Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Mixed-Use: Green Housing and Social Enterprise

GreenMoney Journal

Green Infrastructure

The Ray Unveils Digital Transformation To Fuel National Expansion

Ray C. Anderson Foundation

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Mastercard: The Power of Data To Unlock More Inclusive Financial Experiences

Mastercard

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Spreading Joy and Relief in Times of Need

Bath & Body Works

Events, Media & Communications

IOC Announces Winners of Climate Action Awards 2025

International Olympic Committee





Recent Alerts

Join Leaders From Google, Microsoft, REI & More at GreenBiz 26

Trellis Group

Events, Media & Communications

sustainability: 2025 Report - Rockwell Automation
Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

people in a boat
What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Research, Reports & Publications

Making HP as Green as It Can Be: What We Did in 2017

From products to offices to manufacturing, HP’s commitment to sustainability affects every aspect of our business. Here’s what we achieved in just one year.

Diversity & Inclusion

Aflac CEO Dan Amos Among 50 Best CEOs Focused on Diversity

Aflac CEO Dan Amos has ranked No. 16 on Comparably​’s list of 50 Best CEOs focused on diversity!

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Habitat for Humanity: Creating ‘a Safer Place to Sleep at Night’ for Millions of People

After four decades of helping families build or improve a place they can call home, Habitat for Humanity® has realized that a house is more than walls, a roof, a floor, and a door. Creating opportunities that enable people to improve their living conditions can lead to positive changes like improved health, better education outcomes, and the ability to make forward-looking choices.

Environment

Ceres: Clean Energy Opportunities Align With Investment Fundamentals

Now that clean energy has gone mainstream, there is an array of existing and emerging opportunities to scale up clean energy investments while also meeting investors’ risk-return requirements. Across asset classes, clean energy opportunities are available that align with investment fundamentals such as long-term risk diversification. Savvy investors are now moving to understand the expanding opportunities in the clean energy sector, recognizing that this market is growing in terms of the breadth and quality of available opportunities.

Diversity & Inclusion

When Untapped Potential Meets Access to College

In some communities around the world, people shy away from discussing mental health and behavioral issues. But one college student has decided to tackle these topics head-on — and make a career out of it. Jacklyn Garote, who is from Saipan, Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands, hopes to be a leader in the field of psychology. She’s currently majoring in psychology, planning to also major in sociology, and aspires to be a licensed therapist and psychology researcher.

Diversity & Inclusion

Scotiabank - "The Price of Equality"

Scotiabank’s campaign, the “Price of Equality” has gained a lot of attention globally, where it successfully addressed the gender wage gap in Peru, known to be the highest in Latin America.

Education

Creating Strong Bridges to Biotech: Professional Development in Action

School is out for summer – or almost – for most high school students globally. But for some teachers, the learning is going to continue. Around the world, Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) sites are gearing up for their professional development institutes, or PDIs. These multi-day workshops train high school teachers in the ABE curriculum, directly giving them experience with the hands-on biotech labs they’ll run in their classrooms when school resumes in the fall.

Diversity & Inclusion

The UPS Foundation Awards Over $10M in Grants to Advance Diversity & Inclusion Around the World

The UPS Foundation, which leads the global citizenship programs for UPS, has announced more than $10 million in grants to 44 organizations to promote diversity & inclusion.

Social Impact & Volunteering

CIT Gives Back During Annual Volunteer Month

CIT Group Inc. today announced the results of its annual employee volunteer initiative, CIT Cares Month. Throughout June, more than 250 community projects were completed by 1,900 volunteers over 7,300 hours across 18 locations to make a difference.

Research, Reports & Publications

Cobalt, Lithium-ion Batteries and Social Sustainability

Cobalt is key in emerging low-carbon technologies, specifically lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. It forms part of the cathode active material (for example, lithium cobalt oxide, LiCoO2) that receives positively charged lithium ions during the battery’s discharge.

Health & Healthcare

More Than 300 Partners Want to Know – What Do Women and Girls Want Most When It Comes to Quality Health Care?

The recently launched What Women Want campaign is especially motivating given its potential to transform accountability for reproductive and maternal health at the global and national levels.

Environment

EHS Director’s Cut: 5 Cringe-Worthy Workplace Safety Moments From "The Office"

Antea Group recaps 5 hilarious EHS moments from “The Office” and the serious lessons EHS pros can learn from them.

