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Responsible Production & the Circular Economy | Cascale

A Defining Moment for Global, APAC Apparel Policy

Howard Kwong, senior manager of public affairs, APAC, at Cascale, shares perspective on this defining moment for global due diligence and sustainability reporting, especially in the APAC. Cascale’s new report details the state of play.

Corporate Responsibility

KeyBank Delavan-Grider Farmers Market to Return to East Buffalo on Thursday May 28th

KeyBank

Health & Healthcare

CVS Health: Beyond Medication: A Whole Person Approach to Lasting Weight Loss

CVS Health

Corporate Responsibility

How Much Money Does Your Company’s Emergency Assistance Fund Actually Need?

America's Charities

Research & Reports

Baker Hughes 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report: 2025 Sustainability Performance Highlights

Baker Hughes Energy Services LLC

AI & Technology

Macao Sustainability Leader Sustaincia Joins the Sands Cares Accelerator

Las Vegas Sands

Corporate Responsibility

From Guide to Senior TPM: Meet Deidre Murzynski

GoDaddy

Health & Healthcare

CVS Health - You’re Not Alone: Why Maternal Mental Health Matters

CVS Health

Environment

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable Marks 20 Years of Advancing Environmental Sustainability Through Industry Collaboration

Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable

Featured Brands

How a Dangerous Collapse Led One Woman to a Blood Pressure Procedure

Heart conditions can impact anyone, anywhere, and often without warning. Fifty-nine-year-old Ana Florencio experienced this first-hand when what began as an otherwise typical day quickly turned into one of the scariest moments of her life.

Does Screen Time Affect Behavior? Why Using It as a Reward Can Backfire

A cognitive specialist and parenting coach explains how screen habits can shape kids’ motivation and emotions—and shares simple ways to reset the pattern.

Entrepreneur Fund Announces 26 Recipients of Rural Field to Market Grant

The Entrepreneur Fund (EFund), with support from the Wells Fargo Foundation, announced the 26 recipients of the Rural Field to Market Grant, a one-time funding opportunity designed to strengthen small- to mid-size farm and food businesses across EFund’s Minnesota service area.

The Power of Collaboration – Building a Circular Future in Memphis

Imagine a world where "waste" doesn't exist, and the things we use every day get a new lease on life. This isn't a far-off dream; it's the heart of the circular economy, and it's happening right here in Memphis.

Guiding Stars: Healthy Habits for Perimenopause & Menopause

Perimenopause and menopause have become a more open and widely discussed life stage, with many women seeking practical, evidence-based guidance and support. Declining estrogen, the marker of this transition, influences a woman’s health in several ways that go beyond hot flashes.

Powering the Businesses That Power America: Coffeehouses Coast to Coast

A good coffee shop does more than serve caffeine. It keeps mornings moving and creates space for community connections —sometimes for five minutes in a drive‑thru line or sometimes for hours at a shared table.

Before, During and After: How T-Mobile Shows Up for First Responders and Communities Across America at Every Stage

When disaster strikes, first responders don’t have time to think about connectivity. It’s either there or it’s not.

For Check for Cancer Champion David Pollack, Early Cancer Detection Is Personal

David Pollack is best known as a former University of Georgia football star, NFL linebacker and longtime college football analyst.

LG Electronics Named To ‘Forbes ‘Accessibility 200’ List

Global home appliance and consumer electronics innovator LG Electronics has been named to the 2026 Forbes “Accessibility 200” list, which recognizes leading global organizations driving innovation and impact in accessibility-related fields.

The Trust for the Americas and the Organization of American States Present the 2025 Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award to Mastercard

The Trust for the Americas and the Organization of American States (OAS) presented Mastercard with the 2025 Corporate Citizen of the Americas (CCA) Award during a ceremony and luncheon in the Miranda Room at OAS Headquarters.

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Environment

Dan Austin: 88Bikes

A generation ago, the dream of owning a bicycle was one shared by a vast number of American kids.

Energy & Infrastructure

How Business is Protecting Scarce Natural Resources

Every year Earth Overshoot Day, the date by which humanity would have exhausted our natural annual budget if everybody in the world lived like EU residents, comes earlier.

Philanthropy

Smithfield Foods Donates 40,000 Pounds of Protein to Utah Food Bank

Today, Smithfield Foods, Inc. and Smith’s Food & Drug, joined forces to donate more than 40,000 pounds of protein to the Utah Food Bank.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Martin Voke Champions the Spirit of Diversity

In the fairly male-dominated spirits industry, Bacardi's Martin Voke says that making women part of the conversation is vital in helping break down stereotypes and break through glass ceilings.

Philanthropy

Duke Energy Grants $205,000 to Seven Projects to Eliminate Blight, Drive Redevelopment and Job Growth in Greater Cincinnati’s Urban Cores

Duke Energy has announced $205,000 in grants to seven redevelopment projects that aim to stimulate growth, job creation and further investments in Greater Cincinnati’s urban cores. The grants are part of the company’s Urban Revitalization initiative, which has awarded nearly $2.4 million in grants to 72 projects in southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky since its launch in 2011.

