Month: August 2024

CHARLOTTE, N.C., August 22, 2024 /3BL/ – Discovery Education today announced a new curated collection of free dynamic digital resources that encourages students to follow their curiosity and explore the natural world. These resources are made available to all students, teachers, and caregivers in the United States at no cost through the Environmental Education Initiative. Powered by worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education, the Environmental Education Initiative is a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to empower students to make informed decisions that support healthy environments and civic engagement.

The Environmental Education Initiative empowers learners with standards-aligned resources to explore contemporary topics in environmental studies. The newest content includes video lesson bundles and student activities exploring subjects such as energy conservation, forestry, clean drinking water, and more.

The resources from the Environmental Education Initiative are created with The National Environmental Education Foundation and other partners including Honeywell, LyondellBasell, Nucor, and Subaru of America, Inc. Each partner provides expertise, insight, and access to enable the creation of high-quality and standards-aligned dynamic digital resources and will help provide under-resourced schools across the United States no-cost access to the award-winning Discovery Education Experience learning platform.

“Experts at Stanford University carefully reviewed a body of academic literature over a 20-year period that measured the impacts of environmental education for K-12 students,” said Amy Nakamoto, Executive Vice President of Corporate Partnerships. “Among the benefits of environmental education were improved academic performance, enhanced critical thinking skills, improved life-building skills, and greater confidence, autonomy, and leadership. We are proud to work alongside our partners to help engage students in the world around them and build these essential skills.”

To access Environmental Education Initiative resources, visit environmentaleducationinitiative.discoveryeducation.com. Educators with access to Discovery Education Experience can find these resources on the Environmental Education Initiative Channel.

For more information about Discovery Education’s award-winning digital resources and professional learning solutions visit www.discoveryeducation.com, and stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

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About Discovery Education 
Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Through its award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, innovative classroom tools, and corporate partnerships, Discovery Education helps educators deliver equitable learning experiences engaging all students and supporting higher academic achievement on a global scale. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Discovery Education partners with districts, states, and trusted organizations to empower teachers with leading edtech solutions that support the success of all learners. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com.

Contacts 
Grace Maliska 
Discovery Education 
Email: gmaliska@dicoveryed.com

While biogas has only come into the modern public periphery in the last few decades, it has actually been utilized throughout history. Evidence of the use of biogas goes back to as early as the 10th century BC, where its combustion was used to heat the bathwater of the ancient Assyrians.

Not much was known about the origins of the biogas until about 2,500 years later, when the scientist Jan Baptist Van Helmont recorded that decaying organic matter produced flammable gases.

In the 1700s, Count Alessandro Volta, famous for his invention of the battery, found a direct correlation between the amount of decaying matter and the amount of flammable gas produced.

Then, at the beginning of the 1800s, Sir Humphry Davy, the creator of the first electric light, determined that the flammable gas being produced from the decaying organic matter was methane.

Not too soon after, in 1859, the first known anaerobic digester plant was built in Bombay, India, and by 1895, biogas recovered from a sewage treatment plant in Exeter, England was used to fuel their streetlamps.

As science continued to progress, researchers in the 1930s identified anaerobic bacteria as the generators of biogas and found the ideal conditions for its methane production. However, modern anaerobic digestion only began to make traction in the 1970s, where the drive for alternatives to fossil fuels drove the innovation and widespread development of the biogas industry.

With the dramatic increase in demand for renewable energy in the 21st century, anaerobic digestion emerged as a solution to meet the growing decarbonized energy demand and national and global methane reduction targets. Celebrating more than a decade in business, Vanguard Renewables has emerged as a leader in America’s anaerobic digestion and biogas space, partnering with farmers and food waste generators to create renewable natural gas.

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At AMD, our purpose is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences and help solve the world’s most important challenges. From powering the cloud services that have become an essential part of how we work, game, and connect, to enabling breakthroughs in science, medicine, and industry that improve our daily lives, AMD technology is used by billions of people every day. We are committed to pushing the envelope in high-performance and adaptive computing responsibly and aligned with our core values and inclusive culture.

In 2023, we delivered annual revenue of $22.7 billion, driven by strong demand for our data center and embedded products. Together with our employees, customers, and partners, we also made progress in meeting our digital impact, environmental sustainability, diversity, belonging and inclusion, and supply chain responsibility goals.

For example, from 2021 to 2023, more than 150 universities, research institutions, and non-profit organizations focused on scientific research and education received AMD technology donations through our AI and HPC Fund and STEM initiatives. We also reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from operations (Scope 1 and 2) by 24.5% in 2023 compared to our 2020 baseline. And we remain on track to achieve our goal of delivering a 30x increase in energy efficiency from 2020 to 2025 for AI training and high-performance computing applications.

Looking ahead, AI is the most important innovation of the last 50 years with the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. While we are in the very early stages of the AI computing era, the technology is already being used to improve healthcare diagnoses, accelerate climate research, and provide powerful tools for content creation. AMD is one of the only companies in the world with the breadth of compute engines, IP, and expertise needed to power AI from the cloud, to the edge, and across billions of end user devices. Importantly, we are also committed to responsibly developing and deploying AI.

In 2023, we launched a Responsible AI Council that made progress on a number of priorities, including establishing AI governance, creating a responsible AI culture, and collaborating on industry best practices. We also expanded our industry coordination efforts in 2023-2024 through our participation in the Responsible AI Institute, including undergoing an evaluation on our internal policies, governance, training, and other areas to inform our strategy moving forward.

While we have delivered significant advances in computing power and efficiency in recent years, I believe the best is yet to come. As we reflect on our achievements and look to the future, our commitment to innovation, responsibility, and inclusion remain critical to our success.

You can read more about our progress and priorities throughout this report. Together with our partners, we will continue pushing the boundaries of computing to redefine what is possible and leverage the power of high-performance and adaptive computing to improve the world.

DR. LISA SU 
AMD Chair and Chief Executive Officer

Originally published in AMD 2023-24 Corporate Responsibility Report.