Renew Economy
AUGUST 15, 2024
AEMO updates roadmap to solve engineering challenges to allow it the grid to run for periods on renewables only, with no burning of fossil fuels. The post Australia lays ground for reaching 100 pct renewables with new engineering roadmap appeared first on RenewEconomy.
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
CASE Construction Equipment, a CNH brand, launched a new line of compact crawler tractors with 100% Brazilian production. After investments of R$ 50 million announced last year, the Contagem plant, in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, received improvements to become the World Production Hub for the brand's line of crawler tractors, covering six models from 6 to 22 tons.
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Renew Economy
AUGUST 15, 2024
The solar farm was approved in 2019 when Neoen owned it and is now expected to be finished in 2026. Neighbours will get rebates on their bills. The post Shovels ready as Engie reaches financial close on 250MW solar farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
Carter’s BBQ hosts a Father’s Day fundraiser for foster youth. Gray Brush unlocks new opportunities for their business within the rental market. And both businesses unveil something big online and attend ECDI’s small business course graduation. Brought to you by GoDaddy. Originally published on GoDaddy Resources Previously on Made in America: Ohio … Darren W.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Renew Economy
AUGUST 15, 2024
Major sources of an environmentally damaging gas will be scrutinised from above when a group of climate experts launches a satellite with SpaceX. The post Climate group creates satellite to track methane “super emitters” from space appeared first on RenewEconomy.
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
Gildan is proud to announce the renewal of its partnership with the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston to support the Aquarium’s mission of inspiring the conservation of the natural world. Gildan is increasing its contribution from the prior year and will be donating USD $25,000, which will support the Aquarium’s robust slate of education programming.
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3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
Owens Corning's Toledo-based interns took part in our annual Intern Volunteer Day, giving back to our community with dedication and heart. Partnering with several local charities, they demonstrated what it means to be caring, committed, curious, and collaborative. We are proud of their efforts and the positive impact they have made!
Renew Economy
AUGUST 15, 2024
New rules seek to help consumers get more out of their energy assets – but miss a major opportunity to boost competition in the retail sector. The post New rules change game for EVs and home batteries, but won’t give power to the people appeared first on RenewEconomy.
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
Previously published by TriplePundit By Gary E. Frank Even after serving in the United States Marine Corps for 20 years, Nick Hamm still answers the call of duty. The call he answers today is not to take arms, but instead to help fellow veterans readjust to civilian life after experiencing combat. Hamm founded the Warrior Built Foundation , a nonprofit based in Lake Elsinore, California, that provides combat veterans with vocational training, recreational therapy and mental health services.
Renew Economy
AUGUST 15, 2024
Terrain Solar says it is handing over development of the Marulan solar farm and big battery project. The post Marulan solar and two-hour big battery heads on towards construction appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
As summer heats up and sports fans around the globe turn their attention to exciting events like the US Open, a new wave of technology is emerging on the court. Recent research by IBM and Morning Consult found that more than half (55%) of young tennis fans are optimistic about the positive impact of AI on sports. This growing enthusiasm highlights a key lesson for today’s students and young learners: understanding AI is becoming increasingly important as AI continues to shape the future of work
Renew Economy
AUGUST 15, 2024
VicGrid CEO Alastair Parker has a job some would not envy, managing the planning of transmission lines and renewable zones in the state of Victoria. He joins the podcast to talk about transmission routes, battery storage, the option of going underground, and where things went wrong on social licence. The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Managing the trauma of grid expansion appeared first on RenewEconomy.
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
In the ever-evolving corporate responsibility landscape, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) represents an advantageous opportunity for businesses. Initiated by the European Union, the CSRD goes beyond mere legal compliance. The structured framework offers businesses the chance to transform their business strategy by encouraging transparency, accountability, and long-term viability.
McKinsey Sustainabilty
AUGUST 15, 2024
While AI and generative AI may enable a new age of productivity, redesigning end-to-end processes and using traditional optimization methods can lay the foundation for transformation.
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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC) and its midstream affiliate MPLX LP (NYSE: MPLX) have published two joint reports that provide details on the companies’ efforts to advance their sustainability as the energy industry continues to evolve. The companies’ Sustainability Report and Perspectives on Climate-Related Scenarios report highlight MPC’s and MPLX’s recent accomplishments and progress in strengthening their resilience, innovating for the future, embedding sustainability in their dec
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
AUGUST 15, 2024
A new study found in adult power loom weavers, chronic noise exposure not only increased their blood pressure overall, but also each year of exposure increased their odds of having high blood pressure by 10%.
