Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Energy

Best Buy’s New Science-Based Target Helps Customers Reduce Energy Use in Their Homes

Jun 24, 2019 10:35 AM ET

Earlier this week, Best Buy announced a Science-Based Target (SBT) to help consumers reduce their carbon emissions by 20 percent and save $5 billion on utility costs. In its own operations, Best Buy will reduce carbon emissions by 75 percent.

Events, Media & Communications

NAEM’s Impact Conference to Focus on Tangible Sustainability Goals, Business Results

Jun 24, 2019 10:30 AM ET

The National Association for Environmental, Health and Safety and Sustainability Management (NAEM) this week unveiled the final agenda for its August 2019 Impact conference in Milwaukee, an event designed for companies who are committed to translating their sustainability aspirations into measurable business results.

Innovation & Technology

Creating Transformative Experiences: Innovative Branded Content

Jun 24, 2019 10:15 AM ET

As part of this year’s Cannes Lions, RYOT worked with the team at P&G to produce two VR projects that highlight the importance of diversity and inclusion within the creative industry.

Diversity & Inclusion

#HPEPRIDE Celebration 2019

Jun 24, 2019 10:00 AM ET

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

General Mills Announces Food Recovery Champions Winners

Jun 24, 2019 10:00 AM ET

General Mills announces the 20 winners of its Food Recovery Champions program that awards grants to expand surplus food recovery in the U.S. and Canada for greater social and environmental impact.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Think Before You Throw: Help Put a Stop to Wishcycling

Jun 24, 2019 10:00 AM ET

Are you guilty of wishcycling? Also known as aspirational recycling, wishcycling happens when you put something into the recycling bin without checking whether it’s actually recyclable.

Diversity & Inclusion

A Lifeline for LGBTQ Youth in Crisis

Jun 24, 2019 10:00 AM ET

Our story began in 1998, when HBO aired the Academy Award-winning short film “Trevor.” Introduced by Ellen DeGeneres, the film was broadcast alongside the launch of TrevorLifeline, the world’s first 24/7 national lifeline supporting LGBTQ — lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning — young people in need of crisis intervention. The first calls were answered that night.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

4 Things to Look for When Picking an ESG Manager

Jun 24, 2019 9:05 AM ET

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Shape the Future of the Sustainability Standards Global Leader

Jun 24, 2019 9:00 AM ET

A global search is underway to find new members for five bodies that carry out crucial decision making and advisory functions for GRI, provider of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework.

Diversity & Inclusion

Interview With Laureen Abustan, Civil and Environmental Project Engineer

Jun 24, 2019 9:00 AM ET

Laureen Abustan is a water and wastewater project engineer. She joined Tetra Tech in March 2018 and applies her expertise in water, wastewater, environmental engineering, site development, and stormwater capture and reuse on projects in Los Angeles, California.

Research, Reports & Publications

MetLife 2018 Global Impact Report: MetLife Foundation

Jun 24, 2019 9:00 AM ET

MetLife Foundation enhances our company’s efforts to build for tomorrow and put people at the heart of our actions. In the belief that financial health belongs to everyone, the Foundation combines financial health expertise and grants to bring solutions to underserved people and communities. Globally, the Foundation partners with grantees and MetLife volunteers to drive impact. From 2013 to 2017, these efforts have reached more than six million lower-income individuals in 42 countries, meeting people where they are every step of the way.

Responsible Production & Consumption

HP is Reinventing Print Sustainability

Jun 24, 2019 5:45 AM ET

Our pledge is that printing will be forest positive, printers and their energy will be carbon neutral, and all printer materials will put
safety first and support a circular economy.

Sustainable Development Goals

World Refugee Day: Taking Steps for the Globally Displaced

Jun 21, 2019 3:15 PM ET

What if San Francisco was suddenly empty? Or New York City? Or both? Imagine over 9 million people fleeing their homes, families and friends, schools, and jobs—leaving two of the United States’ most populous cities nearly empty. Our world would look different—we would notice and want to know what’s going on. We would want to help.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Highlights From Corporate Day at the Global Pro Bono Summit

Jun 21, 2019 1:30 PM ET

Corporate Day at the Global Pro Bono Summit—hosted by Taproot Foundation—was built on connections, looking at pro bono as a piece of a company’s broader philanthropic puzzle.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Nestlé Volunteers Take Part in Lac Léman Clean-Up

Jun 21, 2019 12:50 PM ET

More than 600 Nestlé employees and their families are expected to join a clean-up initiative around Lac Léman, Switzerland on 22 June 2019. This initiative is part of Nestlé’s broader vision to achieve a waste-free future.

