I hate to garden. I am the type of person who would rather sit at my desk on a sunny summer day than plant seeds, pull weeds, or harvest anything. So it will surprise those who know me best that I just finished a ‘20-year’ stint as the Director of Forestry in Uruguay, on a team that launched a successful bio-products ‘business’ on the Rio Negro River outside of the city of Mercedes, and I loved every minute of it.
Those ‘20 years’ went by in a flash—it seemed like a mere two months. Eight weeks, in fact.
That’s how long it takes to earn a certificate for Leading Sustainable Innovation, a completely virtual, albeit intense and rigorous, new program offered by the University of Vermont (UVM), home to one of the top “green” MBA programs in the world.
Africa is brimming with potential, and the private sector is embracing its role as a partner with the social and public sectors for collective prosperity, ushering in a new ethos for global development. https://bit.ly/2HJdnD0 #Partnership #SDGs #CSR @PYXERAGlobal
Pro bono consultants from SAP teamed up with The Inclusion Factory, a Shanghai-based industrial workshop that is proving the employment potential of people with constrained physical and intellectual capabilities.
We’ve reached a pivotal point where 75% of North Americans now cite “my employer” as the most trusted institution, by a large margin. This uniquely positions businesses to become not just a force for good, but the force for good. Find out how 12 leading companies are walking the walk.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, there would be a 20-30 percent estimated yield increase if women farmers had the same access to resources as men. It's a powerful statistic that underscores the global issue of gender inequality, highlighting the integral role – and extraordinary potential – of women in agriculture.
What happens when you get 85+ coders, 60+ volunteers and mentors, and a plethora of industry specialists together for one targeted effort to combat the world’s biggest challenges? Booz Allen Hamilton’s Charleston Digital Hub and Charleston Open Source wanted to find out - and so on February 23, 2019, they assembled a group for the Charleston Digital Hub Hackathon, an intense, one-day coding sprint that challenged participants to create open-source solutions to tackle one of four United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Skytop Strategies will launch its ESG5 Summit on April 4th in New York. CSRHub Co-founder and CTO Bahar Gidwani will be speaking on Materiality: Aligning Materiality to Your Company’s Business Model.
PYXERA Global is excited to announce our participation in the What Works 2019 conference on April 1–3 in Reykjavik, Iceland. First held in 2016, the What Works global summit is the premier forum for debating solutions that will accelerate social progress around the world.
Global Reporting Initiative are delighted that we can now offer the latest GRI Standards in Spanish. Organizations who report in Spanish can download GRI 303: Agua y efluentes 2018 and GRI 403: Salud y seguridad en el trabajo 2018 on the GRI website.
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