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Salt Lake City 2002: A Springboard for the Growth of Winter Sport

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DESCRIPTION: The Olympic Winter Games Salt Lake City 2002 served as a springboard for growing winter sport and bringing more major sporting events to the state of Utah. Salt Lake City 2002 helped to heal a nation reeling from the terrorist attack in the U.S. Sport Development. SOURCE: International Olympic Committee.

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South Dallas Innercity Community Development Corporation Is Going Solar, Thanks to Green Mountain Energy Sun Club

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DESCRIPTION: DALLAS, August 24, 2022 /3BL Media/ – The South Dallas/Fair Park Innercity Community Development Corporation (ICDC) is taking another step toward sustainability by installing a solar array on the roof of its building. Since 2002, Green Mountain Energy Sun Club has advanced sustainability by donating nearly $11.7

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Recap: Sustainable Retail Summit 2002 - Day 2

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DJ Forza, Campaign Manager, Race to Zero Breakthroughs 2030: Retail WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development, highlighted the critical nature of the work to be done around decarbonisation given the UN’s suggestion that we are on target for catastrophic change on our planet.

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Return of the original Corporate Knight

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He worried that the world would face some nasty water shortages and sought to put a dent in water pollution through ultrafiltration membranes he developed with Zenon. That drive led him to found the company that topped our first list of the 50 Best Corporate Citizens 20 years ago (Zenon ranked first in 2002 and 2004). Andrew Benedek.

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Jimmy Carter and Southern Company: An Energized Bond

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As Georgia governor, he played an instrumental role in the development of the Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act of 1973, which assigned territories for Georgia Power, co-ops and municipal utilities and established competition for major customers.

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This is New York's first all-electric skyscraper

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In 2002, he invited three other architects to cooperate on a project to transform five vacant lots in East Brooklyn into 10 attractive low-cost homes – demonstrating his profession’s power to lead social change. New York City architect Jared Della Valle began his career buying and redesigning existing buildings. That’s not just hot air.

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ESG is the private equity industry’s next frontier

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In 2015, the United Nations established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a blueprint of 17 ways to make the world a more just, inclusive and sustainable place. and 4 percentage points a year, respectively, between 2002 and 2020. Research by BlackRock shows that PE outperformed the S&P 500 and MSCI World indexes by 2.8

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