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Dow drives innovations that help address many of the world's most challenging problems including the need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven, industry-leading portfolio delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 180 countries.
Reuse & Repurpose: Innovation will Unlock the Solution to Plastic Waste
3 days ago - Innovative solutions to reduce plastic waste come in all shapes and sizes — but how do we combat the issue without taking plastic products away from those who need them most for everyday living?
Dow Sustainability Report Details Progress on 2025 Goals, Action to Combat Ocean Waste
1 month ago - Dow released its 2018 Sustainability Report, which shares its progress against its 2025 Sustainability Goals and demonstrates its commitment to collaborate with value chain partners and other stakeholders to find more sustainable ways to do business.
Dow and USGBC Launch Carbon Challenge to Encourage Reductions in Buildings’ Operational Carbon Footprint
1 month ago - Dow and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced today a Carbon Challenge that looks to address the increasing built environment growth by encouraging reductions in the operational carbon footprint of buildings.
Coalition of CEOs Calls on Congress to Enact Market-Based Climate Strategy
1 month ago - The CEOs of 13 US and Global Fortune 500 companies, in collaboration with four leading environmental groups, have issued a call for action on climate change — including an economy-wide carbon pricing policy to meet the climate challenge at the lowest possible cost.
Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs are Transforming Global Brands
3 months ago - Science and technology are just two of the many driving forces behind the environmental and social innovation needed to protect our planet and improve the lives of individuals.
Global Panel of Judges for 2019 Packaging Innovation Awards Brings Diverse Expertise, Perspectives to Program
3 months ago - Leaders from around the world and representing many facets of the packaging industry make up the independent panel of judges for Dow’s 2019 Packaging Innovation Awards.
Dow Tackles Plastic Pollution While Helping to Create Jobs in South Africa
4 months ago - Supporting the ‘Wastepreneurs’, program and generating awareness around the collection and exchange of recyclable waste
Trending: Collaborations Continue to Fuel Solutions to Plastic Pollution
4 months ago - These days, we can’t go a week without the launch of another initiative, innovation or collaboration aimed at eradicating plastic waste around the world – which means we may actually have a fighting chance at doing it.
Dow Receives National Institute of Building Sciences Award for Low-Carbon Legacy Collaboration with the Olympic Movement
5 months ago - The award-winning Carbon Partnership between Dow and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) utilizes sport and science to inspire adoption of low-carbon solutions for the built environment.
Call for Entries Now Open for the 2019 Packaging Innovation Awards by Dow
5 months ago - The Packaging Innovation Awards by Dow unites an international team of independent judges to recognize some of the world’s most innovative packaging breakthroughs in the areas of technology, customer experience and responsible packaging
Global Alliance Commits Over $1B to End Plastic Waste
6 months ago - The global plastics value chain has banded together to advance solutions to plastic waste in the environment.
JUST Capital, Forbes Name America's Most JUST Companies for 2018
7 months ago - JUST Capital and Forbes today released the 2018 list of America’s Most JUST Companies, an annual ranking of the 1,000 largest publicly traded US corporations on the issues Americans care about most, including fair pay and good benefits, customer treatment and privacy, beneficial products, environmental impact, job creation, and community support in the US and abroad, as well as ethical leadership and long-term financial growth.
Dow Wins Six Prestigious 2018 R&D 100 Awards from R&D Magazine
8 months ago - Six innovative technologies from Dow, the world’s leading materials science company, were recognized with R&D 100 awards on November 16, 2018. The R&D 100 Awards, a signature program of R&D Magazine, is designed to identify and celebrate the top 100 revolutionary technologies introduced during the past year.
Future Value, Submerged Value, 'ROP' & Other Facets of the ROI of Sustainability
8 months ago - Last week at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’18 conference in Philadelphia, PA, over 300 delegates from brands, NGOs, strategists and practitioners across sectors gathered to share the newest credible tools and solutions for assessing the ROI of Sustainable Business.
Righting Wrong Metrics: Lessons on Future-Fitness and Fixing Materiality
8 months ago - This week at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’18 conference in Philadelphia, PA, over 300 delegates from brands, NGOs, strategists and practitioners across sectors gathered to share their latest tools and findings regarding measuring the risks and impacts of previously unmeasured forms of value, the newest credible tools and solutions for assessing the ROI of Sustainable Business.
Some Stories Are Worth Telling: The Legacy of the Michigan Source Reduction Initiative
8 months ago - Sometimes a great notion matters. Sometimes a great notion matters a huge amount. In this case, the great notion was the Michigan Source Reduction Initiative (MSRI). Few people remember MSRI, but its legacy lives on. MSRI was the catalyst that launched The Dow Chemical Company into a collaborative approach in helping the world achieve sustainable development. It also ushered in a wave of new and unique company-NGO collaborations that helped accelerate progress and set new standards for these relationships. It is hard to imagine the great collaborations of more recent years (e.g., US Climate Action Partnership formed in 2006) happening without that catalyst of MSRI.
Experts Gather to Discuss ROI of Sustainable Business at New Metrics '18
8 months ago - SAN FRANCISCO, October 29, 2018 — The Sustainable Brands® community gathers today in Philadelphia, PA to kick off the 8th annual New Metrics conference.
Dow, Keep America Beautiful to Award Up to Another $100,000 in Hefty® EnergyBag® Grants in 2019
8 months ago - The Dow Chemical Company is again teaming up with na
Dow Launches #PullingOurWeight Cleanup Campaign at More Than 50 Locations Worldwide
9 months ago - Employees, families, friends and customers of The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) are collaborating with local organizations across the world and Ocean Conservancy to take part in beach and waterway cleanups at more than 50 locations across the globe to bring attention to the issue of ocean plastic pollution.
Dow Names Commercial Leaders to Address Global Recycling Challenges
9 months ago - Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, today announced the creation of two new senior leadership roles charged with addressing global plastics recycling and waste management challenges. Tim Boven, previously Dow’s global integrated supply chain director for Hydrocarbons, is the new recycling commercial director for Latin America and North America. Carsten Larsen, formerly Dow Industrial Solutions’ commercial director for Europe, Middle East, Africa and India, will serve as recycling commercial director for EMEA & APAC.