Month: September 2021

Lenovo Foundation Partners With Solve Education! To Support STEM Education Through Gamification

Stuart Mitchell

Lenovo Foundation, the charitable and philanthropic arm of Lenovo, recently established a global partnership with Solve Education! – a non-profit EdTech organization that aims to provide everyone with access to quality and effective education. Known for its flagship product and educational game, Dawn of Civilization (DoC), a city-building game with multiple subjects and embedded mini-games, Solve Education! seeks to improve the learning experience of students across the world through gamification. Lenovo Foundation’s core focus areas is to advance STEM education, so the opportunity to team up with Solve Education! made complete sense.…

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Principal Financial Group® Issues $600 Million Sustainability Bond

Stuart Mitchell

Principal Financial Group® issued its first sustainability bond on August 16 in the amount of $600 million as part of the company’s commitment to integrating and advancing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices and initiatives in its organization and operations. “Principal® is committed to being sustainable in our actions and solutions, and intentional in how we’re making progress toward our purpose,” said Deanna Strable, executive vice president and chief financial officer for Principal Financial Group. “The issuance of a sustainability bond gives us an additional pathway to stimulate positive change…

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3M Joins Water Resilience Coalition

Stuart Mitchell

3M has announced it is joining the Water Resilience Coalition (WRC), taking one more step forward in the company’s ongoing commitment to help the nearly two billion people worldwide living in water-stressed and water-scarce communities. “3M is proactively applying our science and innovation to improve the water supply used in our operations and the communities we serve,” said Mike Roman, 3M CEO. “We are committed to sharing our expertise on global water solutions, and our participation in the WRC will expand and amplify our efforts.” By joining the WRC leadership…

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O-I Glass Partners with Peru’s Plaza Vea Supermarkets to Make Glass Recycling Easy with #ReciclaConsciente

Stuart Mitchell

Plaza Vea, one of Peru’s largest and most popular supermarket chains, is hoping to make recycling easier for its customers with a new national recycling campaign. The campaign is called #ReciclaConsciente and it’s designed to both educate about recycling in Peru as well as facilitate it. O-I is among the partners. There are two parts to the campaign. The first is a concentration on education. #ReciclaConsciente is communicating with consumers using tactics such as publishing environmental awareness on social media and launching a digital environmental volunteer initiative. In-store messaging reminds shoppers which…

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Methanex Launch 2020 Sustainability Report

Stuart Mitchell

Methanex Corporation, the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol, today released its 2020 Sustainability Report to share its progress on the material environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics of most importance to the company’s business and stakeholders. Methanex has reported on its sustainability performance since 1997 and this year’s report provides greater transparency and comparability by aligning its disclosures with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards and some elements of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). “As a leader in the…

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