Sustainability

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2006--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that 15 of its employees have been selected to assist in scientific field research studies around the world with leading environmental scientists from Earthwatch Institute, the global voluntee...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2006--The introduction of biopolymers, combined with a growing infrastructure for composting them, may reduce the estimated 94 percent(a) of all plastic consumer products that currently end up in local disposal facilities in th...

BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2006--Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL), a leading provider of products and services that improve productivity in the laboratory and in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced it has been added to KLD's Domini 400 So...

CLEVELAND, - The City Club of Cleveland and sponsor, KeyBank, kickoff the 2006 KeyBank Diversity Thought Leadership Series on Friday, March 24. Featured speaker Tex G. Hall, former chairman, National Congress of American Indians, leads off this second annual series en...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2006--The Hilton Family of Hotels announced today that it has made it even easier for members of its highly popular guest reward program, Hilton HHonors(R), to convert their HHonors points and contribute to a variety of...

PORTLAND - IW Financial, a leading provider of research- based technology solutions that enable investment professionals to analyze portfolio holdings based on governance and social criteria, has named Mark Bateman as director of research, it was announced today.

SANTA FE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2006--The law presumes that a company's management and affiliates, i.e., the "insiders," always know more about the company than the man-on-the-street. This is not always the case in a global economy. A publicly traded company...

Business Wire, PRSA San Diego Chapter and CSRwire to Co-Host Media Conference, "Communicating Your Company's Values: How Corporate Social Responsibility Impacts the Bottom Line."

When: Monday, February 27, 2006
11:3...

Business Wire and CSRwire to Co-Host Breakfast Media Conference, "Meet the Media and Business Wire 101"

When: Tuesday, February 28, 2006
7:30 a.m.-8:00 a.m. - Registration and Networking for Business Wire 101
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A new sense of urgency and confidence is sweeping the professional community engaged in corporate responsibility work, leading to greater attention on how the root causes of poverty and environmental change can be tackled collectively. This is the assertion of "Servin...