Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

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What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

St. Louis Green Business Challenge Recognizes Trane for Advancing Sustainable Business Challenges

The St. Louis Green Business Challenge recently recognized the Bridgeton, Missouri, office of Trane, a leading global provider of indoor comfort solutions and services and a brand of Ingersoll Rand with an Award of Merit as a top performer for its adoption of green business practices.

Social Impact & Volunteering

4 Employee Engagement Benefits of Corporate Volunteer Programs

Employee disengagement can prevent your business from reaching success. The good news? Employee volunteer programs can easily increase employee engagement.

Social Impact & Volunteering

An Austin Marathon Story: Ashley Wallace

I want there to be a future where no parent has to tell their young child, “I have cancer.”

Environment

Statement from Mindy Lubber on SCOTUS Temporary Stay of EPA Clean Power Plan

Ceres strongly disagrees with the Supreme Court's decision to stay the Clean Power Plan while litigation proceeds. Over 365 businesses and investors support the Clean Power Plan and they're backing their words with deeds.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Microsoft Employees Raise a Record-Breaking $125 Million for Nonprofits in 2015

Microsoft’s Employee Giving Program raised a record-breaking $125 million for nonprofits and schools around the world in 2015, including the company match of employee contributions. Our employees increased their support through time, money and talent by $8 million, marking the greatest year-over-year increase in our program’s history.

Social Impact & Volunteering

CITGO Employees Raise Funds and Awareness for the American Heart Association

According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease kills 17.3 million people every year. To help curb this statistic, volunteers from the CITGO Corpus Christi Refinery raised money for the local chapter of the American Heart Association, joining their neighbors for the 11th consecutive year in the organization’s annual Heart Walk. This event raises funds for the American Heart Association, while increasing awareness for this deadly disease.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Making Employee Volunteers Matter

Four little but important steps can help bridge the gap between corporate goals, employee desires and nonprofit needs when it comes to structuring a valuable and successful company volunteering program.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Total Control

I’m describing, of course, IT assets at play in an enterprise without very tight controls in place. Sound far-fetched? Unfortunately, it’s all too common.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Emerging Workforce & How Demographics are Changing Business

The workforce, in the U.S. and globally, is evolving at an unprecedented rate. With the addition of Generation Z, it will soon be five generations strong. While having access to such an extensive pool of talent is an exciting prospect for many employers, managing employees across such a broad range of demographics will require leadership to flex their styles and meet employees where they are.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Women’s Economic Empowerment Strategies Should Be Holistic and Integrated

A new report from BSR, the International Center for Research on Women, and the Oak Foundation helps companies build effective women's economic empowerment strategies.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Barclays Empowering Young People On And Off The Rugby Field

Diversity & Inclusion

Mark Ciriello Named New Operational Performance and Assurance Practice Leader for Antea Group

Antea Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Ciriello to the role of Operational Performance and Assurance Practice Leader. With an MBA and 15 years of consulting experience, Mark assists clients with development, implementation and maintenance of EHS programs, compliance auditing, due diligence and strategic planning. He specializes in managing the environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks inherent in facility operations and business transactions, while identifying the value that can be created through effective EHS management systems that are aligned with corporate culture.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Subaru of America, Inc. Appoints Denise Coogan as Environmental Partnerships Manager

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced the appointment of Denise Coogan to manager of environmental partnerships. Reporting to the manager of promotions and sponsorship for Subaru, Coogan will be responsible for leading the company’s external environmental and sustainability marketing programs.

Environment

A Smart Monitoring System for Singapore’s Drinking Water Network

Xylem teamed with a local company to develop a monitoring system that will help Singapore address – and avoid – leaks, clogs and water quality issues in its drinking water network.

Health & Healthcare

The Global Health Corporate Champions: Expanding the Boundaries of Global Health

“There is a shift taking place in the public health arena to strategically engage the private sector to address global health needs,” said Bridget McHenry, a fellow for Global Health Fellows Program II, serving as organizational development adviser for Office of Population and Reproductive Health in U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Health Bureau.
Benefit from this expanding concept of global health by taking part in the Global Health Corporate Champions. Global Health Corporate Champions is making pro bono experiences more accessible and affordable for companies interested in exploring pro bono in a critical emerging market. PYXERA Global recently announced that it is fielding a multi-corporate, cross functional team of 10-12 professionals for a four-week assignment in A

Responsible Production & Consumption

Evolving Regulations: REACH, 5 Substances Added to the Candidate List

Recently, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) updated their list of Substances of High Concern (SVHCs). According to an article published on the ECHA website, there were five new SVHCs added to The Candidate List. The ECHA cited that the reasoning for these being added was due to “…the carcinogenic, toxic to reproduction, persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT), and very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) properties of the substances…”, expanding The Candidate List total to 168.

Events, Media & Communications

Sustainable Brands Reveals Snapshot of SB’16 Copenhagen with Premier Networking Event

Sustainable Brands® officially launches into the Northern European business community today with an exclusive networking event in Copenhagen designed to capture attention among brand leaders who view sustainability-led initiatives as an essential driver of business success and value creation.

Responsible Production & Consumption

How the Commodities Market is Pummeling Sugar Rights Holders

Sugar. It’s such a labor-intensive crop that it drove the slave industry in the Caribbean for decades.

Innovation & Technology

HPE: Closing the Digital Divide

Diversity & Inclusion

FOX's 'Empire' Wins Big at the 2016 NAACP Image Awards, Takes Home 5 Awards

FOX was well-represented at the 47th NAACP Image Awards on February 5, which celebrated the year in "outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts, as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors," according to the NAACP's website. The blockbuster drama Empire, which was recently renewed for a third season, won five Image awards.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Modern Day Slavery: The Scope May Be Larger Than You Think

a company that provides goods and services to a larger company above the £36 million threshold may be asked to provide due diligence reports on their respective anti-slavery efforts.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Wells Fargo Commissions Original Art Depicting the African American Experience

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) recently commissioned Atlanta-based artist Keith Rosemond II to create six original illustrations depicting the African American experience.

Social Impact & Volunteering

CSX Announces Availability of “Game On” School Grants for Healthy Kids

CSX and Action for Healthy Kids have again partnered to offer “Game On” School Grants for Healthy Kids to support increasing physical activity and promote nutrition initiatives.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Behind Domtar's Landowners: Donna Janssen

Last year, Domtar made the decision to be more vocal about the importance of purchasing paper made in North America with customers, prospects, media and environmental groups.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  2. Community Impact
    Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.
  3. 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...
  4. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  5. Emergency Response
    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  6. Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator
    The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...
  7. Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
    Vision of Milano Cortina 2026 The Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 is the first Olympic winter Games planned and organised under Olympic...
  8. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  9. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  10. KeyBank: Responsible Banking
    Everyone’s financial journey is different. We make intentional efforts to meet the individual needs of clients and communities through a diverse range...
  11. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  12. Rethinking EHS Podcast
    Join us as we travel the world to uncover real stories of impact—from landfills and energy transition to workplace safety, emerging contaminants, and...
  13. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  14. Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
    Vision of Milano Cortina 2026 The Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 is the first Olympic winter Games planned and organised under Olympic...