ESG News from Leading Brands

Keep up with the latest environmental, social and governance news from companies embracing the triple bottom line, shared via 3BL's distribution platform.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Benevity Releases Its Top 10 Charitable Causes Supported by Companies and Their People in 2021

Benevity announced its annual top 10 causes and giving trends data for 2021, demonstrating that global events and crises continued to impact giving behaviors.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Marketplace Is No Longer Overlooking Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous peoples have been historically overlooked and exploited. As we enter the new year, we call for more organizations to look within Indigenous communities, at the people and cultural heritage left underserved, and task you with the responsibility to uplift these voices and their autonomy. Will you answer this call?

Social Impact & Volunteering

Lifting Up Communities on the National Day of Service

ViacomCBS has empowered employees to support nonprofit organizations and champion their favorite causes from anywhere in the world.

Energy

Tackling the Hot Topic of Global Energy Consumption for Mobile Networks

Global energy consumption for mobile networks is a hot topic. Carbon footprint and costs generated by energy use is one of our industry’s greatest challenges.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Land Betterment Impact Minute #31: The Importance of a Sustainable Agbioscience Economy With Mitch Frazier of AgriNovus Indiana

Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”), an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining and industrial sites

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

3 Things to Know About Engaging Employees in Sustainability

As the Great Resignation continues, employers are seeking more ways to help employees feel fulfilled in their careers.

Health & Healthcare

Illumina Collaborates With Nashville Biosciences to Accelerate Medicines Development

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and Nashville Biosciences, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), today announced a multi-year agreement to accelerate medicines development through large-scale genomics and the establishment of a preeminent clinico-genomic resource. Using Illumina's next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms, scientists and researchers will be able to better identify disease associations and targets for intervention by analyzing data derived from VUMC's extensive, high-quality biobank of approximately 250,000 de-identified human DNA samples and associated longitudinal, structured medical data.

Sustainable Development Goals

How You Can Help Accelerate the Sustainable Transition in the New Year

With the breadth of challenges facing humanity, each new year gives us the collective opportunity to reflect on the progress we’ve made toward creating a more sustainable future for all.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Competing by Connecting

At CooperCompanies, our mission of improving lives one person at a time is grounded in enhancing health and wellness worldwide. For us, it’s not just business. It’s deeply personal.

Research, Reports & Publications

ACCP Releases 3rd Annual Making the Case for Socially Responsible Business Toolkit

The Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals (ACCP) today released its third annual Making the Case for Socially Responsible Business

Health & Healthcare

Surprise Medical Bill Law: What the No Surprises Act Means for You

Employees have had a win on Capitol Hill, even if they don’t know about it.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Next Generation ESG Strategy: Q&A With Peter Iliopoulos, SVP, Taxation, Sustainability, and Governmental Affairs at Gildan

As 2022 begins, Gildan, a leading vertically integrated apparel manufacturing company, has started the new year strongly by announcing its Next Generation ESG strategy and future targets.

Sustainable Development Goals

Welcome Progess on SDGs Reporting - Thanks to GRI Standards

A new study has revealed that four-in-five companies assessed now include a commitment in their sustainability reports to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Social Impact & Volunteering

A Virtuous Circle of Giving - Cisco Meraki Employees Pay It Forward to 826 Valencia

Founded in 2002, 826 Valencia supports students ages 6-18 from under-resourced communities with their creative and expository writing skills, and helps educators inspire their students to write.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Humanity-Centric Innovation: Redefining the Meaning of Billionaire

In a recent TEDxOshkosh talk, Kimberly-Clark’s chief scientist Pete Dulcamara discussed how a new focus on humanity-centric innovation can help solve the most significant problems facing society and the environment.

Education

San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District Improves Indoor Air Quality With Trane and Synexis

Students and staff in the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District (SFDRCISD) are breathing easier with new district-wide indoor environmental quality enhancements. The school district teamed up with Trane® – by Trane Technologies and Synexis® to improve the quality of indoor environment across the district’s five campuses in Texas.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ørsted Ranked World's Most Sustainable Energy Company and Publishes Climate Leadership Handbook

Ørsted was ranked as the world’s most sustainable energy company on Corporate Knight’s 2022 Global 100 index for the fourth year running.

Social Impact & Volunteering

CASE Donates Compact Track Loader to Zac Brown's Camp Southern Ground to Support Veteran and Youth Programs

CASE Construction Equipment, a brand of CNH Industrial, donated a TV450B compact track loader (CTL) and numerous attachments to Camp Southern Ground, a multi-missioned non-profit organization in Fayetteville, Georgia founded by GRAMMY Award-winning artist Zac Brown of Zac Brown Band.

Energy

National Grid US Crosses Milestone, Connects 3 GW of Clean Distributed Generation

National Grid announced today that the company has reached a milestone in connecting more than three gigawatts (GW) of renewable distributed generation across its network.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Boston Scientific Wins Premier Catalyst Award for DE&I Excellence

Boston Scientific was honored with a 2022 Catalyst Award, the premier recognition of organizational diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives that drive representation and inclusion for women.

Energy

Advance Planning, Future-Proofing Key to Unlocking Worldwide Fleet Electrification

As calls for sustainability and global decarbonization rise, the electrification of commercial fleets — many from high-profile companies like Amazon and FedEx — has become commonplace.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Timberland's Race to End Waste with Timberloop Program

Introducing Timberloop™, Timberland's circular design platform taking back worn items and giving them new life. It is our goal that by 2030, 100% of our products are designed for circularity and Timberloop™ will help us get there.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Mark Donohue, Founder of LifeGuides, Honored As “Top 100 Thought Leader in Trust” by Trust Across America

The global leader in measuring organizational trust, Trust Across America, has honored Mark Donohue, Founder and Executive Chairman of LifeGuides, with the respected “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trust” award.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Catalyst Award Is ‘Something to Be Proud Of’

Enbridge would like to thank Catalyst for this award recognizing our diversity and inclusion program.

Environment

Preparing an SPCC Plan for Your Technology Facility

While each SPCC Plan is unique to the facility, there are four major elements that must be included in all plans. In this post, we provide a breakdown each element specifically for Technology Facilities.

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