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A harbor porpoise riding the wake of a boat in Burrows Pass, Salish Sea.

Environment | Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Pacific Mammal Research Uses Grants To Study Marine Mammals of the Salish Sea

A young girl with a dream to work with dolphins grew up and is now leading research to support conservation efforts of harbor porpoises and harbor seals in the Salish Sea of the Pacific Northwest.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Comcast Is the Latest Media Giant to Try its Own Startup Accelerator

Comcast is creating a multi-city startup accelerator as the telecom giant looks to nurture the next big thing in the media and entertainment sectors.

Health & Healthcare

Explorers Post a New Safety Milestone

The De Beers Canada Exploration team has established a remarkable record of safety excellence, going six years without a lost time injury.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep the Rez Beautiful, Americorps Team Up for Nature Area Planting

More than 40 dedicated AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) volunteers from the Vicksburg, Mississippi, Southern Region Campus assisted Keep The Reservoir Beautiful (KRB) volunteers Bob Stribling and Jerry Palmer in a Great American Cleanup beautification project around the Brandon Reservoir area.

Environment

Las Vegas Sands Properties around the World Prepare for Week of Events to Support Global Climate Action

Las Vegas Sands’ properties throughout Asia and the US are once again planning a number of events during a one-week period to drive awareness of climate change and to encourage others to do their part to minimize their impact on the environment. The week-long events will commence the week of March 20th, leading up to Earth Hour on March 25th when all properties will go dark by shutting off exterior non-essential lighting.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Meet Maritza Iacono, Business Strategist

We’re celebrating Women’s History Month this March by introducing you to 10 women who help power your life at Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas. They advance our company with their vision, talent, hard work and creativity. These trailblazing women – including a nuclear engineer, astrophysicist and lineman – reveal inspiring stories of persistence, pluck and achievement in largely male-dominated fields. A diverse workplace isn’t just a nice idea, it’s a competitive necessity. Today, meet Maritza Iacono, a utility strategy director based in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Aramark Opens Baseball Season with Roster of Mouthwatering Better-For-You Items

Hungry baseball fans looking for better-for-you choices at the ball park will discover a new roster of great-tasting options added to the menu courtesy of Aramark, the award-winning food and beverage, retail and facilities services partner at ten MLB stadiums.

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Environment

Los Angeles Kings Launch Team Sustainability Program: LA Kings Green

AEG’s Los Angeles Kings today announced LA Kings Green, an umbrella program to encompass the team’s sustainable initiatives.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Rankings Highlight General Mills' Continued Progress and Commitment to Human Rights

This week, the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) was launched. General Mills was part of this pilot benchmark which evaluated the top 98 companies across agriculture, apparel and extractives (those industries considered at highest risk). A collaborative initiative led by investors and human rights organizations, CHRB is the first public benchmark that ranks companies on their policies, practices and actions on human rights.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Compliance in 2017 - What Are Your Peers Saying?

87% of vendor data contains errors. This staggering statistic is one of the biggest reasons companies run into common compliance deficiencies like bad customer relationships and even monetary penalties.

Diversity & Inclusion

Promoting Equality for all at Barclays

Wendy Papworth is Director for Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) and also leads Barclays’ group-wide focus on the gender agenda.

She started her career in client-facing roles, including as an insurance systems consultant with IBM, but as her personal circumstances changed she spotted an opportunity to better balance her commitments.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Timberland’s New Line is Made from Trash Collected from the Streets of Haiti

“A new backpack started life as 7.5 plastic bottles trashed on streets in Haiti. The backpack—part of a new line of boots, bags, and t-shirts made by Timberland—looks like it's made from canvas. But the material is 50% recycled plastic, sourced from a place that both has excess trash and a desperate need for jobs.”

