Logistics gets on a sustainable track
GreenBiz
APRIL 4, 2022
Moving target: A truckload of technologies, partnerships and global agreements comprise new solutions for the space.
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Australia’s biggest wind and solar hybrid plant begins production
Renew Economy
APRIL 21, 2022
Australia's largest wind and solar hybrid facility begins production in South Australia, near the home of the state's last coal generator. The post Australia’s biggest wind and solar hybrid plant begins production appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Canada ranks dead last among G7 on climate progress: Earth Index
Corporate Knights
APRIL 19, 2022
Canada must make up for lost ground if it’s going to meet its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 45% from 2005 levels by 2030. Among the 10 most developed G20 countries assessed by Corporate Knights’ Earth Index analysis , “Canada was the worst performing country of the whole group in 2019,” said Ralph Torrie, Corporate Knights’ director of research.
Expanding Environmental Commitments
3BL Media
APRIL 13, 2022
SOURCE: Qualcomm. DESCRIPTION: We believe that climate change is a serious environmental, social and economic threat that calls for immediate and concerted action among all sectors of society. That’s why, in 2021, we expanded our commitment to reducing our operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in our value chain and ensured our new targets were aligned to the latest climate science by committing to and joining the Science Based Targets Initiative’s Business Ambition for 1.5°C and the United
Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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.
Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil | Garry Kasparov
TEDxInnovations
APRIL 11, 2022
Ukraine is on the front line of a war between freedom and tyranny, says chess grandmaster and human rights advocate Garry Kasparov. In this blistering call to action, he traces Vladimir Putin's rise to power and details his own path from chess world champion to pro-democracy activist in Russia. His message is a challenge to global leaders to rise in support of Ukraine -- and to choose life and love over death and hatred.
Insteon is down and may not be coming back
Stacey Higginbotham
APRIL 16, 2022
Is your Insteon smart home system down? I’m getting reports from dozens of Insteon users that as of Friday their smart home hubs have stopped working. So far, none of them have heard from the company, and Insteon’s Twitter account hasn’t been updated since June 2021. I reached out to Rob Lilleness, the president and chairman of Smartlabs, the company that owns Insteon and have not yet heard back.
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“Climate greatest threat to Australia’s security”: ex-defence chief says
Renew Economy
APRIL 20, 2022
National security experts call on Australians to use looming federal election to back candidates backing action on climate change. The post “Climate greatest threat to Australia’s security”: ex-defence chief says appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Why is Ontario making new buildings less energy efficient?
Corporate Knights
APRIL 13, 2022
Chris Ballard is a former Ontario minister of housing and environment and climate change and the CEO of Passive House Canada, a national non-profit professional association that advocates for the Passive House high-performance building standard. If you could live in a home that was highly energy efficient , climate resilient, comfortable and healthy for about the same cost as a code-built home and was built to outlast current buildings, would you move in?
Global warming is projected to exceed 1.8°C, according to McKinsey report
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 26, 2022
The energy transition continues to gain steam, with oil demand projected to peak in this decade, perhaps as soon as 2025, according to new research by global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. This year’s Global Energy Perspective launches at a time when global energy markets are facing an unprecedented array of uncertainties, including the conflict in Ukraine.
ChatOps: How to Build Your First Webex Bot
Cisco CSR
APRIL 18, 2022
Welcome to the first blog of our series on how to use the Webex API to code up ChatOps workflows! In this post, you’ll learn how to create a Webex bot, register a Webhook in Webex, and configure your bot to listen to Webhook – all with plenty of code examples. Check back for more as we build new use cases that leverage different aspects of automation using chat-driven interfaces.
Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?
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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.
Hybrid work: Making it fit with your diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy
McKinsey Sustainabilty
APRIL 20, 2022
New research details what empowered employees love about hybrid work models and the risks to diversity, equity, and inclusion if managers get the evolving flexible workplace wrong.
How climate change is disrupting the global supply chain
GreenBiz
APRIL 18, 2022
Extreme weather, from floods to wildfires, is increasingly hammering ports, highways and factories worldwide.
South Australia grid reaches record high of 136.6 pct renewables
Renew Economy
APRIL 18, 2022
South Australia sets a new benchmark of 136.6 per cent renewables - as a share of local demand - early on Easter Sunday. The post South Australia grid reaches record high of 136.6 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
With Insteon down, possibly for good, what options do you have for your devices?
Stacey Higginbotham
APRIL 20, 2022
This hasn’t been a good week for the smart home as yet another connected device service seems to have disappeared. It appears anyone using Insteon products has faced a dead-end as the company’s cloud service has gone silent. So too has the company up to this point. What are Insteon device owners and service users to do? The first thing is: If you have an Insteon hub, make sure you don’t factory reset it !
Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability: Where Does ESG Fit In?
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
Chipotle, Intel, and Prudential Leaders Share How They’re Using Transparency, Real-Time Feedback, and Advancement to Recruit and Retain Workers
Just Capital
APRIL 7, 2022
Sharon Epperson sits down with Marissa Andrada, Christy Pambianchi, and Lata Reddy to talk investing in workers. (Christopher Galluzzo). After capturing the attention of economists, employers, investors, and others for nearly a year, the “Great Resignation” may be showing signs of slowing. The latest jobs report from the Department of Labor shows the U.S. has recovered 93% of jobs lost since the beginning of the pandemic, and new research finds that current quit rates are in-line wit
5G: Enabling Change For Manufacturers
Cisco CSR
APRIL 21, 2022
In today’s world of manufacturing, there is a new convergence happening. A greater number of available technologies are meeting the dynamics of changing workforces, fragile supply chains, and the ever-present market demand for better and cheaper products and services. However, manufacturers still face a unique challenge: how to maximize investments in various technologies to achieve the most impactful ROI or as we like to refer to them, “enablers of change”.
