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Dow combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. 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.
Dow Tackles Plastic Pollution While Helping to Create Jobs in South Africa
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 month 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
2 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
2 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
3 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 months ago - The Dow Chemical Company is again teaming up with na
Dow Launches #PullingOurWeight Cleanup Campaign at More Than 50 Locations Worldwide
5 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
5 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.
Dow Develops Leaders While Addressing World Challenges
6 months ago - The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) sent 43 of its global leaders to Mumbai, India this week to address pressing local challenges related to sustainable housing, environmental cleanup, diversity and inclusion, circular economy, and education and career readiness as part of its sixth-annual Leadership in Action (LIA) program.
Procter & Gamble Earns Top Honors in Dow’s 2018 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation
6 months ago - Today, The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) announced the winners of the 2018 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation, which recognizes the packaging industry’s top achievements in innovative packaging designs, materials, technologies and processes.
DowDuPont Named to FTSE4Good Index Series
6 months ago - DowDuPont™ (NYSE: DWDP) announced today that it was named a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index Series. FTSE4Good was created by the global index provider, FTSE Russell, and is designed to measure the performance of companies demonstrating strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The FTSE4Good indices are used by a wide variety of market participants to create and assess responsible investment funds and other products.
Dow and WE Help Students Innovate with STEM to Build a More Sustainable Future
8 months ago - The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and WE, an organization that makes doing good, doable, are excited to announce the winners of the inaugural WE Are Innovators campaign, challenging youth to tackle today’s daunting issues of food waste, the environment and more by applying chemistry, science and innovation.
Transformational Leadership in Action ... and In Transition
9 months ago - Last week, over 2,000 representatives from our global community of sustainability practitioners, brand strategists, product and service innovators, thought leaders and other change-makers converged at SB’18 Vancouver to share their latest insights on a multitude of themes pertinent to all of those committed to improving business around the world. Here, we dig into a topic at the heart of all lasting change: Transformational leadership.
Dow’s Nature Projects Generated $120M, Engaged 380K Students in 2017
9 months ago - The Dow Chemical Company’s newly released 2017 Sustainability Report details its progress against its goals for 2025, including surpassing the year’s target for savings and revenue from projects that are “better for ecosystems.” Such projects generated $120 million in cost savings and new cash flow in 2017 against the goal to reach $1 billion by 2025.