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
In May, Cisco ThousandEyes hosted its third annual Partner Connection – an event dedicated to sharing ideas, creating connections, and engaging with our channel partners. This year, in the spirit of collaboration, ThousandEyes partnered with Cisco’s Partnering for Purpose team to incorporate a meaningful giveback element into the agenda. Seeking the most impactful way to collaborate with our channel partners, we engaged the expertise of a third-party social impact event supplier, Give to Get.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
AUGUST 15, 2024
Europe's abandoned farmlands could find new life through rewilding, a movement to restore ravaged landscapes to their wilderness before human intervention. A quarter of the European continent, 117 million hectares, is primed with rewilding opportunities, researchers report.
Speaker: Hortense Grouvel
In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
Originally published on Aflac Newsroom 134 hours. Dozens of colleagues. One meaningful, shared purpose. Over the past six months, teams of Aflac employees have volunteered at Feeding the Valley Food Bank, part of the Feeding America network, to help provide nearly 45,000 meals for children and adults living with food insecurity in the Chattahoochee Valley in Georgia and Alabama — over 53,800 pounds of food so far this year.
Stanford Social Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2024
By SSIR Editors To make progress on complex societal challenges, we need good leadership. But to develop innovative solutions—and to implement these solutions at the scale of the problems—we also need to reimagine what good leadership means. Over the last two decades, Stanford Social Innovation Review has approached the topic of leadership from both angles: leadership is essential to transforming the systems that give rise to and reproduce social problems, but we also need to transform “leadersh
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
Taco Bell Blog Taco Bell International is home to over 1,100 restaurants in 31 countries outside the US. From building the brand in new markets, to disrupting the food industry with culturally relevant innovations, our international teams embody the Restless Creativity spirit in their efforts of taking the Taco Bell magic worldwide. As we head into what we’re calling “The Summer of International”, we’ll be sharing their personal journeys, exciting adventures overseas, and career growth stories t
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
AUGUST 15, 2024
As global warming intensifies, people increasingly suffer from extreme heat. For those working in a high-temperature environment indoors or outdoors, keeping thermally comfortable becomes particularly crucial. A team has now developed thermally-insulated and breathable soft robotic clothing that can automatically adapt to changing ambient temperatures, thereby helping to ensure worker safety in hot environments.
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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
EMERYVILLE, Calif., August 15, 2024 /3BL/ - SCS Standards is pleased to announce that version 4.0 of the SCS-110 Certification Standard for Zero Waste is now available for public review. The Standard was first introduced in 2022 as a series of three zero waste standards for facilities, events and projects that are now being consolidated into one. The SCS Zero Waste Standard provides a basis for certifying the diversion of municipal solid waste from landfill and incineration (without energy recov
ESG Today
AUGUST 15, 2024
Automotive giant GM announced today that it has signed a 15-year renewable energy purchase agreement with NorthStar Clean Energy, a unit of CMS Energy, to fuel three GM assembly plants. The announcement marks GM’s largest power purchase deal yet and an important milestone in the company’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2040, according to the company.
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
Published by Las Vegas Sands on July 29, 2024 When Sands set out to design its new corporate headquarters in Las Vegas, one key priority guided its development philosophy: to create a campus representative of the company’s long-standing commitment to environmental sustainability. That goal has been recognized through the designation of the campus with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification for Building Design and Construction from the U.S.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
AUGUST 15, 2024
A biologist studies blind cavefish, a species of fish that dwell in cave ponds in Mexico. He looked at the timeline for when the cavefish develop additional taste buds on the head and chin, finding the taste bud expansion starts at five months and continues into adulthood.
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Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
Cummins Cummins Inc. has a long history of setting ambitious sustainability goals and leading our industry in those efforts. We have worked diligently to align business and sustainability strategies to achieve the company’s mission of making people’s lives better by powering a more prosperous world. Our work impacts our customers, the communities we serve and the planet.
ESG Today
AUGUST 15, 2024
The World Bank announced that it has priced a $225 million bond, with financial returns to investors linked to the generation of carbon removal units (CRUs) from reforestation projects in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The transaction marks the first bond to link financial returns to the removal of carbon from the atmosphere – compared with prior bonds tied to carbon credits from avoided emissions – as well as the World Bank’s largest-ever outcome bond.
3BL Media
AUGUST 15, 2024
Across North America, women at Saint-Gobain take the lead in Making The World A Better Home. They are manufacturers, innovators, scientists, engineers, and executives, all playing a vital role in shaping our industry. For Sarah Ertmer, being a woman in manufacturing means challenging yourself, which makes you a better leader. She makes an impact as a process engineer for Saint-Gobain Life Sciences in Wisconsin.
ESG Today
AUGUST 15, 2024
Power producer RWE announced it has signed two, long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) with Meta from two solar farms under construction in the U.S., providing renewable energy for Meta’s operations including data centers and offices. Onsite construction is underway on RWE’s 274-megawatt (MWac) County Run Solar project in Illinois and on its 100 (MWac) Lafitte Solar project in Louisiana, with commissioning planned for both sites in late 2025.
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In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.
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