As sustainability becomes a decisive factor in enterprise purchasing, Lenovo is responding by delivering configuration-level Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) for ThinkPad through its partnership with Makersite.
The Erb Institute engaged with several speakers and participants around key questions that relate to business, academia and sustainability, during a partner event with Innovation Forum in Detroit. We asked business sustainability professionals: What new opportunities are on the horizon for business to better “innovate for sustainability”?
Smithfield Foods, Inc. is pleased to announce that ProFood World selected the company’s Kinston, North Carolina and Sioux City, Iowa facilities as winners of the 2018 Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Awards (SEMA). The annual awards program honors companies for exceptional sustainability achievements in food, beverage, and consumer products manufacturing.
Based on pilot projects in the Americas, the programme can potentially reduce carbon emissions for food and beverage manufacturing and cut energy cost by between 15% and 25%.
Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly and VolunteerMatch CEO Greg Baldwin reflect on the advantages and challenges of living in an age of unprecedented volunteering opportunities. Greg reveals how VolunteerMatch is taking strategic risks in order to stay competitive in the digital age and elevate the value of service experiences, both for volunteers and the organizations they support.
Brianna has big dreams about a career as an artist, but she didn’t always think that way.
Two years ago, the now 18-year-old high school senior from Queens, N.Y., arrived at a new school in Westchester on the bank of the Hudson River, equipped with state-of-the-art educational technology in the classroom, something that was lacking at her previous school. Studying at the Martin Luther King Jr. High School, which is part of the Greenburgh-Graham school district for students who are at-risk or have special needs in Hastings-on-Hudson, has changed the way she thinks about the future — her future.
The DigiTruck is a mobile, solar-powered classroom and enterprise incubator. The new unit serves the Kenyan capital of Nairobi - one of Africa’s commercial hubs and a portal for Africa’s development in the 21st Century.
Based in Bulgaria, ProsFit uses HP Jet Fusion 3D printing technology to transform the prosthetic fitting and manufacturing process, designing customized sockets for a more comfortable and faster fit. These prosthetics that fit more precisely, are custom-designed for the wearer and are more affordable, without requiring the physical presence of a prosthetist.
CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) is committed to investing in and developing a full range of alternative fuel vehicles. The GX437 fully electric city bus from Heuliez Bus is a direct result of this extensive research and development program.
The GX437 was chosen by QBUZZ for its low emissions thanks to its unique Lithium-ion NMC battery system.
Advances in science and technology are creating opportunities for companies to rethink how they deliver value to their customers in support of new societal aspirations aligned with their views of the Good Life of today. SB'19 Detroit will showcase evidence of how these driving forces support brands in their transition to a more sustainable future, allowing them to compete in the marketplace.
The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
