Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Diversity & Inclusion

Business Action on Global Inclusion and Diversity

Newmont is a member of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), a global non-profit organization that works with a network of more than 250 member companies and other partners to build a just and sustainable world.

Environment

Partnership Aims to Help Butterfly Population Take Off

In an effort to help restore dwindling monarch butterfly populations, the Save Our Monarchs Foundation (SOM) has partnered with TransCanada to utilize approximately 4,000 acres of land surrounding TransCanada’s Woolfolk Gas Plant as pollinator habitat.

Environment

National Geographic Society Commits $50 Million of Endowment to Impact Investments

The National Geographic Society today announced it is dedicating $50 million from its $1.1 billion endowment to impact investments, furthering its commitment to understanding our planet and generating solutions for a healthy, more sustainable future.

Environment

Empire BlueCross BlueShield Rolls Out New Fleet of Vans That Will Decrease Carbon Footprint Within New York City

To celebrate World Environment Day 2017, Empire BlueCross BlueShield is proud to announce it is rolling out six new eco-friendly vans that will assist Medicaid members by providing support services such as finding in-network providers, booking doctor’s appointments and enrollment. The new vans have been specifically modified and designed to lower CO2 emissions, reduce the amount of gas utilized, take up less side-walk and commercial front space and diminish noise pollution through decreased generator usage.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Amgen Tampa Team Volunteers

The Tampa INBU sales team volunteered in the Metropolitan Ministries thrift shop. They unpacked and organized donations to help the homeless and those at risk of being homeless.

Green Infrastructure

Building a Sustainable 'Highway of the Future'

The long-term goal of The Ray is to build the world’s first sustainable road, a highway that could create its own clean, renewable energy and generate income by selling power to utility companies, while producing no stormwater runoff or other pollution and eliminating traffic deaths.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Timberland Recognized for Innovative Partnership with Thread, Combining Sustainability and Social Impact

In spring 2017, global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland released a new collection in partnership with Thread, a Certified B Corporation that crafts fabric from plastic bottles littering the streets and landfills of Haiti. The Timberland X Thread collection of boots, bags and t-shirts goes beyond environmental sustainability, creating cleaner neighborhoods and meaningful new job opportunities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Focus on Culture, Collaboration and Creativity to Drive Corporate Sustainability

For Bridget Burnell, GM’s manager of environmental sustainability initiatives, sustainability is more than just her job – it’s personal.

Environment

Fenner Nature Center in Lansing Enhanced by Consumers Energy Volunteer’s Involvement

Consumers Energy employees are taking part in volunteer efforts this spring to support environmental stewardship and sustainability throughout Michigan. Lansing’s Fenner Nature Center is one of the beneficiaries, thanks to employee Scott McPhail. McPhail, an engineer with Consumers Energy in Jackson, has been an active volunteer at the Fenner Nature Center for more than two years and also serves on the organization’s board of directors.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Cargill and Solidaridad Establish Palm Oil Sustainability Program in Colombia

Cargill, in collaboration with the international nonprofit Solidaridad and the Colombian-based international trading company, C.I. Biocosta S.A., announced today a new palm oil smallholder sustainability program in Colombia aimed at improving agricultural practices and farmer livelihoods. The two-year effort will strengthen operations in cooperation with more than 480 palm farmers through training and technical assistance.

Social Impact & Volunteering

How Making a Difference Really Opened my Eyes

When was the last time you went to work and had an eye-opening experience? Last year, I was selected for a 13-week assignment in Tanzania, one of the poorest countries in Africa, as part of the MSD Fellowship for Global Health. The Fellowship is an example of MSD’s mission and vi

Innovation & Technology

Trane Announces Significant Advancements in Chiller Technology to Help European Building Owners Achieve Sustainability Goals

With this announcement, Trane will be the first in the industry to offer a combined portfolio of screw compressor chillers and high- and low-speed centrifugal chillers with a near-zero GWP refrigerant option. The new solutions will be part of the Ingersoll Rand EcoWise™ portfolio of products designed to lower their environmental impact with next-generation, low-GWP refrigerants and high-efficiency operation. Building owners can use these products to help reach sustainability goals without sacrificing safety, efficiency or reliability as the new portfolio has industry-leading efficiencies and temperature reach for both cooling and heating operations.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Professional Builders Help Build or Improve 200 Homes in One Week with Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity is bringing together professional builders this summer for its Home Builders Blitz. Presented by Ply Gem, the event is a weeklong effort to build and improve homes across the U.S.

