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

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

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What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Social Impact & Volunteering

Alliance Data Associates Help Pick Up the Rubble for North Texas Tornado Victims

The day after Christmas, a tornado three and a half miles wide tore through neighborhoods in North Texas, damaging or destroying 1,110 homes and 35 businesses. More than 40 volunteers from Alliance Data's Plano office spent two mornings the past month clearing the rubble in one of the hardest hit neighborhoods.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Responsible Index Investing: Reimagining How to Access Returns

Environment

Sustainable Resolution Tip #5: Manage your Waste & Waist

It isn’t New Year’s without resolving to work out more and eat healthier. Planning your meals in advance can help you control calories and cut food waste. In your planning, perhaps you’ll think about using what’s in your pantry, buying only what you need, and repurposing leftover. Just a few years ago, Americans threw out over 74 billion pounds of food. Careful meal planning can help you save calories and our ‪#‎blueplanet.‪#‎SustainableResolutions

Environment

No, Coffee Pods Aren't Killing the Planet

Drowsy German bureaucrats in Hamburg will soon have one less option for a mid-afternoon caffeine jolt, after the city banned single-serve coffee machines such as Nespresso from government buildings.

Research, Reports & Publications

Is Waste a Resource in the Wrong Place?

Waste production is a serious problem for all American companies and industries. The largest 5,589 publically traded businesses in the United States sent 342 million metric tons of waste to landfills and incinerators in 2014. That is the equivalent of sending the weight of three Empire State Buildings to a landfill every day.

Environment

Ray C. Anderson Foundation is New Sponsor for “Talk with Green Guy” Show

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation is the new sponsor of “Talk with Green Guy,” a rapidly growing weekly show hosted by Eric Moncrief on WGST 640 AM, which airs locally Sunday mornings at 9:00 a.m. Eastern with podcasts available at www.greenguymedia.com.

Environment

Big Cat Week in Europe: How a Sculpture, a Hashtag and Selfies Are Helping Nat Geo Save Big Cats Around the World

Nat Geo Wild Europe launched its sixth annual Big Cat Week in February. Each year, Nat Geo Wild sheds light on the plight of big cats around the world with a week of premieres. More than a television event, Big Cat Week is an extension of the Big Cats Initiative (BCI), a long-term commitment by the National Geographic Society to stop poaching, save habitat and sound the call that big steps are needed to save big cats around the world. This global initiative actively supports on-the-ground conservation projects and education to help stem and eventually reverse the rapid disappearance of big-cat populations.

Environment

Equity and the Living Building Challenge

An essential part of building living communities isn’t just designing housing units with a low environmental impact, but making those housing units affordable for the communities they’re in.

Events, Media & Communications

Harry Pastuszek of PYXERA Global to Speak at Responsible Business Summit

Harry Pastuszek, Vice President of Enterprise and Community Development at PYXERA Global will speak at the 2016 Responsible Business Summit this June 7 and 8.For an advanced look at the Summit, Ethical Corporation is hosting a free live webinar with Timberland’s Sustainability Director and Maersk's Head of Responsible Procurement. Tune in Tuesday, March 1 at 10 am ET / 3 pm GMT.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. Is Giving $1.2 Million to the Easter Seals Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services to Support Military Transition Assistance Programming

The PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. is giving $1.2 million to the Easter Seals Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services to support military transition assistance programming.

Innovation & Technology

PwC Oscars Purpose Red Carpet

PwC is adding a unique spin to the red carpet this year. We'll ask social entrepreneurs, educators, fashion designers and professional sports players not about what or who they are wearing, but about their purpose.

Education

Women Building Futures Partners with Transcanada to Attract More Women into the Construction Trades

Women Building Futures partners with TransCanada to attract more women into the construction trades. TransCanada joins CLAC and Mammoet Canada Western as sponsors of the WBF Opportunities for Women in Construction Awareness Campaign (OFWIC).

