GreenBiz

MAY 20, 2022

The retail giant launched its Circular Connector "to accelerate innovation in the field of sustainable and circular packaging.

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MAY 20, 2022

SOURCE: DuPont. DESCRIPTION: What is your vision of sustainability for DuPont? I want DuPont to be the partner of choice for our customers by meeting or exceeding our 2030 sustainability goals. We have come a long way and I see increasing connectivity to creating value for our customers through our own sustainable actions. I am excited about the potential for collaboration along the value chain and this will be critical for success in Scope 3.

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GreenBiz

MAY 20, 2022

The Atlanta audience voted for Sortile, a New York-based startup that uses imaging technology to enable low-cost apparel sorting by fiber type.

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MAY 20, 2022

Support Advances Racial Equity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education and Careers. SOURCE: American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). DESCRIPTION: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 20, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Today AISES announces the Christensen Fund has awarded a $200,000 general operating support grant to widen Indigenous access to, and participation in, the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce, and grow sector support.

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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

MAY 20, 2022

Highlights from Circularity 22, including green chemistry pioneer John Warner, sustainability marketing maven Suzanne Shelton and champion of the information waste collection sector, Keiran Smith of Mr. Green Africa.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

SOURCE: Quest Diagnostics. DESCRIPTION: We are proud to support the American Heart Association HBCU Scholars. Congratulations to the 50 Scholars who completed this year’s program that concluded with a symposium showcasing their research. Read more about these future healthcare leaders: [link]. About Quest Diagnostics Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

SOURCE: Mondel?z International. DESCRIPTION: We are proud to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with our colleagues this month. Jie Cheng, VP & Global Head of e-Commerce & DTC, shares what Asian Leadership means to her: "A strong leader who communicates a clear vision and is able to mobilize a team or organization around this vision and does this with integrity, openness and empathy.".

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Cisco CSR

MAY 20, 2022

This is the third post in a series about writing ChatOps services on top of the Webex API. In the first post , we built a Webex Bot that received message events from a group room and printed the event JSON out to the console. In the second , we added security to that Bot, adding an encrypted authentication header to Webex events, and subsequently adding a simple list of authorized users to the event handler.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

SOURCE: National Association of Water Companies. DESCRIPTION: WASHINGTON, May 20, 2022 /3BL Media/ - As cybersecurity risks and threats continue to grow and become more sophisticated, the National Association of Water Companies (NAWC) brought industry experts, regulators and federal partners together this week to discuss best practices and solutions as part of its 2022 Cybersecurity Symposium.

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Utiliity Dive

MAY 20, 2022

Two commissioners pointed to the renewable energy shift as a key culprit in the "reliability crisis" while others called out extreme weather and drought.

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MAY 20, 2022

Goal is to restore at least 7,000 hectares – equivalent to 9,800 football pitches – of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil by 2030. SOURCE: Tetra Pak. SUMMARY: The Araucaria Conservation Programme is the industry’s first nature-based initiative, focused on the restoration of degraded rural land using native species and providing benefits for both local communities and flora and fauna in the region.

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Cisco CSR

MAY 20, 2022

Getting involved in the open-source community (especially early in your career) is a smart move for many reasons. When you help others, you almost always get help in return. You can make connections that can last your entire career, helping you down the road in ways you can’t anticipate. In this article, we’ll cover more about why you should consider contributing to open source, and how to get started.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

Qualcomm’s chief sustainability officer Angela Baker on how companies can view going “digital” as a way not only toward growth, as laid out in a recent report, but also toward establishing and meeting environmental, social and governance goals. SOURCE: Qualcomm. DESCRIPTION: By Chris Stokel-Walker. Three letters dominate business practice at present: ESG, or environmental, social and governance goals.

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Stacey Higginbotham

MAY 20, 2022

Note : This story ran in the May 13, 2022 newsletter, but because of a misunderstanding, parts of it were wrong and another part needed clarification. I have adjusted the post below to provide y’all with the most accurate and most recent information. Thread launched back in 2014 as a wireless networking protocol designed for a world of millions or billions of connected devices.

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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

MAY 20, 2022

Is your home or business electrically safe and energy efficient? SOURCE: Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG). DESCRIPTION: NEWARK, N.J., May 20, 2022 /3BL Media/ — PSE&G and the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) are teaming up during National Electrical Safety Month to increase awareness about the dangers of electricity and how to prepare your home or business for safe and efficient energy use.