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru 2016 Share the Love® Event Generates More Than $24 Million in Charitable Donations

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced it has donated more than $23.4 million to national and local charities during its annual Share the Love event in 2016, bringing the total donated throughout the life of the program to more than $94 million.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Cox Enterprises' #TeamCox Completes Construction on their 24th and 25th homes in Partnership with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity

On Saturday, March 11, in partnership with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, Cox Enterprises’ #TeamCox completed construction on their 24th and 25th homes.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Meet Ashley Coleman, Civil Engineer

We’re celebrating Women’s History Month this March by introducing you to 10 women who help power your life at Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas. They advance our company with their vision, talent, hard work and creativity. These trailblazing women – including a nuclear engineer, astrophysicist and lineman – reveal inspiring stories of persistence, pluck and achievement in largely male-dominated fields. A diverse workplace isn’t just a nice idea, it’s a competitive necessity. Today, meet Ashley Coleman, a civil engineer based in Charlotte, NC.

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Education

The Youth Employment Crisis

Young people play a vital role in fostering global economic development. In the face of weak prospects for global economic growth, their involvement in the formal economy becomes increasingly relevant and urgent. In recent years, there has been much talk about the demographic dividend in most emerging economies and less-developed countries, a scenario where a larger proportion of the overall population is of working age. In Mexico, young people between 15 and 29 represent the largest age group. By 2022, the country will have the largest number of youth in its history and its size will shrink in the years that follow, as the country transitions toward an aging population.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

UN Global Compact Bulletin (March 2017)

We Call on Business Leaders to Consciously Champion Gender Equality #WEPs Forum 14-15 March.

Diversity & Inclusion

#WomensHistoryMonth at Cox Enterprises: Get to Know Juliette Pryor

In celebration of Women's History Month, female leaders from across Cox Enterprises are sharing insights from their experience throughout the month of March. Juliette Pryor is Cox Enterprises’ senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary.

Innovation & Technology

Emerging Trends in Food Safety

The Global Food Safety Conference is an important annual event for Tetra Pak, bringing together leaders in the industry, academia and regulation to discuss topics on securing safer food production worldwide.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Freeport-McMoRan Operations Receive Two Wildlife Habitat Council Awards

The Wildlife Habitat Council partners with organizations dedicated to restoring and enhancing wildlife habitat on corporate lands. Freeport-McMoRan has been a member for many years and now has 20 sites with WHC-certified habitat enhancement, conservation education and wildlife management programs.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Arrow Electronics Engages Denver-Area College Students in Case Competition

Arrow Electronics recently hosted students from Colorado State University, Metropolitan State University, the University of Colorado and the University of Denver at the company’s Denver-area global headquarters for a case competition focused on Arrow’s groundbreaking collaboration with Indiegogo, which helps entrepreneurs get their innovative technology products to market quickly and cost-effectively.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Matters, and it is Achievable

HP is counted among the top tech companies with women and underrepresented minorities in executive positions, where 27 percent of HP executives, director, and above are women.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Planet Foundation®’s 2017 Pre-GRAMMY Showcase & Benefit Was Golden

GRAMMY-nominees La Santa Cecilia, Trailblazer Alaffia, Honoree Living on One and Presenting Sponsor truRoots® rocked the evening with 960+ guests to alleviate global poverty.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Panalpina Publishes Integrated Management Report

The Panalpina Integrated Management Report 2016 gives an overview of the company’s strategy and business model, the performance of its regions and products, and its approach to sustainability management.

Education

Supporting the Rodeo Run for Education

Weatherford is a proud partner of the 30th annual Rodeo Run presented by ConocoPhillips, a Houston tradition which has awarded over $4.8 million in college scholarships to Texas high school students through the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund since its inception.

As a Gold Spur sponsor, we were glad to see our employees join thousands of runners and volunteers to raise money for college scholarships.

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Innovation & Technology

Eighth-Grader Donates 27,000+ Books to Disadvantaged Children and Families

Books for Bedtime encourages organizations and schools to hold their own book drives to benefit the nonprofit. It also joined VolunteerMatch, which links people willing to donate their time with a cause.

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