Diversity & Inclusion

A Better Chance to Honor MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark and Other Community Leaders Committed to Education and Diversity

Event features presentation of 2017 Chairman's Award to JCPenney Chairman and CEO Marvin Ellison; the 2017 Benjamin E. Mays Award to The College Board President and CEO David Coleman and the DreamBuilder Award to Tony Clark, Executive Director, Major League Baseball Players Association.

Research, Reports & Publications

Bloomberg is Investing in Market Infrastructure

Bloomberg has always believed that bringing transparency to financial markets through access to information can increase capital flows, produce economic growth and create efficiencies for businesses. This idea revolutionized the bond markets in 1981, and, since then, we have expanded our efforts across asset classes to equities, derivatives, commodities and the broader financial markets.

Environment

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable to Hold Inaugural Latin America Water Forum

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER), a technical coalition of global beverage sector leaders, announced today that it will sponsor its first 2-day regional forum event for members, select supply chain stakeholders and industry partners in Latin America, June 14-15, 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Morgan Stanley Foundation Announces Additional $750,000 in Grants to Local Food Banks Across the United States

Morgan Stanley Foundation today announced $750,000 in grants to local food banks in 15 cities across 11 states to support hunger-relief programs that deliver nutritious meals to children and families. Over the past four years, this specific grant program has awarded more than $5 million from the Morgan Stanley Foundation to help launch, expand and sustain critical childhood feeding programs.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Who is Your Best Friend?

Today is national best friend day and for children who grew up in the foster care system, friendship can be a tough thing to form. When you are always moving from house to house, it’s hard to create lasting friendships. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is committed to dramatically increasing the number of adoptions from foster care so that every child can have the family and friendships they deserve.

Environment

CITGO Continues Restoration Work in the Lemont Quarries

CITGO volunteers and community leaders came together in Lemont to continue the project of removing invasive species and the replanting of native seeds in the Heritage Quarries Recreation Area (HQRA).

Environment

General Mills Continues Clean Energy Leadership; Signs Wind Power Agreement

General Mills has taken another step toward its climate goal with the signing of a virtual 15-year power purchase agreement with Renewable Energy Systems (RES) for 100-megawatts (MW) of its Cactus Flats wind project. The wind project will produce renewable energy credits for General Mills that can be applied toward the company’s greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. During the peak of construction, the project will create about 250 jobs in the clean energy workforce.

Education

Extreme Classroom Makeover: The Big Bad Wolf Won’t Blow These Houses Down

Perhaps one day, a preschooler in Sara Podvasnik’s class will look back at a classroom exercise featuring the Three Little Pigs as the day that sparked their engineering career.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

MetLife Foundation | Lean for the Social Sector

Sustainable Development Goals

Cox Enterprises to Join Ocean Conservancy’s Trash Free Seas Alliance

In celebration of World Oceans Day, Cox Enterprises announced it will become a member of Ocean Conservancy’s Trash Free Seas Alliance, pledging to work toward solutions that will eliminate ocean trash.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

LG Honored for Supply Chain Sustainability by Green Electronics Council at 2017 CES Asia

SHANGHAI, China, June 8, 2017 — LG Electronics (LG) has been honored for innovation in supply chain sustainability by the Green Electronics Council. Presented today at CES Asia™ 2017, the GEC Catalyst Awards seek to inspire innovation in the design, manufacture and use of electronics to advance global sustainability.

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