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KeyBank Provides $64.7 Million of Financing for New Affordable Housing in Salt Lake City

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) provided $16.6 million in low income housing tax credit equity (state and federal), a $21.3 million construction loan and $6.3 million taxable equity bridge for the construction of Silos Apartments.

Sustainable Development Goals

Paris 2024: Setting New Standards in Sustainable and Inclusive Sport Events

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Human Rights Across Hershey’s Value Chain

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Research, Reports & Publications

Logitech Reports Carbon Reduction Progress in FY24 Impact Report

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Energy

Eaton Wins $16M Contract to Help Energize New University of Michigan Hospital

Eaton is the first in its industry to join the health sector climate pledge. Learn more about how Eaton is powering the future of healthcare.

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Environment

Can Businesses Phase Out Virgin Plastic for Good?

SAP’s response to the UN Treaty on Plastics Pollution was to create a digital solution that would enable customers to apply the framework to their business as well as provide feedback to policymakers on what is and isn’t working.

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Diversity & Inclusion

CRB Celebrates Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day inspired us to share our love of designing and building with our kids! Members from our Women@CRB employee resource group based in our Philadelphia and St. Louis offices invited their families in to enjoy an evening of fun science experiments.

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Environment

AEG Hosts Earth Month Panel Featuring Female Trailblazers Leading Sustainability Efforts in Live Entertainment Industry

To celebrate Earth Month, AEG hosted a virtual panel “Sustainability Insights: Embracing Leadership and Inspiring Action in Entertainment” on April 18, 2023, to give employees insight into current sustainability initiatives taking place in the sports and live entertainment.

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Energy

National Grid Breaks Ground on Geothermal Borehole on UMass Lowell Campus

As the world celebrates Earth Week, National Grid today broke ground on its first geothermal pilot in partnership with the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the City of Lowell, and the local community.

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Diversity & Inclusion

RBIJ Publishes Roadmap To Drive Adoption of Second Chance Hiring

RBIJ has revealing a report revealing employer perspectives and reservations, while laying out a roadmap to drive the adoption of Second Chance hiring in the United States.

Innovation & Technology

Qualcomm Is Closing the Digital Divide With 5G FWA Mobile Broadband

In this video, Don McGuire and Kirti Gupta discuss how 5G technology and innovations like 5G FWA (fixed wireless access) could hold the key to bridging the digital divide, giving more of the world’s population access to improved educational and economic opportunities.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

LG Named Most Sustainable Home Appliance Brand

Recognizing the company's unwavering commitment and advancements in sustainable green building practices, LG Electronics has been named the industry’s most sustainable home appliance brand in the just-published 2023 Green Builder Sustainable Brand Index.

Events, Media & Communications

Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council Forms Executive Committee

The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) has announced its newly formed Executive Committee intended to help govern the council into the future.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Essity 2022 Annual and Sustainability Report: Improving Well-Being for People and Societies

In pace with world population growth and rise in average life expectancy, there is increased need and demand for more preventive and easily accessible hygiene and health solutions.

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Green Infrastructure

Black & Veatch to Detail Its Zero-Emission Transportation Expertise at Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo 2023

Black & Veatch, will detail its activities at this year’s Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo taking place 1-4 May at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

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Diversity & Inclusion

GoDaddy’s 2022 Diversity and Pay Parity Annual Report: A Message From Our Chief People Officer

If there’s one thing technology has taught us, it’s that change and innovation happen through a deliberate focus on iteration and improvement. The same can be said about culture and community.

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Environment

Preserving Endangered Species and Restoring Ecosystems: Cat Capon’s Vision for a Sustainable Future

As a Brit, the fact that I live in one of the most nature-depleted places in the world is really upsetting to me.

Innovation & Technology

Edison on the Front Lines of the War on Cyberattacks

SCE’s parent helps lead electric industry, government partnership to safeguard the expanding power grid from cybercriminals.

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Events, Media & Communications

PNC Bank Hosts 13th Annual Women in Business Week To Engage, Inform Women Financial Decision-Makers

PNC Bank is proud to announce its 13th annual Women in Business Week, a collection of in-person meetings, events and virtual webinars May 8-12, featuring women who are leading the way and changing the game in their industries.

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Environment

Breeding Better Sugar With Genomics

Folk wisdom says that putting sugar in someone’s gas tank will ruin their car. Truth is, not only is that a myth, with a few extra steps, sugarcane can be turned into ethanol, a greener alternative to fossil fuels.

Energy

Hormel Foods Ranks in Top 100 for Green Power Use

Hormel Foods Corporation was for the first time included on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of the 100 largest green power users from the Green Power Partnership (GPP).

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Diversity & Inclusion

Eliminating Racism and Empowering Women — Why I Serve With the YWCA Columbus

This week YWCA Columbus will recognize amazing women who have made a lasting difference in our community at the annual Women of Achievement event.

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Research, Reports & Publications

2022 Sustainability Report: What It Means and Why It Matters

For some, being sustainable equals individual actions to benefit the environment—recycling, for example. But when companies talk about sustainability, they’re referring to the choices and plans they make to support people, the planet, and their business now and into the future.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Life Science Business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany Signature Partnerships Advance Access to Science Education

MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announces eight new and expanded Signature Partnerships to encourage impact in the communities where its employees live and work.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

KeyBank Loan Officer Shares Advice That Can Make Homeownership More Affordable

KeyBank’s Saleem Shabazz, Community Development Loan Officer (NMLS #474996) in Buffalo, was recently featured on Power 96.5/WUFO Radio’s website, giving advice on resources many banks provide that can help make buying a home easier.

Environment

On Earth Day, What Is ‘Enough’?

With the arrival of another Earth Day, the need to address our changing climate remains as urgent as ever. Last month’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes the stakes plain

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Innovation & Technology

Land Betterment’s ekō Solutions Welcomes First 5 Residents to ekō Village of Pike in Pikeville Kentucky

ekō Solutions welcomes the 1st 5 residents to its ekō Village of Pike located outside Pikeville, Kentucky. This marks the completion and full lease up of Phase 1 of ekō Village of Pike.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Akvo: The Next Generation of Data Collection for Sustainable Development

Cisco is proud to support Akvo, which provides data services and tech solutions to development partners in the water, agriculture, and climate sectors.

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Environment

As Clean Energy Incentives Power a U.S. Manufacturing Revival, Congress Must Reject Their Repeal

The Ceres BICEP Network today sent a letter to Congress, urging them to reject the repeal of the clean energy incentives and other climate and environmental justice investments within the Inflation Reduction Act as part of ongoing negotiations related to the federal debt limit.

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