GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2022

The software and hardware maker’s carbon removal goals are among the most ambitious in the corporate world. Here are some of its early lessons.

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APRIL 1, 2022

SOURCE: Fifth Third Bancorp. DESCRIPTION: CINCINNATI, April 1, 2022 /3BL Media/ – Fifth Third Bank, National Association (Nasdaq: FITB) was recently recognized by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standard of ethical business practices, as one of the 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies. This announcement marks the third time Fifth Third has been recognized by Ethisphere in the “banks” category.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2022

Sponsored: Although evaluating renewable energy economics can seem daunting as a buyer, the first step to success is understanding the financial priorities and renewable energy solutions in play for your organization.

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

SOURCE: The Home Depot. DESCRIPTION: April is National Volunteer Month, which means it’s Spring Doing season. To celebrate, The Home Depot Foundation is honoring the selfless spirit and orange-blooded culture of Team Depot, our associate volunteer force. Over the next 30 days, Team Depot will be completing dozens of volunteer projects with nonprofit partners and extending the mission of The Home Depot Foundation in our communities across the country.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2022

Demand for green talent is already outstripping supply. The LinkedIn Global Green Skills Report 2022 calls for action on upskilling and reskilling.

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

SOURCE: Entergy Corporation. DESCRIPTION: STEM Goes Red. Entergy was the presenting sponsor of the American Heart Association’s 2022 STEM Goes Red event on March 24 at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. The event encourages young women to explore careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Fifty high school girls assembled for the first in-person event since 2020, engaging in a daylong event of hands-on STEM activities and mentorship.

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

April is National Financial Literacy Month. SOURCE: Principal Financial Group. DESCRIPTION: Des Moines, Iowa, April 1, 2022 /3BL Media/ – To mark National Financial Literacy Month, Principal ® Foundation is encouraging high school students to participate in the 2022 EVERFI Financial Literacy Bee , which provides an opportunity to explore financial decision-making topics and win a college scholarship.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2022

What will it take for the secondhand goods market to grow to $77 billion in 2025?

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

By Donna Epps, Verizon, SVP, Public Policy and Strategic Alliances. SOURCE: Verizon. DESCRIPTION: Verizon announced that for the first time, we are offering free Internet through our Fios Forward program to customers who qualify for the Federal Communications Commission’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). With Fios Forward and ACP, qualifying customers will have access to premium high-speed Internet (with speeds starting at 200 Mbps for downloads and uploads) without data caps, extra fees o

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Cisco CSR

APRIL 1, 2022

As we move to widescale deployment, we believe that UCS X-Series architectural message is resonating extremely well as deployment feedback has been fantastic. In the first post part of the blog series, we discussed how heterogeneous computing is causing paradigm shift in computing shaping UCS X-Series architecture. In this blog we will discuss the electromechanical aspects of the UCS X-Series architecture.

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

April 10–12. SOURCE: American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). DESCRIPTION: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., April 1, 2022 /3BL Media/ - AISES and the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians will host the 2022 AISES Leadership Summit in Temecula, Calif., from April 10 to 12, at the Pechanga Resort Casino. Each spring, about 300 participants gather to spend two full days in a community of experienced and emerging Indigenous leaders.

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Cisco CSR

APRIL 1, 2022

Everything your business does in the cloud costs money. Whether it’s spinning up a new VM or running queries in a data warehouse, you are being billed for it. The main attraction of moving to the cloud may be easy setup with no upfront cost. However, without proper planning, budgeting, and management, your cloud spend can quickly spiral out of control.

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

Acquisition Strengthens Workiva’s XBRL Financial Disclosure Solutions for ESEF and Statutory Reporting. SOURCE: Workiva. DESCRIPTION: AMES, Iowa, April 1, 2022 /3BL Media/ -- Workiva Inc. (NYSE:WK), the company powering transparent reporting for a better world, announced today that it has acquired Denmark-based ParsePort. The acquisition strengthens Workiva’s leadership position in XBRL and Inline XBRL ® financial disclosure in Europe, and complements Workiva’s cloud platform, which European org

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John Englart

APRIL 1, 2022

The Australian Labor Party announced on 3 December 2021 they would be taking to the next election (sometime in the next 6 months) an interim emissions target of 43 percent reduction by 2030 on 2005 levels. This is 2% lower than the target they had for the previous election in 2019.The Coalition Government are taking their current interim emissions target of 26-28 percent reduction in emissions.

