3BL Sustainability News

Duke Energy Progress Receives Approval for New Rates in North Carolina, Implements New Programs To Help Customers

  • Rates include upgrades to make the grid more resilient and shorten the duration of outages
  • New programs will give customers more control over energy use, support low-income customers
  • Approval includes performance incentive mechanisms to hold the utility accountable for reliability, encourage renewables and reduce peak system loads

3BL Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2023

NORTHAMPTON, Mass., October 18, 2023 /3BL/ - 3BL announced today the annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking, recognizing outstanding environmental, social and governance (ESG) transparency and performance among the 1,000 largest U.S. public companies.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has achieved the top ranking in this year’s ranking, with Accenture, HP Inc., Hasbro & Estee Lauder rounding out the top five.

Father Lays Foundation for an American Legacy

For this Puerto Rican family, family is everything. Luis Rodriguez-Sepulveda joined American in the 1960’s working at San Juan Airport in Tech Ops, helping mechanics find the right parts and tools for the job. His children grew up watching him come home from his job each day with a smile and pride in his work. Soon after, four of his children followed in his footsteps to continue his legacy. creating the “Rodriguez Five.”

Arizona Helping Hands Completes Renovation of Foster Resource Center

PHOENIX, October 17, 2023 /3BL/ – On Oct. 12, Arizona Helping Hands renovated its foster resource shopping center. Three organizations joined forces with Arizona Helping Hands to provide complementary essential resources to children on a foster care journey and to make the experience warm, comforting and provide a relaxed environment.

Asking Stakeholders for Their Opinions – Will This Help To Shape ISS ESG Ratings?

Corporate executives and board members may wonder what specific factors are shaping the scores and ratings assigned to their companies by the major ESG ratings agencies. These include MSCI, Sustainalytics (part of Morningstar), Refinitiv (owned by London Stock Exchange group), Bloomberg, and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) – one of the last ratings agencies to adopt ESG research and ratings for companies.

U.S. Bank Engineer Recognized by NASA for Commercial Invention of the Year Award

Originally published on U.S. Bank company blog

Robots. Astronauts. Space centers.

For most of us, these are the subjects of a sci-fi thriller. For Adam Sanders, they were the thrill of daily work. In 2006, the college grad launched his career as an engineer with General Motors, which quickly led to his selection to participate in a partnership with NASA for more than six years.

Transformative New Product Connecting Careers and Classrooms

At Discovery Education, we are always looking to meet educator’s needs. Educators require flexible, reliable, and high-quality services that fit in wherever learning takes place and really ignite student curiosity. We know that when students have early exposure to careers, it transforms how they explore and enter the workforce. Yet research shows that 83% of today’s learners can't connect the skills they have and learn in school to future employment.

How To Unlock Student Potential With Today’s Technology

As we now possess pre- and post-COVID academic data, we can see the magnitude of learning loss that has occurred across the globe. Test scores in math and literacy confirm that far fewer children are achieving proficiency levels in core curricula. A recent study states it will take five or more years for many older children to recover from pandemic learning loss.1

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