Playboy features first transgender playmate
Playboy Magazine is making history next month. Lakshmi Singh talks to French model Ines Rau, the first transgender woman to appear in Playboy magazine’s coveted centerfold spot.
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1400 companies now put an internal price on carbon
That number is an impressive leap, as it amounts to an eight-fold increase from 2014.
Google to give $1 billion to nonprofits and help Americans get jobs in the new economy
Google will make grants in its three core areas: education, economic opportunity and inclusion. Already in the last few months, it has handed out $100 million of the $1 billion to nonprofits.
38% of Fortune 50 companies now publicly support the Sustainable Development Goals
An impressive 38 percent of the F50 have made a public commitment to support the SDGs.
EasyJet puts its weight behind plans for electric planes
EasyJet is backing plans to develop commercial passenger aircraft powered by electric batteries instead of conventional aero engines.
Facebook selects 100% renewable energy option for headquarters
Facebook has switched all electric accounts at its Menlo Park headquarters to Peninsula Clean Energy’s ECO100 option
Target to raise its minimum wage to $11 per hour, promising $15 by 2020
Thousands of Target employees are about to get a raise.
Jaguar Land Rover will only make electric or hybrid vehicles starting in 2020
British luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover is the latest company pledging to stop production of internal combustion cars.
Mars counters Trump’s climate stance with $1bn sustainability plan
Confectionery firm also launches M&Ms renewable energy campaign as part of a growing corporate backlash against the U.S.’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate deal.
Google to create 10 million African jobs by 2022
Google is continuing in its aim to create 10 million African jobs in the next five years by training 100,000 software developers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.