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Lenovo Included in 2023–2024 Corporate Equality Index for the Sixth Consecutive Year

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February 23, 2024 /3BL/ - Lenovo has been included in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for the sixth year in a row, receiving a score of 90 out of 100. and around the globe to increase our impact and shape the future of our work. workers and an additional 18 million outside of the US.

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Drilling Into the Skilled Trades Shortage: Stanley Black & Decker's Inaugural Makers Index Reveals Few Students Likely to Consider a Career in the Trades; Outdated Perceptions Key Drivers

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SUMMARY: Most students think skilled trades are a good career option, but just 16% are very likely to consider it. Young people underestimate the income potential for a skilled trade career; however, half of current skilled trade workers with less than 10 years' experience earned at least $50,000 to start.

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A look at the secret world where our waste ends up

Corporate Knights

“Waste has always been inflicted upon the margins,” said Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of the new book Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future. Franklin-Wallis compares that campaign to the way British Petroleum popularized the term “carbon footprint.”

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1,000 U.S. Military Veterans To Receive Housing Payment Assistance From the Home Depot Foundation in Honor of Veterans Day

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New Grant Funding Further Extends the Mission of The Home Depot Foundation. The grant brings HBI and the Foundation’s Path to Pro program, which, among other initiatives, provides free skilled trades training and certification to separating service members on or near 10 military bases, together with local Habitat affiliates around the bases.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” In Monday’s briefing, officials said they could attach no dollar figure to the financial flows that will be eliminated under the new framework.

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What if there was a cooking oil that didn't drive deforestation?

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The marketing campaign worked. Its success gave birth to a new era of cooking fats. That’s not good news for the Earth. Food-tech companies aren’t necessarily trying to keep consumers in the dark, but they feel pressure, in their quests to woo investors and reshape the world, not to divulge trade secrets. Crisco took off.

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Investors Urged to Stand up to ExxonMobil

Chris Hall

The solicitation also pointed to Exxon’s history of anti-climate policy lobbying and funding of climate misinformation campaigns – such as the now-defunct Global Climate Coalition. “ Exxon’s lawsuit was not filed in a vacuum,” Zinner noted. “It Wildfire catching? We support that authority,” he said.