Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Education

A Passion For Education: Aaron McLean, AT&T and Udacity

Jun 21, 2016 3:15 PM ET

My name is Aaron McLean. I’ve worked at AT&T for 17 years as a web developer and architect. In fall 2014, our group was in need of high-quality, low-cost training and certification. While we had online training, we needed more specific certifications within our software-centric network environment. Then one day, an email was sent to us from John Donovan (our Chief Technology Officer at the time), asking us to check out Udacity.com.

Energy

Utilities Can Better Secure Customer Relationships by Offering More Distributed Energy Resources

Jun 21, 2016 3:00 PM ET

As falling costs for distributed energy resources reduce the barriers to entry, new players like solar and battery storage developers are establishing relationships with utility customers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Social Enterprise from Cameroon Wins Creating Shared Value Prize 2016

Jun 21, 2016 3:00 PM ET

At the Creating Shared Value Global Forum in Abidjan, Nestlé announced the winner of the Creating Shared Value [CSV] Prize 2016: Agro-Hub from Cameroon is the new prize laureate and Natural Extracts Industries from Tanzania the runner-up.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Wendy’s Wonderful Kids: How the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s Signature Program Makes a Difference

Jun 21, 2016 2:00 PM ET

You’ve likely heard of Wendy’s® restaurants and you might even have heard of The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. But, have you heard of Wendy’s Wonderful Kids and do you know how this program is impacting children in foster care? The Foundation works to find forever families for children waiting in foster care.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Using Nature's Design Principles to Create a Radically Sustainable Food System

Jun 21, 2016 2:00 PM ET

Hundreds of students and professionals answered the call to help fix our broken food system by looking to nature to create design solutions. Now, after receiving 86 submissions from 18 countries, the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge judges have chosen ten winning teams.

Events, Media & Communications

Social Media Engagement and CSR: Q&A with Andrea Learned

Jun 21, 2016 1:45 PM ET

If you keep up with Sustainability Thought Leadership, you likely follow Andrea Learned (@AndreaLearned) on Twitter or have read her articles in the Huffington Post.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Vanguard of Future Business

Jun 21, 2016 1:30 PM ET

Each generation experiences significant change due to innovations, disruptions and shifting perspectives transforming our ways of operating and organizing in business and beyond.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

3 Ingredients for Strong Social Impact Partnerships

Jun 21, 2016 1:30 PM ET

For the Brixio team, supporting LIVESTRONG in the fight against cancer was a personal and collective desire. For our team, Brixio’s partnership with LIVESTRONG is a prime example of the simplicity and power behind business-nonprofit collaboration.

Research, Reports & Publications

Enhancing the Economic Mobility and Inclusion of Workers in Retail and Its Product Supply Chains

Jun 21, 2016 1:00 PM ET

Research, Reports & Publications

MetLife Releases Latest Corporate Responsibility Report

Jun 21, 2016 1:00 PM ET

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced the release of the company’s latest corporate responsibility report, highlighting the positive impact the company makes on society and establishing goals for future activities.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Kimberly-Clark Asia Pacific Wins Silver at PR Week Awards Asia 2016

Jun 21, 2016 12:45 PM ET

Energy

Lockheed Martin Produces Own Power

Jun 21, 2016 12:20 PM ET

As temperatures and energy cost rise, Lockheed Martin Skunkworks in Palmdale, Calif., is doing their part to not only conserve energy, but to create it.

Diversity & Inclusion

Why Don’t Americans Take More Time Off Work?

Jun 21, 2016 12:15 PM ET

You might joke that your office seems like a ghost town during the summer months, when many people take time off to go on vacation. In reality it should probably feel that way more often.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Sanofi Renews Commitment to Helping Children

Jun 21, 2016 12:05 PM ET

At the Sanofi Foundation for North America our focus on helping children, especially those in need, is a platform that cuts across all Sanofi businesses and positively impacts young, sometimes fragile lives. Whether targeting the medically underserved, those born prematurely, or those struggling with cancer, we continue to support those championing such noble causes.

