General Electric (GE), May 13, 2013
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) SUMMARY:Four GE employees recognized with the prestigious Phillippe Award for outstanding community service 13 Impact Awards given to GE Volunteers Councils for exemplary community projects GE Aviation’s David L. Joyce h...
General Electric (GE), March 29, 2013
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:Wind energy is the fastest-growing source of electricity production globally, and in the U.S., Texas ranks No. 1 for wind energy capacity. If Texas were a country, it would be sixth in the world. Presently, Tex...
General Electric (GE), March 25, 2013
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:Underground aquifers deep beneath the Sahara desert in Algeria hold huge amounts of fresh water. But as recently as five years ago, many Algerians in the nation’s capital could not count on filling up their t...
General Electric (GE), March 01, 2013
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:Water barrels and storage tanks had for years dominated roofs in the Casbah and other neighborhoods spread over the crescent of hills ringing the Algerian capital and the blue half-moon of Bay of Algiers. “Th...
General Electric (GE), March 01, 2013
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:Water barrels and storage tanks had for years dominated roofs in the Casbah and other neighborhoods spread over the crescent of hills ringing the Algerian capital and the blue half-moon of Bay of Algiers. “Th...
General Electric (GE), February 25, 2013
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:When Australia got whiplashed by extreme weather in January, rivers swelled by a cyclone flooded Queensland in the north, while the Victoria province in the south remained arid and gritted through a wave of sev...
General Electric (GE), January 24, 2013
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:GE has been named to the Global 100, a ranking of the most sustainable corporations in the world. The award, announced this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is based on 12 key performan...
General Electric (GE), January 24, 2013
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:GE has asked the members of its Citizenship Advisory Panel to reflect on trends and key challenges for sustainable development in 2013. This first post by Nick Robins tackles the gap between climate change risk...
General Electric (GE), January 15, 2013
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:First the good news. Carbon dioxide emissions from coal have been falling over the last five years in the U.S., hitting the lowest point for any quarter since 1986 in March 2012. Cheap natural gas allowed utili...
General Electric (GE), January 10, 2013
SOURCE: General Electric (GE) DESCRIPTION:Early last summer, Sister Mary Ethel Parrot dropped by the office of WaterStep, a Louisville charity fighting waterborne disease around the world, and picked up a pair of tote bags filled with tubing, clamps an...
GE’s 2012 online report highlights progress against commitments on our social, environmental and economic impacts—or, what we call People, Planet and Economy.
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