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Cisco CSR

MAY 20, 2022

The Cisco Cloud Networking team and ServiceNow have a solid partnership that spans several years to deliver deep product integrations and solutions that help customers to address important service management challenges that include aligning their infrastructure to cater to critical business services, accelerating the network service delivery through approval-based workflow automation and adhering to SLAs through incident automation.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

Blackstone’s investment in Medable, a leading provider of decentralized clinical trial technology, is helping get effective therapies to more patients. SOURCE: Blackstone. DESCRIPTION: By Ram Jagannath. At Blackstone, our healthcare investments focus on scientific and technological innovations transforming the entire ecosystem, from improving patient experiences to creating new efficiencies.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

MAY 20, 2022

Organizations face an urgent need to overhaul their tech architecture and operating model to keep pace with the changing landscape. Five concrete actions can accelerate the transformation journey.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

SOURCE: Cummins Inc. DESCRIPTION: Cummins Inc., a global power and hydrogen technologies leader, and Daimler Truck North America, the largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America, are collaborating to upfit and validate Freightliner Cascadia trucks with a Cummins hydrogen fuel cell powertrain for use in North America. Freightliner will leverage Cummins’ fourth generation fuel cell powertrain, which provides improved power density, efficiency and durability.

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Utiliity Dive

MAY 20, 2022

The approved storage contracts will help California ensure grid reliability during the net peak hours, when electricity demand is still high but solar production is waning, according to regulators.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

SOURCE: Duke Energy. SUMMARY: More than 170,000 pounds of high-quality concrete are used to create ‘Duke Energy/CCA Florida Reef’. (Coastal Conservation Association Florida issued the following news release this week.). DESCRIPTION: ORLANDO, Fla., May 11, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Coastal Conservation Association Florida (CCA Florida) – the state’s leading organization dedicated to marine fisheries conservation, education and advocacy – joined Duke Energy Florida, in partnership with the Mexico Beach A

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Stacey Higginbotham

MAY 20, 2022

Samsara sells a full IoT stack. With so much fragmentation in the IoT, it’s nice to see a company sell everything an organization could need to digitize physical operations. Instead of having to find and buy sensors, then seek out cloud management services and try to fit the pieces together, Samsara says its full IoT stack approach is what the world needs.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

SOURCE: Baker Hughes. DESCRIPTION: A new research partnership aims to clarify best practices and help industry come to grips with disclosing Scope 3 GHG emissions. Unease and a sense of mistrust are growing around the consistency of data used to report carbon emissions and quantify the changes made by companies, industries, and countries. As a result, genuine changes for the better may not be acknowledged and emulated, while changes for the worse, which are bound to happen, may be taken for gran

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Cisco CSR

MAY 20, 2022

Last week, Cisco’s Head of Open Source, Stephen Augustus, and I joined nearly 100 executives from 37 companies and leaders from the White House and across the U.S. federal government in Washington DC at the Open Source Software Security Summit II to finalize an action plan to boost the security of open source software (“OSS”). The development of this plan and its effective implementation are vital given how foundational OSS is to so many products and services we use every day to live, work, lear

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

New high-resolution imaging solutions from Boston Scientific are designed to provide a clearer view of the human anatomy. SOURCE: Boston Scientific. DESCRIPTION: By Fastco Works. Dr. D. Kyle Hogarth, the director of bronchoscopy at the University of Chicago, works in a bustling ICU where he often needs to perform rapid endoscopic procedures. His procedures entail threading a tube-shaped device called a bronchoscope into a patient’s nose or mouth to access and examine the lungs and airways.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 20, 2022

Fuller, R., et al (2022). “Pollution and health: a progress update.” The Lancet [link] Abstract: The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world’s largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the … Continue reading Pollution and health: a progress update.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

Whirlpool Corporation’s Be*Well initiatives provide U.S. employees with new holistic wellbeing offerings. SOURCE: Whirlpool Corporation. DESCRIPTION: As part of Whirlpool Corporation’s ongoing commitment to wellbeing, the company has introduced a holistic “Be*Well” initiative. It provides a range of support and resources to empower and encourage employees to be well in all aspects of their lives at home and work.

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Utiliity Dive

MAY 20, 2022

Summertime forward power prices are up between 77% and 223% from a year ago, driven by higher gas prices, FERC staff said Thursday.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

In Sweetwater, Texas, Georgia-Pacific honors the first females to fly United States military aircraft with a donation to support the National WASP WWII Museum. SOURCE: Georgia-Pacific. DESCRIPTION: SWEETWATER, Texas, May 5, 2022 /3BL Media/ - "You can be whatever you set your heart and head to be." Annelle Bulecheck should know; she was part of WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots - the first females to fly U.S. military aircraft in WWII.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

MAY 20, 2022

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law introduces a new level of funding considerations for state and local governments. States with high ambitions are already in the thick of it—what now?

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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.