GreenBiz
MAY 6, 2022
Individual circularity efforts are great and they can make a dent, but it’s clear at this point that no level of “going it alone” is going to get us where we need to be economy-wide.
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
Oconee Nuclear Station’s robot is one of the latest ways Duke Energy uses innovative technology to generate cleaner energy that’s affordable, reliable and safe. SOURCE: Duke Energy. DESCRIPTION: By Mikayla Kreuzberger. Duke Energy’s Oconee Nuclear Station has a new dog. “Spot” can sit, lie down and roll over. Unlike your average Rover, Spot is also trained to perform inspections of hard-to-access areas at the plant on Lake Keowee near Seneca, S.C.
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GreenBiz
MAY 6, 2022
Dan Fishman and Mike Smith, general partners of Regeneration.VC, talk about what differentiates its investment thesis and how it will work with large corporations.
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
SOURCE: Kimberly-Clark Corporation. DESCRIPTION: Kimberly-Clark recently awarded 2022 Bright Futures college scholarships totaling $980,000 to 49 students for academic achievement and leadership in their schools and communities. Now in its 30 th year, Bright Futures provides scholarship grants worth up to $20,000, or $5,000 per school year, to children of Kimberly-Clark employees throughout North America.
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.
GreenBiz
MAY 6, 2022
Danish energy firm is aiming to achieve a net positive impact on biodiversity across all of its new projects from 2030.
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
Rural lifestyle retailer releases most robust sustainability report to date. SOURCE: Tractor Supply. DESCRIPTION: Tractor Supply Company (NYSE: TSCO), the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States recently released its Stewards of Life Out Here Sustainability Report , detailing aggressive plans to achieve ESG goals in its operations and in the communities the Company serves.
ESG Impact Zone brings together the best content for ESG professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
Accredited members of the media are invited to hear from the companies and investors at the cutting edge of clean energy advocacy at a virtual roundtable on May 11, including CEOs and executives from Siemens and Hannon Armstrong. SOURCE: Ceres. DESCRIPTION: May 6, 2022 /3BL Media/ - As Congress considers an ambitious climate package, more than 90 influential companies and investors are preparing to make the urgent economic case for robust federal investments in clean energy and advanced manufact
Cisco CSR
MAY 6, 2022
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, or Continuous Deployment, pipelines have been used in the software development industry for years. For most teams, the days of manually taking source code and manifest files and compiling them to create binaries or executable files and then manually distributing and installing those applications are long gone.
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
SOURCE: AllianceBernstein. DESCRIPTION: Integrating ESG into the investment process can create a path to better outcomes, but the “how” matters. Watch this video to learn more about the important role that responsibility plays at AB. Visit AllianceBernstein.com for more information: [link]. About AllianceBernstein. AllianceBernstein is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals and priv
Cisco CSR
MAY 6, 2022
Co-authored by Vaughn Suazo. The digital transformation in this decade is demanding more from the network. Multi-cloud, edge, telework, 5G, and IoT are creating an evolved connectivity ecosystem characterized by highly distributed elements needing to communicate with one another in a complex, multi-domain, many-to-many fashion. The world of north-south, east-west traffic flows is quickly disappearing.
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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
Financial services company appears as #56 on list of 500 top U.S. companies. SOURCE: Principal Financial Group. DESCRIPTION: DES MOINES, Iowa, May 6, 2022 /3BL Media/ – Principal Financial Group ® was named to the Forbes list of America’s Best Employers for Diversity 2022. This is the company’s third year on the list and highest ranking yet – appearing as number 56 on the total list of 500 companies.
Alternative Energy Mag
MAY 6, 2022
“The IEES project in Rialto, CA is a 100MW stand-alone battery energy storage system contracted to produce 400MWhs of capacity by the summer of 2024,” said Josh Rogol, Chief Development Officer for Strata. “As a fully developed BESS with site control, an executed interconnection agreement and completed entitlements, IEES was well positioned to respond to the request for offers.
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
The Taco Bell Foundation recognizes more than 770 young minds working to pursue higher education and nontraditional paths. SOURCE: Yum! Brands. DESCRIPTION: IRVINE, Calif., May 6, 2022 /3BL Media/ - There’s a new class of Live Más Scholars! Today, the Taco Bell Foundation announced more than $8 million in scholarships to break down barriers to education for 772 passionate students looking to ignite change in their communities and across the country.
Just Capital
MAY 6, 2022
(JPMorgan Chase). For well over a decade, JPMorgan Chase has been developing a corporate responsibility arm that is integral to the bank’s business strategy rather than a silo of philanthropy. CEO and chairman Jamie Dimon picked Peter Scher to lead this mission back in 2008, and Scher was so successful in this role that he was promoted to vice chair, where he continues to oversee the team he helped build.
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
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
By Cedric van Cutsem, Senior Director Cocoa Life, Mondel?z International. SOURCE: Mondel?z International. DESCRIPTION: Forests help stabilise the climate: they regulate ecosystems, protect biodiversity, drive sustainable growth — and play an integral part in the carbon cycle. Climate change remains the biggest challenge facing our planet, its people – and businesses — and the cocoa sector has a key role to play in tackling this issue.
