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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

In 2007, Benedek left his academic job and founded Anaergia, which converts organic food waste into biofuels, such as renewable natural gas. 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). Is it the Ideal Corporate Citizen?

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What we can learn from Mexico's struggle to ban a potent pesticide

Corporate Knights

Monsanto, a major glyphosate exporter, has been shown to have influenced academic research to downplay the health risks of its valuable product. Then, in 2004, the family transitioned one hectare to organic production as an experiment. That farm used to produce conventional oranges.

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Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Present Educators and Students Engaging Resources to Support Cybersecurity Awareness Month Observances

3BL Media

Established in 2004 by Congress, Cybersecurity Awareness Month seeks to raise awareness about cybersecurity and online safety. DESCRIPTION: CHARLOTTE, N.C., Discovery Education is the worldwide EdTech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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STEM Leader Marlene Watson Receives the 2023 AISES Ely S. Parker Award

3BL Media

Her record of academic achievement is impressive.

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Here's the secret to cooling India’s buildings

Corporate Knights

LEED buildings still heat-trapping A second, more climate-conscious wave of corporate offices began with India’s first LEED-certified building in 2004, with a green roof, biological water-treatment ponds and solar panels. R icha Narvekar is an independent academic and architectural designer based out of Toronto and Goa, India.

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Cisco Networking Academy celebrates 25 years of impact

Cisco CSR

Together with our partners in government, academic institutions, and non-profits around the world, we strive to reach underserved and underrepresented people who might not otherwise have access to life-changing educational pathways. In 2004, Hamid Hajar described himself as “desperate and hopeless”. Hamid Hajar. He was hooked!

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Major role for wastewater epidemiology in tackling Covid-19, says group

Envirotec Magazine

A preprint (not yet peer-reviewed) academic paper identifies the presence of the virus in two separate samples taken in state capital Florianópolis on 27 November 2019 – two-and-a-half months before the first case was reported in the area – and in subsequent samples up until March 2020. The videos can be found at: [link].