Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Keep up with the latest news from 3BL’s clients.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Redefining Supply Chains With Integrated Logistics: The DP World Approach

DP World

Social Impact & Volunteering

Nielsen Global Impact Day 2025: Expanding Our Global Impact

Nielsen

Research, Reports & Publications

Teva’s 2025 Healthy Future Report Highlights Environmental and Access to Medicines Progress, Including Meeting All Sustainability-Linked Bond Targets

Teva Pharmaceutical

Innovation & Technology

An Ecosystem Approach to the Future of Automotive

Qualcomm

Events, Media & Communications

Coalition to Develop First Standardized Guidance for Assessing and Managing Corporate Value Chain Water Risk

SCS Global Services

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Celebrating the Sixth Sands Cares Accelerator Graduate: The LGBTQ+ Center of Las Vegas

Las Vegas Sands

Responsible Production & Consumption

Food Security: Reducing Food Loss and Waste Is Our Best Investment for Mitigating Current and Future Food Crises

Care USA

Innovation & Technology

Beyond Earth Day: Turning Sustainability Into Growth Across the Partner Ecosystem

Lenovo

Featured Brands

DreamSpring Introduces New Loan Products Designed for Small Business Affordability

DreamSpring, a nonprofit CDFI and SBA lender, has introduced new loan products tailored for small businesses, including flexible repayment and care economy financing. With a $500,000 Wells Fargo grant, DreamSpring expanded its offerings to address growth-stage needs and industrie

Comcast and Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County Open Lift Zones in Lacey to Help Youth Build Digital Skills

Comcast and Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County (BGCTC) have opened new Lift Zones in Lacey, Tumwater, Yelm, and Rochester to help youth build their digital skills.

An Ecosystem Approach to the Future of Automotive

The automotive industry is undergoing one of the most profound transformations in history. Vehicles are evolving into software-defined platforms capable of improving safety, creating new experiences for drivers and passengers, and continuously evolving over their lifetimes.

Guiding Stars: What We’re Learning About Food, Packaging & the Environment

Social media feeds fill with news of forever chemicals. Apps abound that allow us to assess a product’s “health impact” score. Meanwhile, we still want nutritious options that are best for our bodies and health.

How We’re Building a Cleaner, More Efficient Energy Supply | Cisco FY25 Purpose Report

Cisco has long believed that sustainability action can spur innovation and build a more resilient energy supply.

Redefining the Human Experience With Intelligent Computing

Think of AI like coffee. You don’t walk into a café and ask for “a beverage brewed from roasted beans” — that’s assumed. You order the experience. Latte, half-pump vanilla, extra shot against a soundtrack of acoustic 90s alternative.

Mi Casa Es Su Casa

A first-of-its-kind home for adults with disabilities has opened in Miami – with support from Truist – bringing purpose to life and expanding what’s possible in care.

Multiple Eco-Certifications for 2026 LG TVs Demonstrate Sustainability Progress

Global consumer electronics innovator LG Electronics has earned multiple globally recognized eco-certifications for its 2026 TV lineup, underscoring the company’s sustainability efforts across the full product lifecycle, from manufacturing and distribution to end-of-life

Mastercard: In Los Angeles, Luxury Retail’s Second — and More Sustainable — Act

At first glance, The Way We Wore could be mistaken for an ordinary Los Angeles secondhand store with a warehouse vibe. Huge windows cast warm light onto cement floors and racks hung with an eclectic mix of clothing and accessories.

Medtronic Launches Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation System for Parkinson’s Patients in India

Adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) is designed to automatically adjust therapy based on changes in brain signals or patient activity.

Recent Alerts

Health & Healthcare

Nestlé Commitment: Reduce Sodium in our Products

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Intersection of Cognitive Computing and Sustainability

For brand and marketing executives, in particular, artificial intelligence applications present a unique opportunity to track engagement around any company activity, including sustainability efforts.

Environment

The Road to A Clean Energy Future: Chevrolet’s Inside Story

Chevrolet’s carbon-reduction initiative established a groundbreaking goal in 2010 to invest up to $40 million to reduce 8 million metric tons CO2 through carbon projects across America. By empowering radical stakeholder conversations and collaborative partnerships which, as CEO of Climate Neutral Business Network I’ve been privileged to lead, Chevrolet discovered an unexpected – and transformative – road to a clean energy future.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Time Warner Cable Employee Engagement – Small Events Add Up To Big Impact

Research, Reports & Publications

Domtar Continues to Reduce its Waste and Divert Materials from Landfills

Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide variety of fiber-based products, including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers, and absorbent hygiene products.

Environment

Why Do Some Companies Revise their Carbon Disclosures?

New research, "Why Do Some Companies Revise their Carbon Disclosures?" by CSRHub's Bahar Gidwani and Carbon Market Data's Cedric Bleuez. Complimentary report download.

Education

Building a Workforce for the Software Economy

Being able to continue providing the quality products and services our customers demand starts with our employees. We must have the skilled, prepared talent that can meet and exceed the challenges of our business.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Holiday Giving Made Simple: A Checklist

If you're interested in hiring and recruiting talented, civic-minded employees, we have the secret recipe...