How COVID-19 caused a global learning crisis
McKinsey Sustainabilty
APRIL 3, 2022
The pandemic has taken a substantial toll on students’ academic progress as well as on their mental health. School systems can respond across multiple horizons to help students get back on track.
Solutions to the climate crisis will come from the multitudes
GreenBiz
APRIL 6, 2022
Climate change is not just a systemic problem, it’s also a leadership crisis.
What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?
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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
Australia will miss its weak 2030 emissions reduction targets, new data shows
Renew Economy
APRIL 21, 2022
Australia set to fall short of its weak Paris Agreement target for emissions, thanks to the lack of meaningful federal policy. The post Australia will miss its weak 2030 emissions reduction targets, new data shows appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering
Stacey Higginbotham
APRIL 22, 2022
Smart home company Insteon has shut off its servers , lost its management team, and on Thursday sent an email to customers explaining how it plans to sell any remaining assets to help pay off creditors as part of a formal dissolution of the business. It has been the most drama-filled end of a consumer IoT company to date — and also represents one of the biggest opportunities left for the Matter smart home standard going forward.
Evrnu Launches Recyclable Lyocell Material Made from Cotton Textile Waste
Environment + Energy Leader
APRIL 6, 2022
Textile company Evrnu is launching the world’s first high performance, recyclable lyocell material made entirely from cotton textile waste. Doing this allows a way to replace plastic-based materials. The post Evrnu Launches Recyclable Lyocell Material Made from Cotton Textile Waste appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Security Resilience in EMEA
Cisco CSR
APRIL 20, 2022
What makes a successful cybersecurity program and how can organizations improve their resilience in a world that seems increasingly unpredictable? How do we know what actually works and what doesn’t in order to maximize success? These are the types of burning questions guiding Cisco’s Security Outcomes Study series. In the second edition of the study, Cisco conducted an independent, double-blind survey of over 5,100 IT professionals in 27 countries.
What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?
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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.
Nuclear energy should not be part of the global solution to climate change
Utiliity Dive
APRIL 12, 2022
Neither existing nor proposed reactors have a business case, so they have no climate case either. In energy as in financial portfolios, backing losers — diversifying into poor investments — only hurts performance, the author writes.
America’s Top 10 Companies for Environmental Performance in 2022
Just Capital
APRIL 22, 2022
Apple’s California Flats solar farm, which helps power its Cupertino, California headquarters. (Apple). This week marks the 52nd annual Earth Day. For corporate America, the occasion typically sees a flurry of announcements and declarations of companies’ dedication to managing their environmental impact. This year, however, companies should also be preparing to take a further step in proving how they’re putting these commitments and statements into practice.
Consumers would enjoy lower electricity costs with a faster exit from coal
Renew Economy
APRIL 21, 2022
Consumers would enjoy lower prices with a faster switch to renewables, but in W.A. the state Labor government is not listening. The post Consumers would enjoy lower electricity costs with a faster exit from coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.
TinyML needs a big use case. Or any use case.
Stacey Higginbotham
APRIL 4, 2022
What if you threw a party but half the guests of honor never showed? That was the situation at the tinyML Summit that took place in San Francisco earlier this week. Together, chip vendors, startups trying to shrink machine learning (ML) algorithms, and dozens of academics put on an amazing event that demonstrated several breakthroughs when it comes to making machine learning fit on the world’s smallest microcontrollers.
The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges
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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.
Report: Surging Energy Prices Accelerating Pace of Wind, Solar, Battery Adoption
Environment + Energy Leader
APRIL 5, 2022
Surging global energy prices are supercharging the already rapid pace of growth in solar, wind, and battery storage projects, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis US 2022 Power Sector Outlook. The post Report: Surging Energy Prices Accelerating Pace of Wind, Solar, Battery Adoption appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
The More You Know: Job Searching & Interviewing
Cisco CSR
APRIL 28, 2022
In the midst of global change and virtual hiring, the landscape of job searching has changed. We sat down (via WebEx) with recruiting leaders, accessibility experts and career changers at Cisco Secure and Duo Security to find out the top 10 ways to make the virtual job search, application and interview process as easeful as possible. Stay tuned for future topics in this series including advice for career changers and environmental aspects to consider for long-term fulfillment at work. 1.
Automated solar permitting program sees 31 MW approved in first year of operation
Utiliity Dive
APRIL 19, 2022
The DOE-backed solar permitting platform is looking to expand services after its first year of operation, but its developer says some barriers remain in place, including for utility-scale applications.
How the fashion industry can get into a metaverse mindset
McKinsey Sustainabilty
APRIL 7, 2022
Shoppers, particularly those in Gen Z, are spending more time online and exploring the possibilities of the metaverse. Here’s what fashion and luxury players need to know about this emerging frontier.
Supercharge Your ESG Content This Libra Season
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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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