Environment

WEC and Partners Find Local Solutions That Have the Potential to Foment Sustainable Economic Growth

People and economies thrive when micro, small and medium-sized enterprises are empowered to reach their full potential. These enterprises create 75% of all jobs in Latin America, but many need better connections to markets, information, and supportive policies. They need support and incentives to access new markets, adopt sustainable practices, and strengthen workers’ rights.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Smithfield Foods Donates $75,000 to Fund Life-Saving Technology

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

How Changing the World’s Food Systems Can Help to Protect the Planet

Going into debt with nature is a dangerous thing. When our stocks of water, land and clean air are spent – we don’t have a second planet to borrow from. But that’s exactly the way that Earth is heading. 1 August 2018 marks an annual event, “Earth Overshoot Day”: the day on which the natural resources the planet can regenerate within one year are exhausted. This is the earliest date on which Earth Overshoot Day has ever been reached.

Education

Middle School Educators Across Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Learn New Strategies for Integrating Innovative Computational Thinking Approaches into Classroom Learning to Better Prepare Students For 21st Century Careers

Tata Consultancy Services, a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, and Discovery Education, the Charlotte-based leading provider of digital education content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, this week announced the Charlotte, N.C. launch of their Ignite My Future in School (IMFIS) initiative.

Health & Healthcare

VIDEO | Paralympic Skier, Best-Selling Author, and Childhood Cancer Survivor Josh Sundquist Helps Spread the Word About My Special Aflac Duck™

Paralympic skier, best-selling author, and childhood cancer survivor Josh Sundquist understands the physical and emotional toll of facing childhood cancer.

Environment

Investors and Businesses Decry Proposed Rollback of Tailpipe Emissions and MPG Standards

In response to the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of vehicle fuel economy and emissions standards, influential investors and business leaders are raising concerns that the change will undermine the global competitiveness of the U.S. auto industry.

Research, Reports & Publications

HP’s Sustainability Criteria Helped Generate $700M in New Revenue

HP Inc. says that sustainable impact was a key differentiator for more than $700 million in new business last year. The company’s newly published 2017 Sustainable Impact Report shows a 38% year-over-year increase in sales bids with sustainability requirements.

Education

VIDEO | Discover Data Program Aims to Ignite Interest in Data Among Middle School Students

The Nielsen Foundation recently launched Discover Data, a signature education initiative in collaboration with Discovery Education and The Afterschool Alliance. The program provides resources to students ages 11 to 14 that create excitement about the power of data analysis. The initiative includes student activities and career profiles.

Innovation & Technology

Meet the 2018 Cisco GPS Challenge First Runner-Up: Jara

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Sappi to Fund Research on Artificial Intelligence and Bringing Carbon Emissions to Net Zero in the Paper and Pulp Industry as One of the Founding Partners of the Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellowship Programme

Sappi Limited, a leading global producer of dissolving wood pulp, speciality and packaging papers, graphic (printing and writing) paper and biomaterials, is pleased to announce its support as one of the founding partners of The Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellowship Programme.

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