3BL Sustainability News
Cisco Networking Academy Helps Veterans With Career Transition Programs
Defense personnel are often unsung heroes—potentially putting their lives on the line to serve their communities. Giving back to those who choose to serve, or are transitioning out of the armed forces, is clearly the right thing to do. We’re proud that Cisco Networking Academy partners with organizations around the world looking after the unique needs of current and former military service people.
Training-up down under
The Carton Council and Kelly Green Products Announce Fully Commissioned End Market for Cartons
WATERBURY, Conn., November 15, 2023 /3BL/ -The Carton Council and Kelly Green Products announced today that the Kelly Green Products manufacturing facility in Connecticut is now fully operational, recycling food and beverage cartons 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The plant transforms cartons into durable, sustainable building materials, expanding the domestic market for recycled cartons.
Carbon Emissions From U.S. Power Sector Decreased Slightly in 2022, Nineteenth Annual Benchmarking Report Finds
November 15, 2023 /3BL/ - Due to a drop in coal generation, the U.S. power sector saw a marginal reduction of less than 1% in carbon emissions in 2022, according to the latest analysis of air emissions for the country's top 100 power producers. The report shows that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2022 are down 34% below their peak levels in 2007.
Covia’s 30-Year Partnership With Wildlife Habitat Council: Promoting Biodiversity and Conservation
Covia is the responsible steward of over 80,000 acres of land across our footprint. Planning for responsible land use is embedded throughout the life cycle of our operations – from our careful approach to early development and operational planning, to our production phase, all the way through our collaborative reclamation process aimed at protecting, restoring, and nurturing the land and biodiversity. With the help of key partners, we have helped restore a variety of ecosystems, including wetlands, forests, ranchlands, shorelines, prairies and more.
Building Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Initiatives for Your Small Business
By Kristy Lilas, Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at GoDaddy
Climate Change Preparedness Means Planning
By The Black & Veatch Insights Group
The escalating frequency and strength of hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts and environmental impacts offer tangible evidence that climate change is making severe weather events increasingly unpredictable and more costly.
It begs the question: With the ever-present effects of climate change influencing the world, how are electric utilities dealing with the risks?
World's Leading CEOs Discuss How Purpose Propels Profit
NEW YORK, November 14, 2023 /3BL/ - Demonstrating how purpose propels profit, leading CEOs who are a part of a coalition of more than 200 of the world’s largest companies collectively representing $8.7 trillion in annual revenue and $47 billion in total community investment, attended Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose’s© (CECP) Board of Boards yesterday in New York, New York.
This closed-door, CEO-only session focused on the purpose driven leadership in a volatile and every changing world. CEO discussion leaders included:
Yum! Employees Are Living Well
At Yum! Brands, we believe in the importance of physical, emotional and financial wellbeing and have carefully crafted benefits to help employees in these areas. Recently teams had the chance to experience these benefits during Live Well Weeks hosted at each of our U.S.-based restaurant support centers. During these 14 days, they learned several ways to improve their wellbeing, like how to prevent diabetes, how to plan for retirement and how to manage stress.
Whole Planet Foundation Approves $50,000 to Smiling Through Light To Scale Pay-As-You-Go Operations in Sierra Leone
Founded in 2005, the foundation is a private, non-profit organization established by Whole Foods Market and dedicated to poverty alleviation. The nonprofit's mission is to empower the world’s poorest people with microcredit and the chance to expand a home-based business and lift themselves and families out poverty. To date, Whole Planet Foundation has disbursed $107 million through microlending partners worldwide, funding 7 million microloans and 35 million income-generating opportunities.
