From his earliest days, Thomas Neblett could usually be found on a farm – often out among the soybeans, corn, cotton and rice fields of his family’s 9,000 acres in the Mississippi Delta.
3BL Sustainability News
IWBI Launches the International Healthy Building Accord With Support From Public Health Luminaries, Dozens of WELL APs and Other Healthy Building Champions
Throughout the year, IWBI will mobilize its global community of healthy building leaders, practitioners and advocates to gather signatures for the Accord, with the goal of presenting it to government leaders, international bodies such as the United Nations, and global health organizations, urging action and implementation of its recommendations.
Science and Entrepreneurship
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode, entrepreneurs David Roubach and Felix Bobbink share their sustainability innovations within the plastics industry and how they are revolutionizing plastics at both consumer and industrial levels. Dow Global Business Development Director Christophe Marché highlights the need for large businesses to pivot and become disruptive, and University of California, Berkeley professor Dr. Ting Xu shares how at the core of all this disruptive innovation is science and research.
EPISODE NOTES
FedEx and Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Help Children of Veterans
FedEx has been a longtime supporter of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation (MCSF), providing annual support to the organization through scholarships to military veteran’s children. This year FedEx provided scholarships to 22 students through MCSF.
How Edge Devices Can Help Mitigate the Global Environmental Cost of Generative AI
Written by Angela Baker
The economic value of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to the world is immense. Research from McKinsey estimates that generative AI could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually.1
Helping To Change Perceptions of Bloodwork by Being ‘Phenomenal’
The idea of getting a blood draw can produce a variety of feelings for many patients at Quest.
For one patient in New Jersey, the experience of visiting a Patient Service Center (PSC) has turned into one they felt the need to share for good reason!
The Voorhees PSC, located in southern New Jersey recently received the following compliment from a patient:
HUD’s RAD for Section 202 PRAC Program: A Vital Initiative for Elderly Affordable Housing
Ensuring affordable housing for the elderly population is critical in today’s housing marketplace. The Section 202 Project Rental Assistance Contract Program (PRAC) through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides rental assistance to elderly residents.
RAD for PRAC background
Longhorn Electric Racing Is Building the Future of Electric Vehicles With Cadence Tools
Longhorn Racing is a student-run racing team at the University of Texas at Austin. Not only are they building the best race cars, but they’re also building the future generation of engineers.
Longhorn Racing’s electric vehicle team was founded in 2016. Some of the challenges they face in designing an electric car are making sure it can go as fast as possible, making sure it has sufficient cooling, and doing that in an effective way that avoids spending hundreds of thousands of dollars creating physical models. This is where Cadence Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) comes in.
Northern Trust India Observes Neurodiversity Awareness Month
Neurodiversity Awareness Month was recently observed at our offices in India.
Our employee led Abilities Business Resource Council organized several events and initiatives locally to raise employee awareness about neurodiversity.
