Leaders in the U.S. The magazine created the distinction to recognize 75 people in the environmental space responsible for driving their companies and the industry forward.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Viacom Brands Win Five 2018 Cynopsis Social Good Awards

Viacom won five 2018 Cynopsis Social Good Awards for its civic-minded media focused on LGBT advocacy, disaster relief, and anti-bullying action, among other issues.

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Education

Georgia Teachers Receive Training Through Visionary Computational Thinking Program to Prepare Students for 21st Century Careers

Tata Consultancy Services and Discovery Education Are Offering “Ignite My Future in School” to Cultivate Career Readiness in Students and Provide World-Class Professional Development to Educators in Southern Georgia

The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada

Education

Curiosity Cube Makes EPiC Appearance

"They are learning the basic foundation of what a cell is at the virtual reality station where they actually get to dive into a cell ... We are also looking at 3-D printing, because we are actually talking a little bit more about how we are doing bio-printing, so actually 3-D printing with cells in order to help people who potentially need a new organ," Dowd said.

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