Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Environment

P&G Accelerates Commitment on Responsible Forestry

Mar 26, 2021 12:00 PM ET

Procter & Gamble has established an ambition to achieve 100% Forest Stewardship Council® certification for wood pulp sourced for its Charmin, Puffs and Bounty products by 2030.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Chris deBarbadillo Rejoins Black & Veatch as Plant Optimization Practice Leader

Mar 26, 2021 11:45 AM ET

Known as an industry leader for her experience in advanced wastewater treatment technologies and innovation, Chris deBarbadillo has rejoined Black & Veatch as associate vice president and plant optimization practice leader.

Education

Celebrating Read Across America Day

Mar 26, 2021 11:45 AM ET

The Washington Reads Program partnered with Scholastic Book Fairs on National Read Across America Day to provide 100 Washington Reads schools in the DMV region with 2 book packages containing books on diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Yum! Brands Joins How2Recycle® Label Program

Mar 26, 2021 11:45 AM ET

How2Recycle, the leading recycling labeling system in the US and Canada, is excited to welcome Yum! Brands and their KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill brands into the How2Recycle label program.

Diversity & Inclusion

Women Making History: 5 Women Who Got Us to 5G

Mar 26, 2021 11:00 AM ET

As Women's History Month comes to a close, we look at the work five females have done for a promising future of 5G ahead.

Environment

Mohawk Group's Waterways Project Begins National Tour, Moving Design Forward Through Health and Wellbeing

Mar 26, 2021 10:35 AM ET

Mohawk Group announces the launch of its Waterways Project, a luxury mobile showcase featuring new products and innovations from Mohawk Group and Durkan.

Diversity & Inclusion

Compassion as a Management Tool in the Future of Work

Mar 26, 2021 10:15 AM ET

The COVID pandemic has affected us all, but not equally. Several studies emerging show more women have been economically impacted in the last year than we could have imagined.

Research, Reports & Publications

bp Publishes 2020 Sustainability Report: Reimagining Energy for People and Our Planet

Mar 26, 2021 10:00 AM ET

Today bp shares further detail on the sustainability frame underpinning its new strategy and introduces 10 new aims focused on improving people’s lives and caring for our planet. Read more in the 2020 sustainability report.

Events, Media & Communications

Tetra Tech's 2021 Spring Solid Waste Webinar Series

Mar 26, 2021 9:00 AM ET

Tetra Tech continues its 2021 Solid Waste Solutions Webinar Series this spring with a new line-up of great topics focused on emerging technologies and developments in the waste industry.

Diversity & Inclusion

Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership: Cultural Intelligence

Mar 26, 2021 9:00 AM ET

See how pro bono builds cultural intelligence, one of Deloitte's Six Traits of Inclusive Leadership, in this profile from Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership.

Green Infrastructure

The First Filling Station to Supply Bio-LNG and Bio-CNG in Northwest Italy Comes Online

Mar 25, 2021 5:00 PM ET

The collaboration between IVECO, a commercial vehicles brand of CNH Industrial N.V., ENGIE, and VULCANGAS has reached an important milestone, just a year after the inauguration of the filling station near IVECO’s global headquarters in Turin, Italy.

Green Infrastructure

Tenebris Fiber, Diode Ventures and JLC Infrastructure Begin Development on Dark Fiber Route in Northern Virginia

Mar 25, 2021 4:35 PM ET

Tenebris Fiber, a dark fiber provider in Virginia, has partnered with JLC Infrastructure (JLC), an infrastructure investor and asset management firm, and Diode Ventures, a global turnkey asset development company, to advance the development...

Environment

Janet, 11, in Zambia Celebrated World Water Day in the Best Way - with Clean Water

Mar 25, 2021 4:15 PM ET

Innovation & Technology

Personal Safety Is Not Only About Being Prepared. It's About Being Connected.

Mar 25, 2021 4:00 PM ET

During COVID, Wearsafe provided individuals the ability to stay connected with their loved ones when it was unsafe for them to be together.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Schneider Electric Supports Each Ambition of the Biden-Harris Climate Plan

Mar 25, 2021 4:00 PM ET

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Herbalife Nutrition and the Herbalife Nutrition Foundation Partner With the Asociacion Mexicana De Bancos De Alimentos to Help Eradicate Hunger and Provide Nutritious Food to Those in Need

Mar 25, 2021 3:30 PM ET

Herbalife Nutrition and The Herbalife Nutrition Foundation have formed a new partnership with the Asociacion Mexicana de Bancos de Alimentos (“BAMX”).

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bacardí® Legacy Cocktail Competition To Fund Creative Project Ideas via ‘El Coco’ Bartender Grants

Mar 25, 2021 3:15 PM ET

The grant will fund each competitor’s time to devise and develop a project or enterprise that supports the industry’s recovery, following the huge impact that the pandemic has had across the bartending world.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bacardí® Legacy Cocktail Competition Fondeará Proyectos Creativos a Través de ‘El Coco Grant’, Una Beca Para Bartenders

Mar 25, 2021 3:15 PM ET

La subvención financiará el tiempo de cada competidor para diseñar y desarrollar un proyecto o empresa que apoye la recuperación de la industria, luego del enorme impacto que la pandemia ha tenido en el mundo de la coctelería.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Alexion Achieves The KeepWell Mark For a Second Time!

Mar 25, 2021 3:00 PM ET

For the second time, Alexion received the Irish Business Employers Confederation’s (Ibec) KeepWell Mark™. Ibec is an evidence-based workplace wellbeing accreditation awarded to companies who successfully meet the standards of the framework.

Innovation & Technology

T‑Mobile Completes STIR/SHAKEN with ALL Major Carriers to Help Protect Customers from Scams and Spam

Mar 25, 2021 2:35 PM ET

T-Mobile is the first US wireless provider to work with all other major networks to implement STIR/SHAKEN to fight number spoofing and further protect customers from scammers.

Diversity & Inclusion

Women's Leadership and COVID-19: Spotlight on Shyama Ghosh

Mar 25, 2021 2:35 PM ET

Throughout March we’re profiling Clarivate women leaders, researchers and scientists. We’re proud of the powerful role that women at Clarivate have played in addressing COVID-19 and creating a more equitable STEM field post-pandemic.

Events, Media & Communications

Changing Our World and ONE HUNDRED Launch Forging Forward Virtual Summit

Mar 25, 2021 2:30 PM ET

As part of Changing Our World and ONE HUNDRED’s ongoing commitment to empower the nonprofit and corporate purpose communities to accomplish more through collaboration, April 14 – 16 the agencies will welcome prominent leaders from across the healthcare, higher education, technology, foundation, nonprofit and corporate spheres to the Forging Forward Virtual Summit.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Transforming Business for Resilience

Mar 25, 2021 2:30 PM ET

Christine Diamente, Managing Director of Business Transformation at BSR, shares three insights on how business can be more resilient.

Environment

Duke Energy Foundation Gives $100,000 to New 'Story of Florida Water' Exhibit at Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville

Mar 25, 2021 2:15 PM ET

Duke Energy Foundation Gives $100,000 as the Florida Museum of Natural History looks to the past, present and future as it tells “The Story of Florida Water.”

Environment

Paris 2024 Commits to Staging Climate-Positive Olympic and Paralympic Games

Mar 25, 2021 2:15 PM ET

The Paris 2024 Board of Directors has approved the Games’ climate strategy, which commits Paris 2024 to organising the world’s first Olympic and Paralympic Games with a positive contribution to the climate.