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A team of volunteers from Microsoft and Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy recently worked on a project to install deer enclosure fences at JK Black Oak Wildlife Sanctuary in Lucketts.
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A perennial concern of corporate sustainability professionals how to nurture employee buy-in for the organization’s programs and strategy easily could have been sidelined during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies everywhere shifted to accommodate remote workforces.
But heightened awareness about environmental and social issues over the past year has made these initiatives more timely than ever. Leading companies, including tech firms Microsoft and Akamai, are expanding their focus into new realms ones that explore the intersection of sustainability and human health, or that allow employees to take action to reduce their own impact at home and in the communities where they live.
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Holly Beale and Drew Wilkinson saw the need for an employee community dedicated to environmental sustainability. So they created one now with thousands of members around the world. Copy Link To Page
Coming to Microsoft from the nonprofit sector, I immediately saw that we could be doing way more around environmental sustainability. I saw employees talking about it but not a lot of solutions.
That’s when my coworker Holly and I started a group for employees who are interested in Earth, too. In under a year, we’ve had 3,500 people from all over the world join. Our motto is to be action-focused and urgent. We’ve done lots of different projects, from piloting a zero-waste café for employees to working with a nonprofit that cleans up the ocean by using data recognition.
Episode 249: 30 Under 30 honorees share revelations, big oil pivots Heather Clancy Fri, 12/18/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (3:45). Can Shell pilot a new era of sustainable aviation? The oil and gas industry’s search for purpose in a climate-disrupted world Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice? BofA, BlackRock and State Street talk stakeholder primacy and fall short Features The road ahead for sustainable transportation (21:40) Katie Fehrenbacher, senior writer and transportation analyst for GreenBiz, reflects 10 key trends from 2020 that will or should shape priorities in the 12 months ahead. Among them: bridge fuels to zero-emissions fleets; the public transit crisis; and what policies are mapping the journey. Year-end reflections from the GreenBiz 30 Under 30 (34:35) As we did at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, we feature the voices of our vibrant community in this episode and on Jan. 8. Participants con