Sustainable Development Goals

Caterpillar Announces Wastewater Treatment Service Pilot

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) today announced the pilot of an advanced water treatment service, targeted at delivering sustainable mobile wastewater treatment to mining, oil and gas and industrial customers around the world.

Sustainable Development Goals

Cargill Signs CEO Letter to President Trump: Stay in Paris Climate Agreement

With their open letter, the CEOs weigh in as the administration considers backing out of the climate pact, which aims to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. “Based on our vast experience doing business all over the world, we believe there is strong potential for negative trade implications if the United States exits from the Paris Agreement,” they said, making a strong stand for trade, economic growth and innovation.

Environment

County, Park Set Up Zero Food Waste Plan

Last year 3.2 million people visited Grand Teton National Park. They left behind over 1,800 tons of trash. “Most of the people who come and visit the park aren’t necessarily thinking about what happens to their waste after they throw it in the trash bin,” park spokesman Andrew White said.

Environment

Recycling Design Challenge in Fabrication Lab Yields Innovative Results for Subaru and Grand Teton National Park’s Zero Landfill Project

tudent designers are helping to inspire recycling in Grand Teton National Park, thanks to a visionary program titled, Building STEAM, led by Jackson Hole Public Art in partnership with Grand Teton National Park and Teton County School District, and funded by Subaru of America, Inc. as part of its Zero Landfill Initiative where the automaker is sharing its knowledge of zero landfill practices with the national parks and working towards a goal of significantly reducing waste going into landfills.

Environment

Champions For Sacred Lands

Was all the work to try to keep the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines from being built done in vain now that Donald Trump occupies the White House? Not if you ask this week’s guest on Sea Change Radio, Kandi Mossett, a leading organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. Mossett takes us behind the scenes of Native Americans’ fight to preserve their sacred lands.

Health & Healthcare

Nalco Water Hosts Conference on Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Waterborne Pathogens

With increasing public health concerns associated with Legionnaires’ disease and waterborne healthcare associated infections (WHAIs), it’s not surprising that more than 200 healthcare professionals and building owners and operators attended Nalco Water’s April 20 conference in Baltimore on strategies to reduce the risk of waterborne pathogens.

Environment

Smart Stakeholder Engagement: 6 Tips for EHS & Sustainability Managers

As EHS and sustainability become more intertwined with a company’s overall business strategy, success takes more than resources and good management - it also requires smart stakeholder engagement.

Environment

Ingersoll Rand Makes Substantial Donation to Arbor Day Foundation and GlobalGiving

Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, donated $15,000 to the Arbor Day Foundation and $15,000 to GlobalGiving in honor of Earth Day.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CSRHub Releases Second e-Book in How to Improve Your CSR Score Series

As the world’s largest sustainability business intelligence database, CSRHub is in a unique position to understand corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings. We have studied each of our 525 data sources’ metrics, and our system automatically identifies which sustainability reporting investments add the most value, pinpoints areas of lagging or leading performance, and produces benchmarks against other companies. In How to Improve Your CSR Score, CSRHub will try to share some of the “secret sauce” its co-founders, Cynthia Figge and Bahar Gidwani, have developed through their combined 30+ years of experience with sustainability metrics.

Research, Reports & Publications

2016 Co-op Way Report

The Co-op is one of the world’s largest consumer co-operatives, with over 4 million active members. Its purpose is ‘Championing a better way of doing business for you and your communities’.

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