Awards & Rankings

AIDAnova Is the First Cruise Ship to Receive the “Blue Angel” Certification for Its Eco-Friendly Ship Design

AIDA Cruises has been awarded the “Blue Angel”, German federal government’s ecolabel, for AIDAnova’s environmentally friendly ship design.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

National Financial Awareness Day Survey: Cash is Still King with Teens When it Comes to Purchases

Teens may love technology, but most still rely on cash when it comes to purchases and getting money from mom and dad. In fact, 80 percent of teens who receive money from parents or caregivers say it is in the form of cash and 75 percent of teens say they have made purchases in cash. Despite this, budgeting apps are gaining in popularity.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Comcast Announces Initiative With Dell Technologies to Help Close Digital Divide

Companies to give thousands of free laptops to low-income students and seniors; Dell Technologies also to fund computer lab upgrades at nonprofits across the United States.

Education & Workforce Development

Rewarding Creative Leadership in Schools Through Crayola Program

In 2018, Crayola partnered with the National Association of Elementary School Principals to present its ninth annual grant awards program, Champion Creatively Alive Children.

Corporate Responsibility

What It’s Like to Be the Custodian of Johnson & Johnson's Over 130-Year History

Not all companies have a Chief Historian. Then again, not all companies have such a long, rich heritage of innovation. Margaret Gurowitz explains the highlights—and delights—of her unique job.

Philanthropy

Duke Energy Awards More Than $103,000 in Grants for Workforce Education, Training in Indiana

Duke Energy has awarded grants totaling $103,397 to six Indiana organizations to promote workforce development and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education opportunities.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Viacom's Marva Smalls on Leading With Diversity

Marva Smalls is something of a corporate politician for diversity. She spends her time crafting and implementing Viacom’s diversity policies and advocating for a culture of inclusion and belonging for all employees.

AI & Technology

HP’s Christoph Schell Dreams in 3D

Any parent whose child needs orthodontia knows that there are two kinds of pain that come with the traditional teeth straightening process. There’s the unavoidable pain of moving canines and cuspids, and then there’s the financial pain of paying for it.

Energy & Infrastructure

Green City Growers Names Christopher Grallert as Company President

Green City Growers (GCG) has announced the promotion of Christopher Grallert to the position of Company President.

Inclusion & Opportunity

How a Long-lost Holiday Photo Became a Symbol of a New China

In the new film "China Lost and Found," the subject of a photo discovers he's become the famous face of a particular moment in China's history.

Energy & Infrastructure

Ecocentricity Blog: The Energy-Water Collision

Water is often too hot on first pass as coolant in energy production. Another challenge is droughts; the kind predicted to be more frequent as the climate changes. #energywaternexus #climatechange

Energy & Infrastructure

Coming Soon from CBRE…The Place Makers – Episode 3

Across Asia Pacific, Architects, Developers and Investors are creatively answering the challenges of urbanization and population growth by creating spaces that people are happier living and working in.

Philanthropy

Unique Back-to-School Campaign Expands reach of LG’s ‘Life’s Good: Experience Happiness’ Initiative

With the 2019-20 school year beginning across the country, LG Electronics USA is expanding its “Life’s Good: Experience Happiness” initiative to more schools exposing a broader audience to the scientific principles that lead to happiness.

Awards & Rankings

Tetra Tech Receives Esri Special Achievement in GIS Award

Esri, a global market leader in GIS software, recognized Tetra Tech with a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award at the 2019 Esri User Conference held on July 10th in San Diego, California.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Fifth Third Bancorp Introduces New Investment Banking Capabilities for Renewable Energy Industry

Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB) announced today that Fifth Third Securities Inc. has hired Timothy Beach, Ari Citrin and Oliver Janssen as managing directors to lead its new Renewable Energy Investment Banking Group.

Events

Reporting19: New Speakers, New Sessions – Exciting New Updates

Ethical Corporation have just published the newly updated brochure for this year’s market-leading Sustainability Reporting and Communications Summit (16-17 Oct, Amsterdam)

Energy & Infrastructure

GM Partners With Qmerit to Create a More Accessible At-Home Charging Solution

GM recently announced a partnership with Qmerit to enable electric vehicle owners to more easily find and obtain quotes from pre-approved EV charging station installers. The partnership will give Chevrolet EV owners a seamless way to find electricians to install the charging equipment, making charging their EV an easy part of their daily routine.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Reinventing Banana Production in Ecuador

Philanthropy

Volunteers Help Build Homes for Low-income Veterans

Neither thieves nor triple-digit temperatures could deter Southern California Edison employees and volunteers from their mission to help house veterans.

Corporate Responsibility

Sappi Collaborates With University of Maine on Innovative Paper Applications

New devices made from patterned release paper— for use in biotechnical applications—were included as one of five discoveries showcased at the University of Maine earlier this year, as part of their Maine Innovation, Research and Technology Accelerator (MIRTA) program. The innovative devices were developed in partnership with Sappi’s Westbrook Technology Center.

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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...

Novata News

Communicating key news and updates about Novata.

Policy and Regulation

Cascale shares insights regarding policy and regulation impacting the consumer goods industry, and highlights how it's supporting members prepare for...

Accelerating access to healthcare technology

We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...

Policy and Advocacy

Policy and Advocacy content from IWBI - International Well Building Institute

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

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...

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...

TERC

Tire Emissions Research Conference Campaign

GoDaddy Empower

GoDaddy Empower is our signature social impact program, designed to help emerging entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses online.