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HARMAN Awarded JLR’s Global Supplier Excellence Award for Integrity

The annual Global Supplier Excellence Awards, held last month at JLR's Classic Works Coventry, celebrated the collective contribution and impact of JLR’s supply base toward achieving a robust and sustainable global supply chain.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Buzz Around the ScottsMiracle-Gro Beehives

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whirlpool Corporation Employees Help Improve Homes and Lives in Colombia

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Events, Media & Communications

All You Need to Know About Impact and Legacy at Paris 2024: For the People, for the Community and for the Environment

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Diversity & Inclusion

Maximus’ 2023 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Goals

Our 2023 DE&I goals have focused on building and sustaining belonging. Two critical components of this goal have been launching three additional employee resource groups (ERGs).

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Environment

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Joins MIT SHINE Research Initiative

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has become a member of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for Net Positive Enterprise (SHINE) established by the Materials Systems Laboratory (MSL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Diversity & Inclusion

Local Business L&M Hair Company Wins KeyBank’s Key4Women, 2023 Women-Owned Business Pitch Contest in Partnership With Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), and the Portland Thorns FC

KeyBank’s Key4Women program, Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), and the Portland Thorns FC announced that local business, L&M Hair Company, is the winner of a business pitch contest for women-owned businesses (WOBs) located in Oregon and SW Washington.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Franklin Templeton Employees Engage in Read for the Record Initiative

This year, 40 Franklin Templeton employees across seven offices read to over 1,200 students as part of Jumpstart’s 17th anniversary of Read for the Record.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

DP World and McLaren Racing Pioneer Sustainable Logistics in Moving F1 Race Equipment

Sustainability met speed last week through DP World's latest collaboration with McLaren Racing.

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Innovation & Technology

Bad Actors Using AI To Target Businesses via BEC

Business Email Compromise – known simply as BEC – often looks like an innocuous email. Yet it’s one of the most financially damaging online crimes.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Subaru of America Adopts All Classrooms on Camden High School Campus

Last year, Subaru adopted the city's middle schools and the year before adopted elementary schools as part of its Subaru Loves Learning initiative. The company partners with AdoptAClassroom.org with its initiative.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Video: SEE® Creates Sustainability Beyond Our Oceans With Talley's

Global packaging provider SEE (formerly Sealed Air) worked with Talley's, a New Zealand-based agribusiness company, to provide a seafood packaging solution that aligns with Talley's eco-conscious values and meets industry and retailer requirements for recyclable packaging.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Duke Energy Honors Ohio and Northern Kentucky Veterans With Foundation Grants, Volunteerism

Duke Energy proudly honors our nation’s veterans with Foundation grants in 2023 totaling $35,000.

Green Infrastructure

Trane Technologies Delivers on Low-Carbon Steel Commitment With 1M+ Sustainable HVAC Systems

Trane Technologies today announced a significant milestone for its industry-leading, sustainable climate solutions – with more than one million HVAC units with low-carbon steel shipped to homeowners and commercial customers across the U.S.

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Environment

Landmark Oceans Futures Platform Projects the Arctic, Gulf of Guinea, and Central Pacific To Be Among Future Climate-Driven Fisheries Conflict Hotspots

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced the launch of its Oceans Futures platform, a first-of-its-kind initiative that projects seascapes surrounding the Arctic Ocean and within the Gulf of Guinea, Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Tropical Pacific, and Central Pacific will experience

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Environment

Newly Released Resources for Private Equity Investors Will Help Evaluate Portfolio Progress Toward Net Zero

Ceres welcomes two important new resources for private equity investors to help them evaluate and communicate the progress their portfolio companies are making towards net zero.

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Events, Media & Communications

At COP28, Influential Investors, Companies, and Policymakers To Call for Greater Global Ambition and Accelerated Action To Limit Temperature Rise and Achieve a Net Zero Economy

With less than seven years to halve emissions by 2030, the 2023 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP28) presents a critical moment for governments and businesses to accelerate ambition and action to stabilize the climate

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Great Place to Work® Names Bacardi Fortune World’s Best Workplaces™ in 2023, Ranking 18th

Congratulations are in order as Bacardi, the world’s largest privately held international spirits company, celebrates its debut on the World’s Best Workplaces™ in 2023 list presented by Great Place To Work® and Fortune magazine, coming in at #18.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Opportunity for Stakeholders in North America To Provide Feedback on Revised GRI Climate Change and Energy Standard Drafts

GRI North America is pleased to share that the revised Climate Change and Energy Standard drafts were approved by the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) earlier this week.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Albertsons Companies Celebrates Diwali

In honor of Diwali, Albertsons Companies associates in Pleasanton, CA and Plano, TX came together as one team to have fun, build belonging, and celebrate the annual Festival of Lights.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Great Place to Work® and Fortune Names Dow One of the World’s Best Workplaces™ in 2023

Great Place To Work® (GPTW) and Fortune have honored Dow (NYSE: DOW) as one of the World's Best Workplaces™ in 2023.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Comcast NBCUniversal Tops ‘Best for Vets’ List, Celebrates Milestone in Military Hiring

Ahead of this weekend’s Veterans Day celebrations, Comcast NBCUniversal is proud to announce our recognition as the nation’s leading telecommunications company and second overall employer in the Military Times’ “Best for Vets” rankings.

Education

Regions on the Go: Getting a Kick out of Financial Literacy

Regions Bank, the Birmingham Legion FC soccer team, and the Birmingham Education Foundation teamed up for a youth financial education and soccer clinic.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

AMD Ranked #1 in Newsweek’s America’s Greenest Companies 2024

AMD is ranked #1 in Newsweek’s America’s Greenest Companies 2024, recognizing the company’s impact and commitment to environmental sustainability.

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Energy

Teens for Food Justice and Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Join Forces To Announce Groundbreaking Hydroponic Farm at Manhattan’s Murry Bergtraum Educational Campus

Teens for Food Justice (TFFJ) and Green Mountain Energy Sun Club® (Sun Club) are excited to preview a new, cutting-edge hydroponic farm at the Murry Bergtraum Educational Campus in Manhattan made possible from a $148,000 sustainability grant from Sun Club.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Republic of Tea Celebrates a Decade of Organic Holiday Chai Tea for a Cause

In partnership with Whole Planet Foundation, a Whole Foods Market nonprofit organization, The Republic of Tea will contribute to the organization’s mission to empower hardworking entrepreneurs to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Powering Hope: Compassion in Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

Pepco and IBEW Local 1900, our local union representing line workers and other field personnel, have sponsored the organization’s annual Out of the Darkness Community Walk in Washington, D.C. since 2022, raising more than $16,000 to support their work.

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Environment

Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Worldly Host Higg FEM 4.0 Informative Webinars for Global Stakeholders

Celebrating the launch of the Higg Facility Environment Module (FEM) 4.0 tool, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Worldly hosted a series of webinars for global stakeholders.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Southwire Announces Partnership With READY Robotics

Southwire is pleased to announce a partnership with READY Robotics, a pioneer in cutting-edge automation solutions that overcome the obstacles faced by manufacturers, to deploy automation at five of the company’s facilities.

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