Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Diversity & Inclusion

Women’s History Month – Looking Back to Chart a Path Forward

Mar 13, 2018 2:20 PM ET

March means saying goodbye to winter, turning our clocks ahead, watching the best of college basketball and celebrating Women’s History Month. In 1987, Congress declared March as National Women’s History Month to challenge us to reflect upon and recognize the achievements – great and small – of American women.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Reflections on India

Mar 13, 2018 2:15 PM ET

It was hard to imagine what sort of impact my first trip to India would have on me, a 16 year-old high school student from the United States. I traveled there earlier this year with a team from PYXERA Global, a Washington DC-based nonprofit, to visit development projects in the northern region of the country. Over the course of eight days, we visited the hectic city of Mumbai, rural farms and villages at the height of the dry season near Udaipur, the historic and exotic city of Jaipur, and the country’s bustling capital, New Delhi.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Superheroes Unite to Protect the Future of Children Diagnosed With Cancer

Mar 13, 2018 2:10 PM ET

Superheroes Unite to Protect the Future of Children Diagnosed with Cancer. How Your Business Can be the Ultimate Sidekick to Help CureSearch Make Treatment Possible and Cures Probable for Children with Cancer.

Environment

Huntington Beach Ospreys Get a Home Improvement

Mar 13, 2018 2:00 PM ET

Green Infrastructure

The Ray Receives Additional Funding

Mar 13, 2018 2:00 PM ET

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation will grant an additional $2 million to The Ray over the next two years for research, pilot projects and innovative technologies that have the potential to shape transportation infrastructure. The foundation carries on the legacy of Ray C. Anderson, founder and former chair of Interface Inc., a flooring company committed to sustainability.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bloomberg Hosts 5th Annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit

Mar 13, 2018 11:45 AM ET

On Saturday, March 3, Bloomberg hosted its 5th annual Startup Young Women’s Leadership Summit, convening 500 high school and college-aged girls at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a day of networking and mentoring. More than 200 employees in the Bloomberg Startup program joined together with students from 34 diverse partner organizations, including CUNY’s Macaulay Honor College, the Young Women’s Leadership Network, PENCIL, and our partner school University Heights High School, Girls Who Invest, the Ghetto Film School, and other high schools that participate in our FIRST Robotics programs.

Sustainable Development Goals

RMI Deploys New Approaches for Due Diligence

Mar 13, 2018 11:30 AM ET

he Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), formerly the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI), a coalition of leading companies dedicated to improving the security and human rights conditions in their minerals supply chains, today announced new tools to enable responsible sourcing from conflict-affected and high-risk areas.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Marfan Foundation Helps Baby Andy Progress Through His Journey With Neonatal Marfan Syndrome

Mar 13, 2018 11:30 AM ET

Learning that your child has a disorder is very scary. Read how one family has coped with their sons Neonatal Marfan syndrome diagnoses, and learn how your company and its employees can help today!

Environment

5 Expert Insights Food & Beverage Companies Can Use to Inspire Sustainability Efforts

Mar 13, 2018 11:10 AM ET

Antea Group provides insights to help food and beverage companies gain a fresh perspective and find inspiration for their sustainability strategy.

Environment

Amid Transition to Clean Energy, Utilities Tackle Water Conservation

Mar 13, 2018 11:05 AM ET

Last month, Jackson-based Consumers Energy pledged to save another billion gallons of water over the next five years beyond the savings seen by closing seven coal plants in 2016. While the goal is part of the company’s broader clean energy and environmental pledge over the next two decades, it also highlights an overlooked aspect of the energy sector: The industry is a major consumer of water.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

NBCUniversal Leads Sustainable Production at the 2017 EMA Awards

Mar 13, 2018 11:00 AM ET

NBCUniversal was awarded the most Environmental Media Award (EMA) Green Seals of any other producing studio.

NBCUniversal kept its lead in sustainable production by being awarded the most Environmental Media Award (EMA) Green Seals of any other producing studio.

Environment

Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council Begins Mixed Flexibles Recyclability Assessment

Mar 13, 2018 11:00 AM ET

HPRC commences a project to determine viable strategies for recycling mixed flexible plastic packaging currently discarded as hospital waste.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

When Disaster Strikes: Companies Plan for Employee Catastrophic Assistance

Mar 13, 2018 10:55 AM ET

Innovation & Technology

Share INNOVATION 6 Super Sustainable Johnson & Johnson Sites Around the World

Mar 13, 2018 10:50 AM ET

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Come on Down!