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Speaker: Hortense Grouvel

In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

By Amy Maclean. SOURCE: EarthX. DESCRIPTION: Nonprofit environmental organization EarthX had more than 170,000 people at its last in-person gathering in Dallas, pre-COVID-19. The group was founded in 2011 by Trammell S. Crow, who was named after his father, head of what at one point was the largest real estate developer in the nation. When the pandemic hit, EarthX had to take its mix of Earth Day panels and conferences virtual.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

APRIL 1, 2022

The metaverse has the potential to radically transform the digital—and global—economy, but many questions remain.

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

Words by Megan Amrich. SOURCE: TriplePundit. DESCRIPTION: Employee interaction and engagement can be difficult enough when everyone works in the same building. Factor in the shift to remote work and the challenges of the past two years, and it can feel like connecting with colleagues is a thing of the past — leaving many business leaders looking for new ways to bring everyone together.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 1, 2022

A program from Volvo Construction Equipment will tailor emissions reduction plans for heavy machinery users. The post Program Aims to Reduce Carbon Emissions of Heavy Machinery appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

Diverse engineering paths enable world-changing innovation. SOURCE: Boeing. DESCRIPTION: Every day is the future for Emily Schnieders. She spends her working hours as a flight test conductor for the Boeing T-7A Red Hawk advanced trainer, a digital engineering pathfinder. In a recent conversation in St. Louis, Schnieders explained how she’s living her dream.

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Stacey Higginbotham

APRIL 1, 2022

Another IoT network nabs funding : Based out of Seattle, practically in Stacey’s backyard, is an IoT network startup named Teal Communications. This week, Teal raised $10.8 million in a Series A funding round, valuing the company at $100 million. The company’s core product is one of convenience and simplicity: It provides an eSIM platform to provision IoT devices on more than 2,000 networks in 195 countries.

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

SOURCE: Whirlpool Corporation. DESCRIPTION: ‘Precious Resource’. According to statistics from the United Nations, water scarcity affects every continent on the planet. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world’s population, live in areas of scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation. Water scarcity is thought by some experts to be one of the most pressing problems facing the world in the decades to come.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

APRIL 1, 2022

No official definition yet exists for the metaverse, but companies can’t afford to wait until one does or the metaverse fully evolves to start experimenting and investing in it.

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Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

SOURCE: Yum! Brands. DESCRIPTION: In honor of Women’s History month, these Restaurant General Managers (RGM) and Area Coaches share what’s most rewarding to them about working at Pizza Hut, their best advice, and their favorite menu items. Jessica De Leon, RGM American West Restaurant Group (AWRG). The most rewarding part about working at my restaurant has to be creating a fun working environment that makes the Team Members want to come to work.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 1, 2022

By José Tadeu Arantes | Agência FAPESP Disposal of food packaging is a major cause of environmental pollution worldwide. More than 350 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, and 85% of the garbage dumped in the oceans is plastic, according to estimates. Brazil is the fourth-largest producer, accounting for some 11 million … Continue reading Edible, biodegradable, anti-microbial plastic boasts higher tensile strength than petroleum-based plastic.

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

Duke Energy grants in Indiana helped Smith become a counselor to aid others. SOURCE: Duke Energy. DESCRIPTION: When Andy Smith counsels men and women struggling to overcome an addiction, he tells them a bit of his personal history and offers this advice: “Addiction wasn’t your problem. It was your solution.”. Though Smith said he’s never done hard drugs and rarely drank hard liquor, he said he resorted to unhealthy solutions after his parents died three weeks apart when he was 17 – his mother fr

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 1, 2022

by Tricia Barker, Prairie Research Institute The first-of-its-kind Illinois Basin – Decatur Project (IBDP), which concluded in 2021 after successfully demonstrating the safe geologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) at an almost-commercial scale, is releasing datasets in two easily accessible locations. Complete datasets are available through the U.S.

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In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

WSP Global, a Montreal-headquartered design and engineering consulting firm, said it will quit its current projects in Russia. SOURCE: WSP. DESCRIPTION: The firm in its quarterly earnings report – released on Wednesday – said it will exit the limited number of ongoing projects it has in Russia and will no longer be pursuing projects in Russia and Belarus.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

APRIL 1, 2022

Faster decision making, better interdepartment coordination, and a sharper focus on business priorities are much more possible with the thoughtful adoption of agile models.

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

SOURCE: Musim Mas. DESCRIPTION: Support for independent oil palm smallholder farmers has been a long-standing priority for Musim Mas. Since 2015, the company has been conducting training and providing assistance to smallholders to help them raise their productivity, acquire sustainable agricultural skills and the skills needed to gain access to financial services and supply chains.

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Utiliity Dive

APRIL 1, 2022

The program aims to "streamline and reduce barriers" to the deployment of advanced energy technologies on distribution systems run by Eversource Energy and United Illuminating.

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Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.