Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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HPRC Impact Report

Health & Healthcare | Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council

HPRC Publishes Inaugural Impact Report: Paving the Way for Sustainable Healthcare Plastics

The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) is thrilled to announce the publication of its inaugural Impact Report for 2024.
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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Europe Leads the Way on Scope 3 Emissions: What Investors and Companies Need To Know

CSRHub

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Cocoa Market Turmoil: How Hershey Is Innovating Through Unprecedented Challenges

The Hershey Company

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sustainable Strategies for Grocery Growth

Tetra Pak

Energy

Stop Buying Energy Infrastructure. Start Buying Results.

Veolia North America

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Why Sustainability Is the Smartest Investment in an Uncertain Trade Landscape

DP World

Energy

Energy for a Better Future: Entergy’s Growth and Resiliency Strategy

Entergy Corporation

Energy

AllianceBernstein: Power Play: How To Invest Smarter in the Race for Electrification

AllianceBernstein

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sysco 2024 Sustainability Report: At the Heart of One Planet One Table

Sysco Corporation

Diversity & Inclusion

BCtA at 10: Inclusivity for All in an Ambitious New Call to Action

A decade ago, Business Call to Action (BCtA) was launched with just 18 companies at the helm. During our inauguration, then-prime minister of the UK Gordon Brown said: “Business Call to Action is a landmark opportunity for global business leaders to come together to develop new and innovative ways to spread growth, prosperity and opportunity across the world.”

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Environment

Spring Has Sprung: It’s Time to Refresh EHS in Your Workplace

Revitalize EHS at your workplace after the long winter dormancy! Read Antea Group’s top springtime EHS tips.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Timberland Celebrates Employee Service Champions with Annual “40s Club” Breakfast

Timberland recently celebrated 128 global headquarters employees who served all of their available volunteer hours in 2018. Through the brand’s Path of Service™ program, employees are given up to 40 paid hours each year to serve in the community. Those who serve all of their available hours earn membership in the highly-coveted “40s Club.”

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Lessons from Collaboration: How One Nonprofit Scaled Up Nutrition Education

The collaboration between the Walmart Foundation and the nonprofit organization FoodCorps illustrates how companies can lend both their financial firepower and their expertise to help nonprofits scale up their missions.

Diversity & Inclusion

National Urban League: Dedicated to Economic Empowerment

‘Viewpoints’ invites guest authors from outside of Wells Fargo to share an important perspective related to their work. Today, we welcome Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League.

Environment

Join HPRC for Hospital and Recycler Roundtables

This May, HPRC will host two events focused on understanding and taking advantage of the valuable plastic waste created by healthcare facilities.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

United Way, Subaru Unveil New Reading Oasis at Forest Hill Elementary School in Celebration of Read Across America Week

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and Subaru of America, Inc. celebrated Read Across America Week on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, by unveiling a new reading oasis for students at Forest Hill Elementary School.

Energy

Moving Michigan Forward with Electric Vehicles

The following is a guest blog by Patti Poppe, president and chief executive officer of CMS Energy and Consumers Energy.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are in the fast lane across the U.S. That’s why we’re working to create the infrastructure that Michigan EV drivers need — today and in the years to come.

I was privileged to discuss how our industry is working to electrify transportation at CERAWeek, one of the world’s premier energy events.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Ecolab-GreenBiz Survey Finds Corporations Still Struggle to Translate Water Goals Into Action on the Ground

There is a growing sense of urgency about water scarcity as a business risk, but almost half of all companies don’t have a plan to achieve their water reduction targets. That is the key finding of a new survey conducted by Ecolab Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services, and the sustainability news and research organization GreenBiz.

Responsible Production & Consumption

United Wind and Smithfield Foods Announce 3MW WindLease™ Agreement

United Wind, the nation's leading distributed wind energy developer, announced today it has signed an agreement with Smithfield Foods, Inc., a global food company and the world's largest hog producer and pork processor, to power dozens of Smithfield hog farms in Colorado with on-site wind energy.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Aligning Resources for Good: Incorporating SRI Into a Philanthropic Framework

As interest in SRI investing continues to grow in the philanthropic sector, we’ve given much thought to how a foundation can apply the Framework to strategies that use all of its capital in order to create positive impact. Each of the three Framework elements can help define an SRI investing strategy. Read about the 3 Core Elements of the Framework in the article

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Research, Reports & Publications

Ensuring Business Growth and Positively Contributing to Society

Nestlé is the world’s largest food and beverage company. With over 2000 brands, Nestlé products are sold across 190 countries and range from global icons to local favorites.

