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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

Events, Media & Communications

Brown-Forman Providing $10,000 for Safe Rides During the Holiday Season

To help everyone to have a safe holiday season, Brown-Forman is providing up to $10,000 of safe rides to encourage people to plan ahead and keep drunk drivers off of the roads.

Environment

Students Translate Environmental Learning into Community Action

In November, GM GREEN students from Southeast Michigan attended a Student Congress. Organized by the Clinton River Watershed Council, a nonprofit advocacy group and GM GREEN partner, the event gave students an opportunity to share their environmental investigations with peers from other areas within the watershed and to think about the positive impact they can have on their local environment.

Environment

Protecting What’s Irreplaceable With Guns...and Brands

Several years ago, I visited the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Northern Kenya. Lewa’s owner’s goal is to set an example of how wildlife can be even more valuable as a source of tourism than for sale on the black-market, providing a model throughout Africa. I was there to assess potential branding opportunities. Virgin Air had committed to a corridor for migrating elephants. Lewa hoped there were others.

Environment

Proposed Risk Management Program Regulations on the Way

Prompted by the massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Plant located north of Waco, Texas, in 2013, President Obama has issued Executive Order 13650, Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security (EO 13650).

Education

A Reminder From DSI

Social Impact & Volunteering

Holiday Roadway Safety Message from Republic Services

Millions of Americans are expected to take a road trip this holiday season, according to AAA. With so many motorists out and about, to include waste collection trucks operating throughout the holidays, we can each do our part to keep roadways safe this season.

Research, Reports & Publications

Domtar on its Way to Achieving World Class Safety Performance

Domtar ended 2014 with a record low incident rate.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

RSF Social Finance Reflects on NC’s Shared Gifting

What is the best way to distribute money amongst a group a non-profits? This is a question that foundations and donors struggle with on a regular basis.

Research, Reports & Publications

Integrity at Northern Trust

“Northern Trust has a heritage of acting with the highest ethics. The utmost honesty. And unfailing reliability. We have the wisdom earned through generations of relationships. The stability to weather change and uncertainty. And the insight to understand that diversity makes us stronger. For 125 years, our integrity has remained intact. And we have no intention of that changing."

Health & Healthcare

Novo Nordisk: The Five Most Popular Sustainability Stories of 2015!

Throughout the year, Novo Nordisk shared stories and videos telling the actions and initiatives that demonstrate the company’s commitment to financial, environmental and social responsibility. Here is a recap of the five stores that received the most clicks!

Events, Media & Communications

Last Day to Save $500 | International Corporate Citizenship Conference

Take advantage of the best rates on registration for the 2016 International Corporate Citizenship Conference, which expire at midnight tonight. Join 600+ of your corporate citizenship peers on March 20-22 in Atlanta, Georgia as we discuss the growing challenges facing our world today.

Events, Media & Communications

UC Davis–Mars Innovation Institute Holds “Solution Summit” in California

With the population growing and the climate changing, our food, agriculture and health systems are facing increasing strain. To do something about this, Mars, Incorporated co-founded the Innovation Institute for Food and Health earlier this year with the University of California, Davis. On December 2 and 3, the Institute hosted the two-day Solution Summit—a series of events in California to explore ways to address these challenges.

Diversity & Inclusion

Girl Geek Dinner Serves up NetSuite's Commitment to Diversity

When a colleague attended the Amazon Web Services conference in Las Vegas in 2012, he was struck when he looked around at a session entitled “AWS Security” and noticed that among the roughly 500 people in the room, there was not a single woman.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

California Resources Corporation Teams Up With Nonprofit First Book to Distribute Books to Kern County Area Children In Need

California Resources Corporation (NYSE: CRC), an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company, has joined nonprofit social enterprise First Book to deliver books to children in need across Kern County.

Events, Media & Communications

3BL Media Webinar to Share Trends and Best Practices in Sustainability Reporting

Social Impact & Volunteering

Bloomberg BNA Supports DC Affordable Law Firm by Providing Access to Bloomberg Law Technology Platform At No Cost

Bloomberg BNA today announced it will be providing complimentary access to Bloomberg Law to the DC Affordable Law Firm (DCALF). Bloomberg Law, a leading all-in-one technology platform for the legal industry, will provide its suite of products with no charge to DCALF, which offers affordable, high-quality legal services to Washington, D.C. residents who do not qualify for free legal aid, as well as small businesses and nonprofits in the District. An independent nonprofit with 501(c)(3) status, DCALF is a collaboration launched by Georgetown University Law Center, Arent Fox LLP, and DLA Piper LLP.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Rates of Hunger in Our Nation Are Holding Steady at All-time Highs

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Freeport-McMoRan Receives Wildlife Habitat Council Award

The Morenci Mine in Arizona received a Bat Conservation Action Award from the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC), presented in partnership with Bat Conservation International for outstanding bat preservation and education efforts.

Innovation & Technology

Inaugural “Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg” Speaker Series Welcomes Y Combinator

“Tech entrepreneurship is close to my heart,” said Michael R. Bloomberg as we welcomed more than 150 members of the NYC technology community for the inaugural Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg speaker series.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Partnership Brings National Institutional Capital to Resident-Owned Manufactured Home Communities

The country’s leading lender to resident-owned manufactured home communities has secured millions in national institutional capi,tal, a breakthrough in the history of CDFI-financed resident-owned community preservation.

Environment

Climate Change Labels On Gas Pumps Are a Low Cost Way to Inform Public

A simple, low-cost way exists to raise the public’s awareness about climate change and its impacts. It’s a label on gas pumps; Robert Shirkey, a Canadian lawyer, came up with the idea. His goal is for people to understand the threat climate change poses.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Sanofi Pasteur Contributes Generously to United Way of Monroe Campaign

At today’s December 2015 United Way of Monroe County community meeting, representatives of Sanofi Pasteur announced the highest company campaign total to date to a packed room of United Way volunteers, staff, partner agencies, and other supporters of the United Way.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Celebrating the First Year of Bloomberg Startup in London

This week, the Bloomberg Philanthropy & Engagement team, Chairman Peter Grauer and 100 Best of Bloomberg volunteers took more than 1,000 students from 16 London schools to a special theater performance to celebrate the culmination of the first year of the Bloomberg Startup program in the UK.

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    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
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  4. KeyBank: Responsible Banking
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  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. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  7. 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...
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  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. Policy and Regulation
    Cascale shares insights regarding policy and regulation impacting the consumer goods industry, and highlights how it's supporting members prepare for...
  12. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  13. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  14. Responsible Investing
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    Join us as we travel the world to uncover real stories of impact—from landfills and energy transition to workplace safety, emerging contaminants, and...