Social Impact & Volunteering

The Power of WHY: The Key to Uniting Employees Around Your Company Vision [Webinar]

VolunteerMatch's Best Practice Network free webinar series is back! On March 18th, you’ll have the chance to learn how to unite your employees around your company vision and inspire them to take part in your cause work.

Social Impact & Volunteering

A Conversation About Impact

AT&T has long been a City Year champion, investing both in the national organization, as well as the community of Little Rock, Arkansas. As a team sponsor for four years, they have had an impact on many students, including this year’s senior class valedictorian, Hillary.

Events, Media & Communications

Ritz Carlton, Tata Consultancy Services, and IBM to Take the Stage at International Women's Day 2016

On March 7 - 8 at the United Nations and Microsoft's New York office, The Business of Inclusion: Global Prosperity through Women and Girls Empowerment will convene more than 500 public and private sector leaders to explore inclusive solutions that create opportunities for women and girls around the world.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Linking Corporate Social Responsibility to Business Goals

Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Cole Hamels

Cole Hamels hasn’t added an inch to his 6-foot-4 frame but his reach through The Hamels Foundation keeps extending its educational mission.

Events, Media & Communications

Taproot+ Webinar, Mar 2: What's the Best Way to Get Skilled Volunteers for Your Nonprofit?

"I do pro bono because I wanted to find ways to volunteer some of my time and thought that doing pro bono work could be fun and useful to nonprofits. When I do pro bono, I bring with me diverse professional experience working for global companies. I am driven by innovation and appreciate nothing more than bringing a team or organization to its full potential."

Health & Healthcare

Hershey Partners with Blommer Chocolate and Olam Cocoa to Build Health Center in Cote D’Ivoire

The Hershey Company partnered with cocoa suppliers Blommer Chocolate and Olam Cocoa to fund and build a community health center in Cote d’Ivoire.

Education

King Philippe Marks 500,000th Computer Donation by Arrow Electronics and Close the Gap

A half-million donated computers is a milestone—momentous enough to warrant a King’s attention.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Citi Foundation Announces $4.8 Million Investment in Summer Jobs Connect to Jumpstart Career Readiness of More than 2,000 Youth

Today, as part of the announcement of the Summer Opportunity Project and Champions of Change event at the White House, the Citi Foundation announced a $4.8 million grant to Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund to provide more than 2,100 low-income youth with summer jobs and access to financial education as part of Summer Jobs Connect. The program, a part of the Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress initiative, uses the opportunity of a first-employment experience to instill early career readiness lessons and positive financial behaviors for lifelong success.

Environment

Nestlé Waters North America Appoints Nelson Switzer to Lead Sustainability Efforts

The President and CEO of Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA), Tim Brown, is pleased to announce the appointment of well-known sustainability innovator Nelson Switzer as Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer.

Environment

Environmental Film Festival Announces 2016 Theme of “Parks: Protecting Wild”

The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, the nation’s largest and longest-running environmental film festival, announces that its 2016 theme is “Parks: Protecting Wild,” and will be presented in partnership with Subaru of America.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Emergency Response
    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  2. 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...
  3. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  4. 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...
  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. Environmental Sustainability
    Cisco is working not only for a more inclusive future, but a more environmentally sustainable one as well. Environmental issues like climate change...
  7. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  8. 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...
  9. SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights
    Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...
  10. Scotts Miracle-Gro | Community Enhancement
    Our work at The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation is to connect more people, in more places, to the life-enhancing benefits of gardens and greenspaces...
  11. Energy Transition
    Energy Transition Content
  12. Mary Kay Ash Foundation: Creating a Safer, Healthier World for Women
    In the U.S. and around the world, Mary Kay remains steadfast in its commitment to ending the cycle of domestic violence and finding cures for cancers...
  13. Protecting our planet
    We believe that people can only live their healthiest lives on a healthy planet. That’s why we reduce our environmental footprint by finding...
  14. Policy and Regulation
    Cascale shares insights regarding policy and regulation impacting the consumer goods industry, and highlights how it's supporting members prepare for...
  15. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...