Diversity & Inclusion

Don't Hate me Because I'm #beautifuLGBTQ

Jun 21, 2019 12:45 PM ET

Don't hate me because I'm #beautifuLGBTQ. Happy Pride from Pantene

Diversity & Inclusion

Sysco Values Inclusiveness

Jun 21, 2019 12:30 PM ET

What is an ally? Allies are good listeners. They are open-minded and knowledgeable. Allies educate themselves and take proactive steps to prevent discrimination. Allies embody Sysco’s value of Inclusiveness. Being inclusive allows us to create a safe, diverse and dynamic work environment for our associates and customers where everyone has an equal opportunity to feel valued and respected, including LGBTQ+ people.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Closing the Digital Divide: How Comcast-NBCUniversal Does Community Impact

Jun 21, 2019 12:15 PM ET

One way to measure inequality in the country is through the digital divide. A Pew Research Center article revealed that even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption, the divide persists. Around 29 percent of adults with household incomes below $30,000 a year don’t own a smartphone and more than four-in-ten don’t have home broadband services (44 percent) or a traditional computer (46 percent). Meanwhile, higher-income Americans are also more likely to have multiple devices that enable them to go online. This divide also impacts children, including fostering a so-called the “homework gap”—the gap between school-aged children who have access to high-speed Internet at home and those who do not.

Education

FPT Industrial: Training the Next Generation of Engineers

Jun 21, 2019 12:00 PM ET

CNH Industrial’s global powertrain brand FPT Industrial is committed to developing ever more efficient engines, and to ensure this continues into the future, the Brand is committed to developing the engineers of the future who will help them achieve this.

Diversity & Inclusion

Viacom Hosts ‘In the Thick’ Podcast for Exploration of Immigrant Misrepresentation in Media

Jun 21, 2019 11:15 AM ET

Journalists Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela recorded an episode of their In The Thick podcast at Viacom’s Times Square headquarters last week, moderating a panel that explored how underrepresentation in the production and executive ranks feeds a skewed media portrait.

The panel, co-hosted by Hispanic employee resource groups from Viacom (Somos) and HBO (Alianza), included employees from both companies.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

PNC Supports ABLE Accounts: Tax-Advantaged Savings Accounts for People with Disabilities

Jun 21, 2019 11:00 AM ET

ABLE accounts allow eligible individuals in the disability community to build assets for today’s needs and invest for tomorrow. Monies placed into an ABLE Account permit a new way to save money without losing eligibility for certain means-tested benefit programs like Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).

Social Impact & Volunteering

Uniting Americans from Coast to Coast, Red and Blue and Every Color, to End Gun Violence

Jun 21, 2019 11:00 AM ET

Gun Violence is a national problem that needs national solutions. Almost every day we hear of another mass shooting* in our country. But America’s gun violence epidemic is made up of much more than high-profile media events. Every 16 hours, a woman in America is shot and killed by a current or former intimate partner. Suicides account for 60 percent of all gun deaths. And there are many communities across the country where gun violence on their streets is an everyday reality.

Diversity & Inclusion

Waving the Pride Flag

Jun 21, 2019 10:45 AM ET

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

'America Can’t Afford Unaffordable Housing’

Jun 21, 2019 10:00 AM ET

Antwone Fisher, an author and screenwriter who spent years homeless when he was a teenager, talks about being born in prison to his incarcerated mother, escaping foster home abuse, and living on the streets until joining the Navy, where he served for 11 years.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Scotiabank Women Initiative Continues to Deliver for Women Business Leaders

Jun 21, 2019 9:15 AM ET

The Scotiabank Women Initiative™ hosted the third Un-Mentorship Boot Camp for women business leaders and entrepreneurs yesterday in Waterloo, ON. This is the latest in a series of events to provide effective education and networking opportunities for women in business.