Education

Sodexo Partners With Saladworks to Bring Healthy, Fast Casual to Universities in the U.S.

Sodexo Inc. and Saladworks, the nation’s leading salad-centric franchise, have joined together to bring crave-worthy salads to colleges and universities across the U.S. Saladworks offers fresh, made-to-order salads and a variety of complimentary menu items to include warm grain bowls, wraps and soups. Items can be ordered in-person or online for rapid pick-up or delivery where available. Saladworks focuses on offering guests choice and control in every way they interact with the brand from how to engage with a location to what goes into their salad.

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Environment

Turning Textile Effluent Into Life-Sustaining Water: A History of Gildan’s Biotop

In the spirit of World Water Day, Gildan celebrates the 17th anniversary of its Biotop wastewater treatment system, which treats water in a natural process using only bacteria, sunlight and gravity.

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Media & Communications

Verizon Commits to Increased Visibility for People with Disabilities

Verizon, Getty Images and the National Disability Leadership Alliance are creating The Disability Collection, a growing collection of stock images that break stereotypes and authentically portray people with disabilities in everyday life.

PepsiCo

Environment

PepsiCo Recycling Program in Latin America Offers Ecoin Incentives to Consumers

PepsiCo has launched an initiative to promote recycling across Latin America and the Caribbean. The company will use consumer incentives and a rewards program in the hopes of increasing recycling; the program, “Recycling with a Purpose,” will be expanded to 10 countries in Latin America over the next two years, the company says.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Alliance Data Presents a Special Evening With Five for Fighting

My Possibilities (MP) a North Texas for-cause organization invites you to attend A Special Evening with Five for Fighting, Sunday, April 7 at the Winspear Opera House.

Discovery Education

Health & Healthcare

Novo Nordisk and Discovery Education Award Three “Super Health, Super You” National Community Health Challenge Winners $10,000 in Prizes

Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company, and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, today announced the Super Health, Super You Community Health Challenge winners in celebration of thriving, healthy and active school communities across the United States.

Education

The Significant and Cyclical Literacy Crisis Facing America Today Begins With Our Children

It’s a startling fact that 25 million children in the U.S. cannot read proficiently and by the fourth grade, 63% of children are reading below grade level. There is a significant and cyclical literacy crisis facing America today and it begins with our children.

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Media & Communications

Webinar | Global Energy Outlook: 2019 Trends, Impacts & Opportunities

This webinar will cover (in varying degrees) political influences, commodity volatility, non-commodity shifts, weather impacts, emerging market opportunities, and supplier differentiation.

Sea Change Radio

Environment

Crosstown Traffic: The Preven Report

They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to two brothers who are trying to make a little noise for the issues they care about through citizen journalism.

Environment

Using Sunlight to Lower Bills for Low- to Moderate-Income Families

It’s important to Monica Sirri to cook for her family — including her three adult children and four grandchildren — when they visit every weekend. “It’s the main thing to stay together,” Sirri said. “I have proof, because they love me and stay with me.” But she feels bad that she has to ask her family to not turn on the air conditioning during extreme temperatures in their Van Nuys, California, home. “It’s hard for us to pay in the summer and winter, but we need air conditioning and lights,” she said. And it’s even harder since Sirri’s husband has a disability and Sirri has gone from working full time to part time so that she can take care of him.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Nourishing Communities: How T. Rowe Price Works With Local Organizations to End Global Hunger

Approximately 11% of the world's inhabitants (some 821 million people) face chronic hunger, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. T. Rowe Price, however, is committed to supporting global hunger relief— the firm maintains alliances across the globe with organizations such as City Harvest London, Care and Share Food Bank, San Francisco Marin Food Bank, Feeding Tampa Bay, and the Maryland Food Bank.

Environment

P&G and Walmart Launch Global Clean Drinking Water Initiative

The two important companies work together to help provide clean drinking water to children and their families. Walmart International will collaborate with “1 purchase = 1 liter of clean water” in the countries where the firm is present. Buyers can contribute to one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Millions of Volunteers Will Transform Public Spaces Into Beautiful Places During the Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup

It’s the first day of spring, which means it’s time to kick off the annual Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup®, the nation’s largest community improvement program. Through this far-reaching effort, which takes place from March 20 through June 20, national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful and its network of more than 600 community-based affiliates and partner organizations host cleanups, green-ups and fix-ups in more than 20,000 communities across the country, engaging more than 1.5 million volunteers and participants.

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    To help break cycles of inequality, we empower the next generation to reach their full potential through higher education.

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  15. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
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