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02-25-14
Apple, San Diego International Airport, SolarCity and Sapphire Energy Join Call for U.S. Action on Climate Change
As California battles the worst drought in centuries, more than a dozen major businesses, including Apple Inc. (APPL), SolarCity (SCTY), San Diego International Airport, Sungevity and Sapphire Energy today joined...
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02-25-14
Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Launches in Atlanta
As part of its eighth-annual conference in Atlanta this week, the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council launched a new name and brand – transitioning to become the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum. The rebranding reflects major changes in the peer-to-peer fundraising industry, which has experienced an...
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02-25-14
DLA Piper Foundation Partners with Global Communities to Rebuild Livelihoods in Areas Struck by Typhoon in Philippines
The DLA Piper Foundation has donated $43,369 to Global Communities to assist recovery efforts in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The typhoon struck on November 8, 2013, and caused widespread destruction, damaging more than 1 million homes and affecting 14 million people.
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02-25-14
US Synthetic Bearings' Hydropowered Humanitarian Effort Lights Up Remote Village in Nepal
US Synthetic Corporation, a Dover Company (NYSE: DOV) and the leading provider of polycrystalline diamond products for the energy industry, anno...
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02-25-14
New Partnership Addresses Climate Risk in Supply Chain
Four Twenty Seven, a climate consultancy based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has partnered with supply chain assessment experts from Climate Earth, Inc., to develop an enterprise-quality application enabling large corporations to quickly map and quantify global supply chain risks due to climate ...
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02-25-14
"The Courage to Dare" - Zermatt Summit June 2014
The Zermatt Summit Foundation and its members have decided on “The Courage to Dare” as the theme of the fifth Zermatt Summit. As globalisation starts to show its limits and downsides, certain leaders have decided to turn a new page in their own environments.
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02-25-14
Motorola Solutions Foundation to Provide Grants for Science and Engineering Education
The Motorola Solutions Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI), today announced that it will again provide funding to science, ...
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02-25-14
SASB Releases Provisional Sustainability Accounting Standards for Financials Industries, Second Set of Standards Issued for Use by Companies and Investors
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board™ (SASB)™, a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides sustainability accounting standards for use by publicly listed corporations in the U.S., today released
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02-25-14
Katerva Award Category and Finalists Announced
Katerva is proud to announce the 2013 Katerva Awards finalists as well as the category winners. Referred to as “the Nobel Prize of Sustainability,” the awards feature the world’s best ideas you have never heard of – yet.
The 2013 Katerva Award Finalists and Category Award Winners are:
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02-24-14
A Critical Discussion: Our Shared Future with China
China’s 12th Five-Year Plan and other government policies have set ambitious targets for greener growth and greater social stability in rural and inland areas. While China has established itself as a world leader in renewable energy development and deployment, the country is now reaching out to o...
