Improving every life is an exciting endeavour and an ambitious one, but it's the right thing to do and core to who we are.
Our Every Life Ambition
Imagine a world where every life is improved – where natural resources are reliably available, people have access to education and opportunity, and communities are safe, healthy, connected and thriving.
We aim to help make that world a reality. But an ambition that big won’t be easy. So we at 3M pledge the following:
- We will push ourselves to create the science and technology to achieve these goals.
- We will encourage individual passion and curiosity both within the company and within our communities.
- We will acknowledge that we cannot succeed alone and commit to stimulating and supporting collaborations to improve every life on earth.
Stories
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Why it’s good to be in the dark. Why it’s good to be in the dark.Why it’s good to be in the dark.
3M™ Speedglas™ Auto Darkening Filter technology allows a welder's screen to go dark as quickly as 0.1 milliseconds of the arc strike.
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Here’s a brighter idea. Here’s a brighter idea.Here’s a brighter idea.
Use silver metallised and weatherable polymeric film with a solar-weighted total hemispherical reflectance of 94% to direct light. The result: brighter LED lamps in Africa.
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Sighing a breath of relief. Sighing a breath of relief.Sighing a breath of relief.
Filtrete™ Healthy Living Ultimate Allergen Filters attract and capture microscopic particles that can carry bacteria and viruses, for about $80 a year.
Stories
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Why it’s good to be in the dark.
3M™ Speedglas™ Auto Darkening Filter technology allows a welder's screen to go dark as quickly as 0.1 milliseconds of the arc strike.
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Here’s a brighter idea.
Use silver metallised and weatherable polymeric film with a solar-weighted total hemispherical reflectance of 94% to direct light. The result: brighter LED lamps in Africa.
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Sighing a breath of relief.
Filtrete™ Healthy Living Ultimate Allergen Filters attract and capture microscopic particles that can carry bacteria and viruses, for about $80 a year.
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Stories
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Why it’s good to be in the dark.
3M™ Speedglas™ Auto Darkening Filter technology allows a welder's screen to go dark as quickly as 0.1 milliseconds of the arc strike.
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Here’s a brighter idea.
Use silver metallised and weatherable polymeric film with a solar-weighted total hemispherical reflectance of 94% to direct light. The result: brighter LED lamps in Africa.
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Sighing a breath of relief.
Filtrete™ Healthy Living Ultimate Allergen Filters attract and capture microscopic particles that can carry bacteria and viruses, for about $80 a year.
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Our Commitment and Journey
Our Partnerships
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Collaboration is an important part of our sustainability strategy. We partner with a variety of organisations to gain a diverse set of viewpoints on sustainability, a better understanding of the positions of our stakeholders and a mechanism to learn from the successes and failures of our peers.
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The Nature Conservancy
Together we have funded projects in the U.S., China, Brazil, Canada and Mexico.
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Darkwoods
A $500k 3M Foundation grant will help secure the single largest private land purchase for conservation in Canadian history, spanning from Yellowstone to the Yukon. This land will help restore caribou habitat and other critical species by connecting protected areas.
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The Minnesota Forest Legacy Partnership
A $1.5 million grant to protect 89,000 acres in northern Minnesota will make it one of the largest intact forests remaining nationwide.
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Crown of the Continent
In 2011, 3M provided a $1 million grant to knit together a 60-million-acre network of protected public lands across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and into southern British Columbia. This represents two of the largest conservation acquisitions in North American history.
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Emissions Credits
3M has been able to earn emission reduction credits under U.S. environmental laws for reducing its air emissions beyond environmental regulatory requirements. In most cases we either sold those credits and contributed the profits to environmentally beneficial projects or contributed the credits themselves to state and local governments for air-quality improvements.
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World Resources Institute
We’re working with the World Resources Institute and our fellow members of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to develop a global protocol to quantify carbon emissions in the supply chain and throughout product life cycles.
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Design for the Environment
Our Building and Commercial Services Division participates in a Design for the Environment (DFE) initiative through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As part of the initiative, 3M researchers work with government specialists to identify effective chemicals for cleaning products that protect both human and environmental health.
