Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Utilities Should Incorporate Asset Management into PPP Models

Water and wastewater utilities considering the use of public-private partnerships (PPP) often express concerns that such arrangements could lead to rate increases and diminished service. However, it is possible to provide ratepayer safeguards and allow reasonable returns on private investments under PPP models through the implementation of an asset management framework.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Video | Sustainability at HP

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Ideas That Matter 2016 | SOLA Case Statement and Website

Design studio, The Blank Page, is helping SOLA, School of Leadership, Afghanistan to change lives through our Ideas that Matter grant.

Innovation & Technology

How MGM Resorts Started Its Own Healthcare Plan

With a workforce of 50,000 in Las Vegas, MGM Resorts saw a unique opportunity to improve the quality of healthcare for employees and their families as well as the entire population of Southern Nevada.

Environment

Ask the Plants for Help Adapting to Climate Change

Last week on CBS News I watched a piece about Dutch farmer Marc van Rijsselberghe, who is running experiments in the Texel Islands, Netherlands, to grow potatoes using in salt-ridden land. As more and more salty water seeps through the Dutch dykes onto its farmland, van Rijsselberghe and others are finding ways to adapt.

Innovation & Technology

Xylem Launches Wastewater Pumping System with Integrated Intelligence

Research, Reports & Publications

NS Adopts Technology to Promote Safe Driving, Save Fuel

As owner of some 6,000 trucks, SUVs, and cars used in field operations across a sprawling 22-state system, Norfolk Southern ranks as a Top 100 commercial fleet. In 2015, the company piloted a test using telematics technology to enhance driver safety. NS saw improvements across a range of driving performance metrics, including benefits beyond safety – such as better fuel economy.

Environment

Cutting-Edge Technology Could Help Our Earth: My Time at CTIA Super Mobility 2016

My descent into Las Vegas last month was an important reminder of the imminent – but not inevitable – water crisis facing the United States.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Patriot Subaru of Saco Wins Cox Automotive Leader in Sustainability Award

Cox Automotive presented its Leader in Sustainability Award to Patriot Subaru of Saco, Maine at the 2016 Automotive News Best Dealerships to Work For celebration this week.

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KeyBank: Responsible Banking

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Aflac Insights

Learn more about Aflac’s survey findings to better understand workplace trends as well as consumer attitudes, habits and opinions toward health and...

Whirlpool Corporation & Sustainability

At Whirlpool Corporation, we have a history of advances in sustainability founded on a simple principle: "Do the right things, the right ways. Always...

IWBI | WELL Building Standard

Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...

Greener Products and Solutions

We actively integrate sustainability into the product development process and look at all phases of the product life cycle for opportunities to...

Accelerating access to healthcare technology

We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

Sustainable Operations

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