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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Luxury Brands Putting More Weight into Sustainability

Feb 23, 2016 8:00 AM ET

Luxury product consumers have increasingly become vocal about social and environmental causes, and more importantly, are willing to make a difference through their buying choices.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Wicklund Key to Boys & Girls Club Funding

Feb 23, 2016 8:00 AM ET

Few people at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Green Bay have worked longer for the organization than Johanna Wicklund.

Environment

MillerCoors Cuts Brewery Waste Down to Zero

Feb 22, 2016 4:00 PM ET

There are a number of strands in the sustainability story: different approaches, if you will, towards achieving a more sustainable economy.

Innovation & Technology

National #EntrepreneurWeek: Techstars Atlanta Empowering Entrepreneurs to Build Great Businesses

Feb 22, 2016 2:30 PM ET

It's National Entrepreneur Week! Cox Enterprises recently partnered with Techstars to broaden Atlanta’s vibrant startup community and empower entrepreneurs to build great businesses. Techstars Atlanta - an accelerator program for technology startups - will select, recruit and accelerate the most innovative startups focused on technologies driving positive change in an interconnected world.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Toyota Again the 'Most Admired' Motor Vehicle Company in FORTUNE’s Study

Feb 22, 2016 1:45 PM ET

Toyota was once again named the top motor vehicle company in Fortune Magazine’s annual list of the “World’s Most Admired Companies.”

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

New National Cancer Moonshot Initiative Should Prioritize Cancer Survivors

Feb 22, 2016 1:10 PM ET

Earlier this month, the LIVESTRONG Foundation met with representatives from the Vice President’s Office and others from the Administration. Our message was clear: put the patient at the center of the Cancer Moonshot effort. Build it with people at its heart.

Events, Media & Communications

Art Therapy Gets the Red Carpet Treatment

Feb 22, 2016 1:00 PM ET

Art Therapy Today provides readers with the most up-to-date information about The American Art Therapy Association's (AATA) activities, current news related to the art therapy profession, and announcements pertaining to events or opportunities provided by the AATA.

Innovation & Technology

VIDEO: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Living Progress Challenge

Feb 22, 2016 12:35 PM ET

Environment

Brightening Our Corner

Feb 22, 2016 12:00 PM ET

The 2016 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge is still accepting teams to compete. Finalist teams for the 2016 Challenge will be announced in October 2016 at the Bioneers Conference, where we will present the inaugural $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize to one of eight finalist teams from the 2015 Challenge.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sunrise Banks Empowers the Underserved to Achieve

Feb 22, 2016 12:00 PM ET

Guided by a mission “to be the most innovative bank empowering the underserved to achieve,” David Reiling has grown inner city St. Paul's Sunrise Banks into a banking group with $900 million in assets, 6 branches operating in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and a national prepaid card business based in Sioux Falls, SD, representing 25 percent of revenues.

Health & Healthcare

Creating a Health and Well-Being Culture: What Hospitals and Senior Communities Can Do

Feb 22, 2016 11:40 AM ET

Recently stakeholders from strategic and geographic aligned acute care and senior living organizations came together to work collaboratively to answer the question “How can hospitals and senior living providers work better together?” Attendees of The Role of Acute Care and Senior Living in an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System Roundtable, were eager to collaborate, knowing the results could be significant. As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, acute care hospitals and senior living providers are grappling with new realities: our elders are living longer and want to live healthier, while the government is challenging providers to do more with less.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Major League Baseball Players Trust Announces Recipients of 2016 Michael Weiner Scholarship for Labor Studies

Feb 22, 2016 11:35 AM ET

The Major League Baseball Players Trust today announced the five recipients of a 2016 Michael Weiner Scholarship for Labor Studies, established by Major Leaguers to honor the life and work of the Major League Baseball Players Association’s late executive director.

Events, Media & Communications

“Our Common Future” – the Masterpiece of Gro Harlem Brundtland, Also Known to Many As the Influential “Brundtland Report”

Feb 22, 2016 11:35 AM ET

Former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway (and then special envoy for the United Nations) was invited by the UN to create and manage a “World Commission on Environment and Development (“WCED”), which over time became known as the “Brundtland Commission.” The commission gave the world a framework for moving forward on what would become known as “sustainable development.”

Social Impact & Volunteering

Southern Nevada Christmas Tree Recycling Program

Feb 22, 2016 11:15 AM ET

Congratulations to the Southern Nevada Christmas Tree Recycling program for recycling more than 20,000 Christmas trees this year! A new record for Southern Nevada. ‪#‎MulchMadness.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Quest Diagnostics Named One of 2016 "World's Most Admired Companies" by Fortune Magazine

Feb 22, 2016 11:00 AM ET

Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced that it has been named one of the "World's Most Admired Companies" for 2016 by Fortune.

Environment

Unlocking the Promise of Bio-Based Plastics

Feb 22, 2016 10:15 AM ET

The growing global glut of crude and corresponding collapse in oil prices are reshaping short-term market dynamics. In this environment, it is easy to forget that – long term – industries that have traditionally relied on petroleum-based feedstocks must still innovate to sustainably meet the needs of a rapidly expanding global population. A global, connected middle class – expected to roughly double by 2030 – is rapidly changing the breadth and scale of consumer demand, as well as signaling the need to rethink how we meet it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the plastics industry.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Body Shop Celebrates 40 Years of CSR with “Enrich, Not Exploit”

Feb 22, 2016 10:15 AM ET

The Body Shop is no stranger to CSR commitments. In fact, the beauty brand has been in the trenches on social and environmental issues since its founding in 1976.

Environment

What's In Store for 2016: CBRE’s Big Predictions for Sustainability in 2016

Feb 22, 2016 9:45 AM ET

Education

The Power of Zero Book Release

Feb 22, 2016 9:00 AM ET

Innovation & Technology

Innovating for Sustainable Productivity: An Interview with Lisa, Atlas Copco’s Human-Machine Interface Programmer

Feb 22, 2016 8:40 AM ET

At Atlas Copco we have taken on the challenge to transform industries, to create a more sustainable future.

Environment

GOJO Taking big Steps to Reduce its Chemical Footprint

Feb 21, 2016 11:55 AM ET

Responsible Production & Consumption

The European Conflict Minerals Debate Continues, Will You Be Affected?

Feb 19, 2016 8:20 PM ET

Trialogue negotiations have begun. The EU Conflict Minerals regulation is now on the radar of many companies and questions are being asked. What are some best practices companies can follow for supplier engagement? How do companies effectively perform quality Due Diligence? How do companies properly report our compliance efforts? And most importantly, which companies will be affected?

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Source Intelligence’s Jess Kraus Finalist for Most Admired CEO

Feb 19, 2016 6:20 PM ET

Jess Kraus, CEO and Co-Founder of Source Intelligence, was honored as a finalist. Kraus was recognized for his more than 30 years of experience and leadership in environmental and sustainability programs at some of the world’s largest brands.

Events, Media & Communications

Australia Aspires to Global Green Leadership

Feb 19, 2016 4:00 PM ET

Frasers Property Australia’s ‘Brickworks’ retail project to host global design competition, the Living Building Challenge

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Mainstream Financial Firms Embrace Do-Good Investing

Feb 19, 2016 4:00 PM ET

Sustainable investing has traditionally been perceived as a niche asset class catering only to a select group of wealthy individuals and institutions that want to avoid controversial industries.