Day: 13 January 2021

The Arbor Day Foundation’s Energy-Saving Trees Aim to Reduce Energy Consumption

Stuart Mitchell

The Arbor Day Foundation’s Energy-Saving Trees and Community Canopy programs are designed to help utility companies, municipalities, and corporate organizations distribute trees to their communities. The core purpose is to lower energy bills, improve air quality, sequester carbon, and manage stormwater runoff. Central to the program is an interactive online tool that was created through a Foundation partnership by The Davey Institute, a division of The Davey Tree Expert Co. The tool uses peer- reviewed scientific research from the U.S. Forest Service’s i-Tree software to calculate estimated energy savings over…

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Waters’ 2020 Sustainability Report Highlights Continued Progress of Its Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives

Stuart Mitchell

Waters Corporation has released its 2020 Sustainability Report, highlighting achievements and progress of the company’s sustainable operations, projects and initiatives. Waters’ latest sustainability report covers activities from 2019 and key highlights from 2020. In addition, the report tracks the important progress of Waters’ 2025 sustainability goals set forth in late 2019. “Our team is demonstrating that through our collective actions we can make meaningful impacts, even during the most challenging periods in our history,” said Dr. Udit Batra, Waters President and CEO. “From investing in STEM education, to reimagining recyclable…

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Aflac Incorporated Announces $25 Million Commitment to Invest in LISC’s Black Economic Development Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Aflac Incorporated have announced its $25 million commitment to invest in the Black Economic Development Fund introduced by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). The Black Economic Development Fund (the “Fund”) is a mission-oriented investment fund with the primary objective of supporting Black-led financial institutions, anchor institutions and business transactions to strengthen the Black community in rural and urban communities. The ultimate goal is to help close the racial wealth gap. The Fund expects to begin initial deployment of capital in the first quarter of 2021, taking an industry-agnostic approach…

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Keysight and ElringKlinger AG Collaborate to Advance E-mobility

Stuart Mitchell

Keysight Technologies, Inc., a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, and ElringKlinger, one of the world’s leading technological partner to the automotive industry, have collaborated to advance e-mobility in the field of battery development for electric vehicles. ElringKlinger offers innovative solutions for all types of automotive drive systems and is a volume manufacturer for battery components for almost a decade now. In order to further accelerate the development of batteries and to deliver highly efficient and reliable battery…

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Stanley Black & Decker Signs the Renewable Thermal Collaborative’s Buyers’ Statement

Stuart Mitchell

Stanley Black & Decker is the latest organization to sign on to the Renewable Thermal Collaborative’s (RTC) Buyers’ Statement, furthering their commitment to renewable thermal energy use and continued efforts to lower overall greenhouse gas emissions. By becoming a signatory, Stanley Black & Decker will be joining a coalition of 21 other global organizations, including Cargill, Procter & Gamble, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, and L’Oréal USA, who have committed to expanding the renewable thermal energy market. Stanley Black & Decker, who also became an RTC member this year, has ambitious climate…

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