Awards and Rankings

The INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS™, a global programme that recognises innovative and creative approaches to sustainability, is now searching the globe for the true sustainability heroes after establishing its first online global sustainability community and entry platform! Thi...

/PRNewswire/ - Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE: PNY) today announced that its Tennessee Operations Center facility in Nashville, Tennessee has received the coveted "Gold" rating from the United States Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED rating system. The facility, completed i...

/PRNewswire/ - In recognition of our country's military heroes, Sears today announces the winner of the national Heroes at Home "Portraits of Heroes" song contest with country music singer and U.S. M...

Cascades Inc. (TSX: CAS) is proud that it has been selected as the 7th best corporate citizen in Canada by Corporate Knights magazine, which focuses on social responsibility and corporate governance. The magazine publishes annually a short list of the best 50 corporate citiz...

Cleantech Law Partners, a boutique law firm that caters to the unique legal needs of renewable energy project developers and clean technology companies, announced today that it was certified as a B Corporation. B Corporations are a growing worldwide movement of for-­profit ...

/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored Union Pacific Railroad with its Clean Air Excellence Award for developing Genset switching locomotive technology, which significantly surpasses EPA Tier 2 locomotive standards and serves...

Ceres and Tellus Institute, two leading organizations that work with companies, investors and nonprofit groups to embed sustainable practices in capital markets, today announced the launch of an initiative to create and bring to widespread adoption a single standard for rati...

Bill Drayton, CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in International Cooperation today, Spain's highest honor and Nobel equivalent. An international jury deliberated over the 25 finalists from 18 different countries who were unde...

Novo Nordisk's own film production department, FilmSolutions, won two awards at the World Media Festival in Hamburg for a documentary about Novo Nordisk's Changing Diabetes® in Children project in Bangladesh.

The film was produced last year duri...

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - AmeriCares has awarded its annual Power of Partnership Award to AstraZeneca for its outstanding commitment to increasing access to health care for people in need both here at home and throughout the developing world. In the past year alone, the pha...