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Two Ways to Solve Your Sustainability Business Case Problems

When it comes time to crunch the numbers, sustainability initiatives may seem too abstract, too intangible. How do you know you are making the right investments and optimizing business value?

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

JetBlue Achieves Top Score in LGBT Workplace Equality

For Yet Another Year JetBlue Earns a Perfect '100' From the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Annual Scorecard on LGBT Workplace Equality

Responsible Production & Consumption

First Green Supply Chain Forum Hosted in Tianjin, China

On October 22, 2015, The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) convened the “Sustainable Development and Business Practices – 2015 Green Supply Chain Forum” jointly with Tianjin Green Supply Chain Center (TGCC), China Environmental United Certification Center (CEC), Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) in Tianjin.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ten Innovative Nonprofits Receive $40,000 GSK IMPACT Awards for Contributing to a Healthier Triangle Region

GSK [LSE/NYSE: GSK] and Triangle Community Foundation today announced the GSK IMPACT Award Winners in a ceremony at GSK’s Research Triangle Park facility. Ten local nonprofits earned $40,000 each in recognition of their outstanding contributions to a healthier Triangle region.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru Launches Eighth Annual Share The Love Campaign

Subaru of America, Inc. has launched the eighth annual “Share the Love” campaign, which will run through January 2, 2016.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Alliance Data Makes $2.6 Million Donation to United Way Chapters Nationwide

Alliance Data associates contributed $1.35 million out of their own wallets, which the company then matched dollar for dollar, for the first time this year, for a total contribution of $2.6 million to United Way chapters across the country. According to statistics from United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, funds like these mean 18,240 abused children will be able to receive yearlong crisis intervention and counseling or 24,320 students will be to participate in interactive STEM programs to strengthen the bench of the next generation workforce.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Pizza Hut Corporate ‘Green Team’ Awarded the Environmental Star of Excellence

Pizza Hut corporate created the ‘Green Team’ earlier this year in an effort to create more sustainable office processes. The team has addressed several projects to implement sustainable practices at the Restaurant Support Center (RSC) this year including a waste audit, Earth Day events such as the Go Dark Hour where all lights in the RSC were turned down to conserve energy, education and awareness, and careful resource management in our headquarters.

Events, Media & Communications

Mike Bloomberg: Why the Paris Climate Summit is Now More Important than Ever

On November 13, only hours before terrorists launched despicable attacks on the people of Paris, I met with Mayor Anne Hidalgo to discuss the upcoming Climate Summit for Local Leaders that we are convening on December 4, as part of the U.N.’s gathering of world leaders at COP21.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Safe, Sound, and Serviceable: Norfolk Southern’s Bridge Infrastructure

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Group, Inc. Earns Top Score on Corporate Equality Index for Third Consecutive Year

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

An Interview with Henri de Castries of AXA at the BSR Conference 2015

In an interview at the BSR Conference 2015, Henri de Castries, chairman and CEO of insurance company AXA, spoke with us about resilience and the insurability of a 4˚C rise in global temperature.

Education

Amgen Scholars Program 2014 Annual Report

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bloomberg partner CDP launches their US Climate Change Report

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

What HP, Groupon, DICK’s Sporting Goods and New Balance Have in Common

HP uses it to engage employees. Groupon encourages restaurant visits with it. DICK’s leverages its power to remind consumers that sports matter. New Balance moves shoes with it. What is it? “It” is a strategic, win-win partnership between company and cause that pays both social and financial dividends: it’s cause marketing. All of these brands have won the industry's highest honor: the Cause Marketing Halo Award. And the 2016 submission period is now open!

Events, Media & Communications

UPS Wants Your Holiday Wish List

When civil rights activist Bob Brown learned how many school children in Africa didn’t have access to school books, he set out to change the world – one book at a time.

Environment

Bill McKibben: Putting the X in XL

The drawn-out fight to prevent the Keystone XL pipeline recently ended in a triumph for environmental activists, when President Obama announced he would not approve the pipeline.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ch. 2 WSB-TV and the Trust for Public Land Name Tom Branch as Atlanta’s 2015 Cox Conserves Hero

Channel 2 WSB-TV and The Trust for Public Land named Tom Branch as Atlanta’s 2015 Cox Conserves Hero. Branch’s nonprofit of choice, Park Pride, will receive $10,000 on his behalf. The three finalists were chosen by a judging panel and then competed in an online public vote to be named Atlanta’s Cox Conserves Hero.

Latest Campaigns

Integrated Tools

Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...

Kingfisher Around the World

The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...

Small Business Growth

We strengthen communities and help create local jobs by investing in underserved small business owners. We fund nonprofits that are focused on...

PSEG Environmental Stewardship

PSEG’s environmental stewardship is evident in programs and strategies that reflect our commitment to clean air, clean water and waste management...

License to Operate

Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...

Collaboration and Partnership

Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...

The Ray

News and information about The Ray, Georgia's restorative, sustainable highway of the future.

Sustainable Operations

ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)

Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

P&G | Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Responsibility: We’ve achieved 14 out of 16 of the environmental goals we set in 2010, and we will accelerate our progress as we work to...