Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Empowerment Over Pressure: Meet Bhumi Patil

GoDaddy

Innovation & Technology

Mastercard: Six Payment Trends for 2026

Mastercard

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A New Year Perspective: Trusted Chemistry

Chemours

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Aflac Celebrates 70 Years of Innovation, Care and the Iconic Aflac Duck

Aflac Incorporated

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Gaziano Lineman Awards Finalists Announced

KeyBank





Recent Alerts

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

Environment

Innovative, Thought-Leading Organizations Advance the Monetization Working Group

Over the past 18 months, Antea Group in partnership with Fundación FEMSA has coalesced a number of thought-leading organizations to form the Monetization Working Group (MWG). This group aims to accelerate progress via removing obstacles to better, more sustainable business decisions by making key elements of sustainability more tangible and helping to build a better case for investment. Presently, the MWG is concentrating on creating a curriculum/tools that improve the monetization and business case development skills of those proposing and deciding on investments in sustainability.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Recognition by Any Other Name

Is recognition the holy grail of employee engagement and corporate success? It’s become an article of faith in the last decade or so and the subject of a lot of research.

Environment

Nespresso Plants 200,000 trees in Ethiopia and Guatemala

A total of 200 000 trees have been planted by Nespresso and partner Pur Projet in Ethiopia and Guatemala since the beginning of the year to benefit over 600 local coffee farmers.

Research, Reports & Publications

AEP Releases 2014 Social Performance Summary

American Electric Power released its 2014 Social Performance Summary, highlighting the company’s investment in the communities we serve.

Environment

General Mills Announces New Commitment on Climate Change

General Mills announced today a commitment to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent across its full value chain – from farm to fork to landfill – over the next 10 years. The commitment was calculated using science-based methodology to achieve a level of emission reductions that science suggests is necessary to sustain the health of the planet.

Environment

Brown-Forman Sets Zero Waste Target

Learn more about Brown-Forman's journey towards zero waste and our progress against our goal in this informational video.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Top Companies and Nonprofit Partners Named Finalists in 2015 VolunteerMatch Corporate Volunteer Awards

VolunteerMatch, the Web's largest volunteer engagement network, announced today the finalists for the 2015 VolunteerMatch Corporate Volunteer Awards. The winners will be recognized at a ceremony during the 2015 VolunteerMatch Summit, to be held December 1-2, 2015 in Oakland, CA.

Energy

Energy Services Coalition Participants Learn About Disruptive Forces in Energy Management

Jason Bingham, vice president of energy services and controls at Trane, a brand of Ingersoll Rand, will share insights with participants at the Fourth Annual Market Transformation Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, 8/31-9/2, in Charlotte, NC.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

A Brighter Future with Access to Safe Water: The Guzmán’s Story

This is the story of Luz Elena Guzmán’s family, who lived without treated water in Colombia until the Inter-American Development Bank’s AquaFund and the PepsiCo Foundation aided in improving their access to safe water.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Sept. 22 Webcast to Review Authoritative Analysis of Conflict Minerals Filings

Environment

A Green Lease of Life

Responsible Production & Consumption

Water-Smart Food

It’s been around for centuries, but only recently has this technology garnered renewed attention in both commercial and research sectors. Aquaponics, a type of integrated food production system, is a method of growing fish and plants in the same water. What makes aquaponics special? These fully contained, 100% re-circulating water systems set the standard for maximizing local water resources.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Brightpoint Health: From Days to Minutes with SuiteVolunteers

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

UN Global Compact’s Outgoing Director to Join Board of Values-Based Asset Management Firm

Today, after 15 years at the helm of the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, Georg Kell will step down as Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, the organization he helped found in 2000 and which he has built into a global movement over the past decade.

Environment

NetSuite Customer Case Study - Water for People

Water for People, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that all people have safe, continuous water, shares their mission story and how a software donation from NetSuite.org enables them to monitor effectiveness and improve transparency.

Environment

Engineering the Path to Water Conservation

“We’re doing a big chemistry experiment on our planet, and the predicted outcome is frightening.” -- Rob Zimmerman

Innovation & Technology

How a Young Entrepreneur Keeps a Positive Attitude In a Tough Business World

When talking to Jamila Smith, the young entrepreneur who created the eco-friendly streetwear line, Be Th3 Change, an old saying comes to mind. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Smith has struggled to make a go of her line, with even two failed Kickstarter campaigns under her belt. But that hasn't stop her.

Social Impact & Volunteering

A Helpless Feeling on 9/11 Sparked Motivation After Hurricane Katrina

Environment

GM GREEN Addresses Global Water Challenges with Local Solutions

Today marks the conclusion of World Water Week, a time devoted to raising awareness of global water issues. Since 1991, the world’s top water experts, decision-makers, business innovators and conservationists have gathered in Stockholm for a week-long conference to address the critical challenges to our most essential resource.

Health & Healthcare

Video: Ecolab Food Safety Matters Webinar August 2015

In this video, special guest, Dr. Anna Starobin CP-FS, Ecolab senior scientist, global quick service restaurant (QSR) and food retail and leader of microbiology and food safety, discusses what biofilm is, where we see it and how it can be prevented through cleaning and sanitation processes in Ecolab's Food Safety Matters webinar, “Keeping it Clean in 2015: To Clean or Not to Clean? Prevention of Biofilm Formation.”

Environment

Banorte firma convenio con la Plataforma Mexicana de Carbono, MÉXICO2 para compromiso ambiental.

El pasado 25 de agosto, se llevó a cabo la firma del Convenio entre Banorte y la Plataforma Mexicana de Carbono MÉXICO2, para apoyar el Programa de Protección del Oso Negro en la Sierra de Zapalinamé en Coahuila. Dicha campaña socioambiental es desarrollada por la organización sin fines de lucro PROFAUNA (Protección de la Fauna Mexicana A.C.), la cual por 4 años recibirá una donación anual para realizar las actividades del programa, tal donativo se efectuará mediante el fideicomiso AyuDamos.

Environment

Banorte Signs Agreement with the Mexican Carbon Platform, MEXICO2 for Environmental Commitment

Last August 25, an agreement was signed between Banorte and the Mexican carbon platform, MEXICO2, to support the protection program for the black bear in the Zapaliname Mountains of Coahuila. This socio-environmental campaign was developed by the non-profit organization PROFAUNA (Protección de la Fauna Mexicana A.C.), which will receive an annual donation for 4 years through AyuDamos trust to support program activities.

Social Impact & Volunteering

CITGO Commemorates 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Environment

President's Pledge to Support Renewables Adds Punch to Clean Power Plan

President's Obama's support for the mainstreaming of solar energy will help ensure future generations enjoy cleaner air and a healthy planet.

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