Reinventing Infrastructure With Digital Efficiency

Digital efficiency is a critical differentiator enabling competitiveness and growth in companies and countries. The industrial internet enables efficiency improvements that yield economic gains and environmental benefits beyond the traditional development and introduction of new technology. Leaders from GE, Intel and MWH will share insights and global examples of how embracing digital efficiency has returned costs savings, reduced emissions, and created greater productivity within their own operations and for their customers.

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Reinventing Infrastructure With Digital Efficiency

Can One Highway Drive the Future?

The visionary team behind The Ray tells the story behind their revolutionary stretch of IT-embedded roadway in Georgia, “the world’s first sustainable highway,” and the many innovations and possibilities created on the journey to transform our transportation infrastructure.

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Can One Highway Drive the Future?

Why Toyota thinks blockchain could enable self-driving cars

The technology could make it easier for companies and communities to analyze the huge amounts of data expected from sensors in cars, roads and other new transport devices.

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Why Toyota thinks blockchain could enable self-driving cars

Understanding consumers’ four zones of responsibility

Consumers think about sustainable companies and their products through multiple lenses. Do you?

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Understanding consumers’ four zones of responsibility

3 signs of progress in curbing the illegal wood trade

As illegal logging rates decline, companies and cities are stepping up to control their supply chains and use only legally sourced wood.

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3 signs of progress in curbing the illegal wood trade

How companies and weather may sway public opinion on climate

Erratic weather can raise the public's view on climate change, but leading firms also should promote the business benefits of putting a price on carbon.

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How companies and weather may sway public opinion on climate

Why companies and investors see the risks in climate

An adaptation from a new book, "A Newer World," on the policy, politics, science and economics of environmental protection, sustainability, energy and climate change.

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Why companies and investors see the risks in climate

Developing the sustainable policy-sustainable business connection

One of the benefits of a sustainability perspective is it encourages looking for connections between spheres assumed to have little to do with each other. How does that apply to business and policy?

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Developing the sustainable policy-sustainable business connection

NAEM EHS Management Forum

Now in its 20th year, NAEM’s EHS Management Forum is the largest annual gathering for environment, health and safety (EHS) and sustainability decision-makers. Come share best practices with peers from leading-edge companies and learn actionable strategies you can use to drive change in your organization.

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NAEM EHS Management Forum

4 keys to success for partnering with NGOs

Can companies and nonprofits play well together? How to avoid misunderstandings and other obstacles.

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4 keys to success for partnering with NGOs

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