Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Events, Media & Communications

VF Corporation Partners With Pattrn® to Launch New “Sustainable Solutions” Digital Media Series

Series seeks to connect with younger audiences about climate change challenges and potential solutions

Innovation & Technology

Key Accomplishments: Purposeful Innovation

Our 5G breakthroughs are helping transform industries, like telemedicine and remote education, and driving efficiencies with always-connected mobile PCs, smart cities and smart factories.

Green Infrastructure

To Reduce Climate Impacts, the Building Industry Must Change

There are large gains to be made by digitizing building infrastructure. Digital technologies enable buildings to understand where people are, what they need, and what they don’t need.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Vinyl Sustainability Council Verifies Nine Companies Through Industry Sustainability Initiative

Nine companies verified through vinyl industry-wide sustainability initiative.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Mohawk Teams up to Reduce Election Plastic Waste

On Wednesday, 1/27, Mohawk teamed up with Keep Calhoun-Gordon Beautiful to collect plastic political signs and keep them out of the landfill.

Environment

How You Can Build a Community Around EHS&S

Find out ways you can help build your own community around the topics of environment, health, safety, and sustainability.

Environment

Unyielding, Not Resilient: Why We Are More Focused Than Ever on Our Strategy and Values

Find out why Inogen Alliance is not resilient, but unyielding in the face of the changes happening in the world.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Recognized as an Outstanding Diversity & Inclusion Organization

CBRE has been named a 2021 Leader in Diversity among Dallas-based companies, one of six organizations—and the only one in commercial real estate —selected for this distinction.

Environment

Four Water Stewardship Trends to Watch in 2021

Water is a human right, yet one in three people globally do not have access to safe drinking water.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Corner Shops

Today, as we glimpse the dawn of a new year, thousands of specialized containers are being carefully loaded onto United aircraft, each one meticulously packed with doses of the lifesaving vaccine for Covid-19...

Energy

Enviva Announces 2020 Impact Report

Today, Enviva, a leading global renewable energy company specializing in sustainable wood bioenergy, published its 2020 Impact Report, which details the progress made in 2020 to implement the company’s Responsible Sourcing Policy provisions in its operations.

Responsible Production & Consumption

First Finfish Farm in United States Achieves ASC Certification

Blue Ocean Mariculture has become the first ASC certified finfish farm in the US after achieving certification against the ASC Seriola and Cobia Standard at its Hawaii farm.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Aaron's Story: Great Pay, Great Co-Workers and the Opportunity to Make the World a Little Greener.

The way Aaron sees it, there’s no better place he could be when it comes to his budding career as a process operator at ScottsMiracle-Gro’s largest fertilizer plant in Marysville, Ohio.

Green Infrastructure

Enbridge Line 3 - Environmental Regulations, COVID-19 Precautions, & Safety

Barry Simonson, our Line 3 replacement project director, discusses our safety precautions, COVID-19 protocols & environmental regulations associated with Line 3.

Green Infrastructure

Ninety One's Deirdre Cooper, Portfolio Manager, Participates in CFA Society Toronto's Climate Change Series: From Idea to Action

We find Investors in Canada to be forward-thinking and naturally seeking global, sustainable opportunities. We see an increasing focus on ESG, and particularly addressing climate change, as a key priority for our clients, so we’re delighted that Deirdre Cooper is participating in this important and timely conversation hosted by the CFA Society Toronto. - Katherine Tweedie, Ninety One

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Rockwell Automation Earns Top Marks in Human Rights Campaign's 2021 Corporate Equality Index for Nine Consecutive Years

Rockwell Automation proudly announced it earned a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index, the nation’s foremost survey & report measuring corporate policies related to LGBTQ workplace equality.

Health & Healthcare

Keeping Mental Health in Mind During a Pandemic Winter

As many parts of the country enter the season of shorter days and colder temperatures, it’s important for all of us to consider making a wellness plan to stay emotionally and physically healthy.

Research, Reports & Publications

Diversity in Sustainability Launches Its State of Diversity and Inclusion in Sustainability Survey: Share Your Perspective Today

Today, Diversity in Sustainability, a non-profit network focused on increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of sustainability, launched its inaugural State of Diversity and Inclusion in Sustainability Survey.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Memphis Library Foundation Receives $85,000 Grant to Drive Youth Literacy

Memphis Library Foundation today announced it received a grant of $85,000 from the International Paper Foundation to support various Memphis Public Libraries programs that promote youth literacy.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Black & Veatch Management Consulting Named Inframation and SparkSpread's No. 1 Technical Advisor by Deal Count for 2020

Outstanding performance during one of the most challenging years in recent history has made Black & Veatch’s Management Consulting business Inframation and SparkSpread’s top technical advisor by deal count for 2020.

Events, Media & Communications

Natura Group, Aviva Investor and European Commission Joined Reuters Events New and Revamped Responsible Business Week 2021

As current global system is on the brink of collapse, leading into a new sustainable future requires businesses to re-thinking parts, if not all, of their business.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Keysight Technologies Makes $554,000 Gift to the Hampton University School of Engineering and Technology

The donated equipment and software will assist greatly in Hampton’s School of Engineering and Technology’s efforts to update, upgrade, and create more innovative laboratory spaces in its school.

Innovation & Technology

Delving Into Digital Manufacturing & Operations

For the first End-to-End Value Chain podcast episode of 2021, we’re taking a deep dive into digital manufacturing and operations.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

GreenMoney Interviews: Liesel Pritzker Simmons on Impact Investing

Recently I spoke with Liesel Pritzker Simmons of Blue Haven Initiative, as part of our new "Millennials and Money" issue. Liesel oversees an impact investing portfolio structured to generate financial returns and address social and environmental challenges.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Duke Energy Donates $20,000 to Maryneal Volunteer Fire Department in Texas

Duke Energy Foundation and Duke Energy Renewables have awarded the Maryneal Volunteer Fire Department with a $20,000 grant to help maintain the critical safety services it provides to the local businesses and residents of Maryneal, Texas, and its surrounding area.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Principal Financial Group: Financial Inclusion
    Helping individuals and businesses gain access to useful financial products and services to meet their needs—from savings, credit, and insurance to...
  2. Cascale Events
    Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
  3. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  4. FedEx | Volunteer Campaigns
    Giving back is part of the FedEx culture. Team members support our charitable investments and local community needs by dedicating their time where...
  5. Whole Planet
    Whole Planet, a pillar of Whole Foods Market Foundation, helps people living in poverty build long-term financial resilience through income growth...
  6. Performance
    Prioritizing ethics, economic contribution, operational excellence, integrity, and accountability in all we do.
  7. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  8. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...
  9. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  10. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  11. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  12. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  13. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  14. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  15. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...