Education

VIDEO | Barclays Citizenship Awards: Digital Eagles US Team Promotes Digital Fluency in the Next Generation

To promote digital fluency in the next generation, the Digital Eagles US team successfully co-ordinated and ran monthly coding sessions for students at schools across New York and New Jersey. T

Responsible Production & Consumption

Environmental Paper Network Launches Extensive Update to Its Paper Calculator

An improved web-based Paper Calculator, launched today by the Environmental Paper Network-North America, provides users with new information and features to help them measure the impacts of their paper and reduce that impact through better choices. Paper Calculator version 4 is the most comprehensive update of this tool to be released. It delivers more expansive environmental impact categories including additional pollutants and new biodiversity and ecosystem impacts, for a total of 24 indicators in all. It provides more accurate climate change reporting and has been updated with the latest paper industry and life cycle assessment data from trusted sources. Additionally, the new calculator covers an expanded range of paper grades. Read more...

Research, Reports & Publications

New Report Provides Insights on Responsible Sourcing in Automotive and Electronics Industries

Drive Sustainability and the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) today announced the release of a new study examining responsible sourcing of materials in the automotive and electronics industries. The report, Material Change, was commissioned by Drive Sustainability and the Responsible Minerals Initiative and completed by The Dragonfly Initiative (TDI).

Environment

Uniting Team Members to Clean Up the World’s Shorelines

Dell employees on almost every continent organized Shore Up events to collect plastics and other litter from local beaches, waterways and other areas.

Environment

VIDEO | P&G Asks Kids What 2030 Will Be Like

We don’t know what the world will be like in 2030 so we asked the next generation. Hear what they say and how our new 2030 sustainability goals will help leave a better world for them.

Education

Fast-Growing Small Shade Trees

It can be hard to find the right tree for the right place when you have a small space to work with. But that shouldn’t stop you from planting trees. There are plenty of small trees that are meant for small spaces. But before you plant, decide what purpose you want your tree to serve: are you planting for beauty? Shade? Privacy? Windbreak? Determining what you want your tree to do will help you narrow down your tree selection.

Research, Reports & Publications

BD Shares Progress Towards Achieving 2020 Sustainability Goals

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today issued its 2017 Sustainability Performance Update that focuses on four key strategic areas that support the company’s 2020 Sustainability Goals.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sodexo Recognized by Vizient as Purchased Services Supplier of the Year

Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company committed to improving Quality of Life, announced that is has been named as Purchased Services Supplier of the Year by Vizient, Inc., the largest member-driven healthcare performance improvement company in the country.

Events, Media & Communications

Sustainable Brands Announces New Metrics 2018

Sustainable Brands® recently released the brochure for its 8th annual New Metrics conference. New Metrics ’18: The ROI of Sustainability will take place October 29-31 at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, PA.

Social Impact & Volunteering

What Could Your NGO Accomplish With Free Support From Skilled Business Professionals?

Join Taproot Foundation’s webinar on Thursday, July 26th for all the tools you need to get started on Taproot+, the cost-free online platform that connects charitable organizations in the United Kingdom, India, the United States, and Singapore with skilled volunteers for short-term pro bono projects. During the event, Taproot staff will show you how to translate your challenges and plans into a clear volunteer request and guide you through posting your project live.

Research, Reports & Publications

PepsiCo Reports Significant Strides in Pursuit of Performance With Purpose 2025 Agenda

In its latest Sustainability Report, released today, PepsiCo reported important progress in 2017 against each of the company's three focus areas – Products, Planet, and People – while also returning $6.5 billion in cash to shareholders during the same period. This progress advances PepsiCo's ongoing sustainability efforts across its operations, value chain, and the food and beverage industry at-large, as part of the company's Performance with Purpose 2025 Agenda.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Less Space for Waste

Despite an impressive start, single-use technology recycling is still in its infancy in the biopharma industry. The MilliporeSigma/Triumvirate partnership is the only one of its kind in the industry and is focused primarily on East Coast facilities. As global disposable plastic production continues to exceed the ability of waste management to keep up, recycling is becoming imperative.

Research, Reports & Publications

LifeStraw Releases First Responsibility Report Highlighting New Commitments and 13 Years of Global Safe Drinking Water Efforts

LifeStraw, a global leader in developing innovative filtration and purification products for safe drinking water, today released its first responsibility report highlighting 13 years of global safe drinking water efforts. Specifically, it outlines new commitments to its retail give back programs, sustainability efforts, support of public lands and programs empowering its employees.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  2. Advocacy
    Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...
  3. IWBI | Community News
    We believe that people's health and wellness should be at the center of design. That’s why we’re working with industry professionals in real estate...
  4. Nutrition and Health
    Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
  5. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  6. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...
  7. Sustainability by Antea Group
    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
  8. FedEx Cares | Overall
    FedEx Cares is our global community engagement program and one way that we live out our purpose of connecting people and possibilities. Our goal is to...
  9. KeyBank Fraud Protection Center
    Advanced security, fraud, and data protection, Keeping your accounts and information secure is a priority for us, and we know it’s a priority for you...
  10. The Ray
    News and information about The Ray, Georgia's restorative, sustainable highway of the future.
  11. Emergency Response
    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  12. 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...
  13. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  14. 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...
  15. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.