Environment

Ingersoll Rand Meets Department of Energy's Better Plants Goal

Jun 21, 2016 11:55 AM ET

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings, Better Plants Program is working with leading manufacturers to improve energy efficiency in the industrial sector, and Ingersoll Rand has met its goal.

Events, Media & Communications

Learn Stakeholder Engagement Best Practices in the Extractives Industry at 2016 Responsible Extractives Summit

Jun 21, 2016 11:45 AM ET

In the extractives industry a license to operate begins with stakeholder engagement. Harry Pastuzek, Vice President, Enterprise & Community Development at PYXERA Global, will moderate a plenary panel called Strengthen a social license to operate through early & meaningful stakeholder engagement at the 2016 Responsible Extractives Summit in London.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Corporation Makes Newsweek's 2016 Green Rankings for Environmental Efforts

Jun 21, 2016 11:30 AM ET

This month, Whirlpool Corporation was named No. 204 on Newsweek’s 2016 Green Rankings list, one of the most reputed corporate rankings assessing environmental efforts of the 500 largest publicly-traded companies in the United States based on corporate sustainability and environmental impact.

Education

Teens: The Unacknowledged Experts in Science Education

Jun 21, 2016 11:00 AM ET

In education policy circles, we spend so much time talking about young people that we sometimes forget to listen to them. Young people can have critical insights on schools and learning that escape the researchers and policy wonks. As we adults struggle to reform science education, we could stand to learn a great deal from students who, after all, have the most to gain from our efforts.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Breeding Success Through Partnerships

Jun 21, 2016 10:45 AM ET

First Nation entrepreneur, James Walkus from the Kwakuitl Nation, has had incredible success growing his multi-generation, family-run business – James Walkus Fishing Company. Walkus started his career in the commercial fishing industry at age 15 on a leaky skiff. As the wild fish stocks began to decline in the mid 1990s he decided it was time to diversify his business and turned to aquaculture, developing a partnership with Marine Harvest Canada.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Pernod Ricard, the Leading Beverage Alcohol Group in the Newsweek Green Rankings 2016

Jun 21, 2016 10:45 AM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

WSJ Partners on Annual Corporate Citizenship Conference and Citizens Awards

Jun 21, 2016 10:30 AM ET

For the first time, The Wall Street Journal will join the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation as media partner for the annual Corporate Citizenship Conference, Purpose & Progress, and the Corporate Citizenship Awards on November 16-17, 2016.

Health & Healthcare

Nestlé Purina in the Americas: Advancing Pet Nutrition, Creating Positive Impacts for Pets and People in Society

Jun 21, 2016 10:30 AM ET

Nestlé Purina in the Americas has released its 2015 Creating Shared Value report, demonstrating how the company is making a positive impact for pets and the people who love them.

The report, available on www.Purina.com, provides an in-depth look at Nestlé Purina’s Creating Shared Value activities in 2015, focused on four key areas:

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sustainability and CSR: A Word about Terms

Jun 21, 2016 10:10 AM ET

What is CSR, what is sustainability, and why does BSR prefer to use one term over the other?

Energy

Ecocentricity Blog: Solar Juice, from Concentrate

Jun 21, 2016 10:00 AM ET

Have you ever seen the trick where someone starts a fire using a magnifying glass to focus sunlight? Concentrated solar power is like that, just way bigger.

Environment

Panel: The Money - Business Practices and Sustainability

Jun 21, 2016 10:00 AM ET

Chaired by senior journalist Zeinab Badawi. Panelists: Azita Shariati CEO, Sodexo Nordic. Dr. Michael Grosse, Executive Vice President Development & Service Operations, Tetra Pak. Matt Kovac, Executive Director, Food Industry Asia. Stefan Catsicas, Executive Vice President of Nestlé. EAT Stockholm Food Forum, June 2016. www.eatforum.org