Creating Authentic Connections in Virtual Teams

Creating Authentic Connections in Virtual Teams

In an increasingly virtual world, fostering connection and trust within remote teams poses significant challenges, yet offers valuable opportunities. A partnership between Matriarca, an Argentinian sustainable goods distributor, and the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative (WiN) exemplifies the effective use of a scientifically validated exercise known as “Fast Friends” for enhancing online collaboration. In this article, Wharton…

ESCO Relationship Benefits Service Company, Facilities

ESCO Relationship Benefits Service Company, Facilities

  When institutional and commercial facilities enter into an agreement with an energy service company (ESCO), they can take advantage of several opportunities. Those advantages include cost and energy savings on energy consumption from completed audits and system retrofits, improved system operations that improve a district’s sustainability efforts as well as reduce an institution’s carbon…

Using digital and AI to meet the energy sector’s net-zero challenge

Using digital and AI to meet the energy sector’s net-zero challenge

The success of clean energy from wind, solar, and other low-emission sources is vital for the global energy system to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. While renewable energy has outperformed nearly all expectations in the past decade, many challenges loom large, including a scarcity of supply chain materials, limited availability of suitable land, lack of…

The future of sustainability: 4 fast-emerging trends

The future of sustainability: 4 fast-emerging trends

  Every July, a portal into the future opens. The near future. Say, one to three years out. During this time of year, we look into that near-future-portal — the database of more than 500 proposed speakers to our February GreenBiz conference — and patterns, distinct from prior years, emerge. We see what the corporate…

New OSHA Program Targets Workplace Hazards in Warehouses, Distribution Centers

New OSHA Program Targets Workplace Hazards in Warehouses, Distribution Centers

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched a national emphasis program to prevent workplace hazards in warehouses, processing facilities, distribution centers, and high-risk retail establishments. In the past 10 years, warehousing and distribution centers have experienced tremendous growth with more than 1.9 million people employed in the industry. The Bureau of Labor…