AI & Technology

Stoppenhagen Takes Seat on Board That Helps Plan 'Meeting of the Minds’

As an authority on urban sustainability, technology and innovation, Black & Veatch’s Steph Stoppenhagen valued the yearly “Meeting of the Minds” as a preeminent platform for ideas about how cities can do things smarter and better for their citizenry. Now, she’s getting the chance to make a broader imprint on that thought leadership and knowledge-sharing.

Awards & Rankings

Dow Jones Sustainability Index Names Ingersoll Rand to World and North America Indices

For the eighth consecutive year, Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR), a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indices (DJSI). Continued placement on this index series showcases the company’s advances in integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices into the core of how the company is operated.

Environment

Global Climate Action Series: Cisco Announces Ambitious Product Power Efficiency Goal

Cisco categorizes our GHG and energy initiatives into four areas: operations, extended operations (supply chain), products, and the solutions we sell to our customers. More than a decade ago, Cisco used the IPCC 4th Assessment to set our initial operations GHG reduction goal, and we continue to follow that roadmap.

Environment

Global Climate Action Series: Stepping Up on Workplace Sustainability

In light of the Global Climate Action Summit taking place this week in San Francisco, where leaders and individuals are coming together to take ambition to the next level on climate change, I wanted to spend some time reiterating Cisco’s commitment to solving climate change and embedding sustainability into our global real estate operations.

AI & Technology

Ethics and Responsibility in Tech-Driven Business With HP, Microsoft, Forgerock, Thomson Reuters, Google, Natura and Under Armour

Ethics and responsibility in tech-driven business impacts everything from ensuring the proper use of data and being a privacy conscious company to social inclusion, freedom of speech and climate action. At the 2nd Annual Responsible Business Summit West 300+ business executives will meet to share ideas on how to address the three core pillars impacting digitally-driven business; Climate Action, Social Impact and Data, Privacy and Trust.

Energy & Infrastructure

Wilshire Grand Tower: Sustainable Design for the Tallest Building in the Western United States

Tetra Tech helped create a sustainable design for the 73-story, LEED Gold-certified Wilshire Grand, the tallest building in the western United States.

Downtown Los Angeles’ 73-story Wilshire Grand sits in the footprint of its famous predecessor, the Wilshire Grand Hotel, which hosted some of the 20th Century’s most famous international dignitaries.

Environment

Sammy Roth on Desert Water Tussles

As more and more of the western United States suffers from warmer temperatures and in some places desertification, water has become perhaps the most hotly debated topic in environmental newsrooms throughout the region. It’s no surprise then that an environmental reporter from the Palm Springs-based Desert Sun would be covering a whole host of water-related stories. This week on Sea Change Radio, we take a deep dive into a pool of topics with Sammy Roth that hopefully won’t dampen your spirits.

Environment

5 Things You Shouldn't Recycle

Events

A Global SDG Competition to Inspire the Next Generation of Sustainability Leadership

Sustainability has come a long way in the last 10 years. It's now common language in boardrooms across the world. Most companies have someone who has a title that includes the world Sustainability, CSR, Value Creation or Shared Value. This is a great achievement and we should all be thrilled with this cultural shift. But we're not there yet and lately inspiration has been lacking.

Media & Communications

National Geographic Documentary Films Announces Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Paris to Pittsburgh

National Geographic Documentary Films announced today that the company will distribute Bloomberg Philanthropies’ second film, Paris to Pittsburgh premiering on Wednesday, December 12 at 9pm ET/PT in the U.S. and will air globally in 172 countries and 45 languages.

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