Energy Central
MAY 6, 2022
NACFE takes the education of electrification in commercial trucking very seriously. We have a far reaching network of fleets, OEMs, dealerships, suppliers and others engaged in this transformation. If you are attending the huge ACT Expo in Long Beach and would like to have a "tour guide" of some of the products as well as many of the people, please contact David.Schaller@NACFE.org or.
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
Reuter-Stokes drives technology innovation for 100 Twinsburg-Area High School Students at STEM event with help from Funny Car Drag Racing World Champion and his 330mph vehicle. SOURCE: Baker Hughes. DESCRIPTION: TWINSBURG, Ohio, May 6, 2022 /3BL Media/ – Reuter-Stokes, a Baker Hughes business, hosted a successful STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) event for 100 Twinsburg-Area High School students at its global headquarters in Twinsburg, Ohio today.
Jon Hale
MAY 6, 2022
End of Week Notes Short-term performance goes up and down, but your impact is growing In late February I wrote that a long-term commitment to sustainability can help investors weather short-term market turmoil. A Long-Term Commitment to Sustainability Can Help Investors Weather Short-Term Market Turmoil Two months later, as we near bear-market territory, that message bears repeating.
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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
MAY 6, 2022
SOURCE: Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG). DESCRIPTION: Meter Reader Jeremy Wedick of PSE&G’s New Brunswick customer team immediately knew something was wrong when he saw an elderly woman using a walker walking aimlessly around the neighborhood with a bag full of cash. Jeremy approached the woman, and it was clear she was disoriented and confused.
Environmental News Bits
MAY 6, 2022
by Mark J. Lara, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in the span of a few days. Hillsides slump. Ice-rich ground collapses, leaving the landscape wavy where it once was flat, and in some locations creating vast … Continue reading Thawing permafrost is roiling the Arctic landscape, driven by a hidden world of changes beneath the surface as the climate warms.
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
Take a Moment This Mother’s Day to Thank the Moms in Your Life. SOURCE: P&G. DESCRIPTION: From our coworkers to our consumers, P&G understands that empowering mothers with the support and products they need will help them thrive every day. For P&G moms and caregivers, there are a variety of company programs, initiatives and policies that set them up for success and enable a healthy work-life balance.
Environment + Energy Leader
MAY 6, 2022
Unilever is experimenting with raising the temperature of its ice cream freezers to lower emissions and energy use. The post Unilever Tests Warmer Ice Cream Freezer Temps to Lower Energy, Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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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
MAY 6, 2022
SOURCE: Freeport-McMoRan. DESCRIPTION: A new esplanade constructed with financial support from Minera El Abra will help provide economic opportunity in the El Loa Province in northern Chile. The esplanade primarily will be used as a seafood market for the Tocopilla Fisher’s Union in the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta where Minera El Abra operates a copper mine.
Stacey Higginbotham
MAY 6, 2022
That’s a lot of LoRaWANs! The LoRa Alliance says that LoRaWAN networks rose by 66% in the last three years. The Alliance didn’t report base numbers, but did provide an analyst quote saying that by 2025 there will be 2 billion LoRaWAN devices on those networks. For reference, the Wi-Fi Alliance estimates that there will be 5.2 billion Wi-Fi 6 product shipments by 2025.
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
SOURCE: Fifth Third Bancorp. DESCRIPTION: Fifth Third Bank is releasing an in-depth and informative white paper called The Case for ESG and Responsible, Sustainable Investing. Published this week , the white paper demonstrates the Bank’s thought leadership for institutional and retail investors, providing insights and best practices on ESG investing.
McKinsey Sustainabilty
MAY 6, 2022
How does being a parent inform how women show up at work, and vice versa? For Mother’s Day 2022, we asked eight McKinsey partners to share their thoughts.
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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
MAY 6, 2022
SOURCE: Whirlpool Corporation. DESCRIPTION: Habitat for Humanity of Findlay/Hancock County and Whirlpool Corp. Findlay Operations are continuing a two decade legacy by teaming up to build the milestone 50th Habitat home in Findlay/Hancock County. “A house provides the blueprint for success in life, a secure space to gather with family and friends and dream for the future.
Caux Round Table
MAY 6, 2022
Inflation is becoming a problem here in the U.S. and with the spillover effects of the war in Ukraine, inflation may become a global affliction too. I am not aware of much comment on the relationship of inflation to capitalism, but it seems to me, as I argue below, that inflation is more of a failure of government than of capitalism itself. … Moral Capitalism and Inflation?
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
SOURCE: Boston Scientific. DESCRIPTION: A key lesson of the pandemic is that we must keep mental health squarely on the workplace agenda. When employees take better care of their health, they're happier and more productive. The airlines have it right when they ask us to put on our own oxygen masks before helping fellow passengers don theirs in an emergency.
McKinsey Sustainabilty
MAY 6, 2022
The stakes are high for financial-services firms to reorient their offices around learning, inclusion, and innovation.
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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.
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