Mar 13, 2018 10:30 AM ET

I want to ask the exact same question of all of us, whether a gameshow contestant or just a normal person – why do so many people want a car? For anyone reading out there, and I’m serious about this, I want to know if you have the same childhood memory. I mean, I can’t be the only one. So please, sound off in the comments if this rings a bell or two.

Media & Communications

Environmental and Engineering Solutions Expands Sustainability Consulting Services

Mar 13, 2018 10:00 AM ET

Environmental and Engineering Solutions, Inc. (EES) announced today that it is expanding its service offerings to include the CurrentState™ Sustainability Audit. EES currently offers sustainable facilities management with environmental, health, and safety consulting. The addition of the audit will deepen their ability to address the strategic sustainability performance of clients.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

INFOGRAPHIC | Domtar's The Paper Trail: Meeting the Market’s Evolving Needs for Supply Chain Transparency

Mar 13, 2018 10:00 AM ET

As global supply chains continue to grow in complexity, it’s getting harder for consumers to know where the products they use every day actually come from, much less the deeper details associated with their manufacture. Domtar’s supply chain transparency tool, The Paper Trail®, presents the environmental, social and economic impacts of its pulp and paper products, providing customer the transparency they deserve.

Energy

Report: Cities of All Sizes Can Achieve Sustainable Energy Solutions

Mar 13, 2018 9:45 AM ET

The U.S. is one of the biggest nations facing climate disparity right now, since the Trump administration chose to pull the country out of the global Paris Agreement last summer. As the federal government's support for climate issues lags, however, U.S. cities have vowed to uphold the charter's principles — and commitment to climate hasn't stopped there.

Diversity & Inclusion

VIDEO | Advice from Alliance Data's Female Leaders on International Women's Day, Part 2

Mar 13, 2018 9:30 AM ET

Alliance Data has been recognized for our commitment to diversity at all levels. We asked a few of our female leaders to share some of the advice they'd give their younger selves, in honor of International Women's Day.

Health & Healthcare

Meet the Scientist: Julie M. Lade, Scientist in the Pharmacokinetics & Drug Metabolism Department

Mar 13, 2018 9:25 AM ET

I am a junior scientist working in the Pharmacokinetics & Drug Metabolism (PKDM) department at Amgen for just over a year now. On a normal day, I try to best allocate my time between performing experiments in the lab, analyzing data that I or others have generated that may inform the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of a candidate compound and participating in team meetings with other scientists across functions at Amgen to disseminate this knowledge to help move a program forward.

Research, Reports & Publications

How Barclays Uses Inclusive Financial Systems to Promote Economic and Social Progress

Mar 13, 2018 9:20 AM ET

In 2017 Barclays helped empower 205,180 people through a range of financial and digital skills initiatives.

Environment

VIDEO | Introducing a Creative Collaboration Between The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation and Globally Renowned Environmental Photographer Andrew Mann

Mar 13, 2018 9:15 AM ET

A new conservation docuseries commissioned by The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation will go live on World Water Day, March 22. The docuseries captures the haunting beauty of America’s most fragile watersheds, under stress from harmful algal blooms, and highlights the bold steps we are taking to solve this crisis.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

2018 King Khalid Responsible Competitiveness Award Applications Now Open

Mar 13, 2018 9:10 AM ET

The King Khalid Foundation has opened the application process for the tenth annual Responsible Competitiveness (RC) Award, which honors and recognizes leading sustainability and corporate responsibility business practices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The application can be access through the KKF website (http://www.kkf.org.sa/ar/Pages/default.aspx) and will remain open until May 10th, 2018.

Responsible Production & Consumption

SCS Certifies Manuelita, First Producer of Biodiesel Palm in Latin America to ISCC

Mar 13, 2018 9:00 AM ET

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Investing for Good: Embracing the Long Journey

Mar 13, 2018 8:55 AM ET

It’s not every day that a CEO and CFO talk about investing millions of dollars into a part of the business that doesn’tgenerate direct profits. But that’s exactly what we did when we took advantage of the recent U.S. tax reform to make a focused investment – half a billion dollars – into our Center for Inclusive Growth.