Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Innovation & Technology

Environment Check for New E-Class

If you want to find out how environmentally compatible a vehicle is, you have to look at more than just the fuel consumption and emission figures. To obtain a full overview, it’s vital to take the vehicle’s entire life cycle into account — from the extraction of the raw materials it contains to the car’s production, its many years of use, and its eventual recycling/disposal as an end-of-life vehicle.

Energy

Eight-MW Giant Makes Offshore Wind Power Cheaper

A new offshore wind turbine from Siemens is set to lower the cost of wind power generated on the high seas. Siemens believes it is well on the way to reaching its goal of producing offshore wind energy at a total cost of less than ten euro cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) by 2020.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Social-impact Investing Pairs Profit with Purpose

Education

Here’s How You Can Help Teachers Inspire Students This School Year

Summer is almost over, and children all over the country will soon be heading back to school. In order to ensure that their students have another phenomenal year of learning, many teachers purchase their own school supplies.

Environment

See the Recyclable Materials Auto Makers Use to Make Cars Environmentally Friendly

When vehicles are made from reused components, they contribute to the circular economy – reducing or eliminating waste and pollution that would have resulted.

Health & Healthcare

India’s New Mental Health Care Act and the Complexity of Mental Illness

On August 8, 2016, India passed the Mental Health Care Act. What does this mean for people experiencing mental illness and the services and supports they need and use?

Responsible Production & Consumption

3TG is Just the Starting Point for Supply Chain Investigation

Approximately 1,200 publicly-traded companies filed Conflict Minerals Reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this year, in accordance with Dodd-Frank Section 1502 (Conflict Minerals Rule). As the filings period for the 2015 reporting year has drawn to a close, companies are already preparing for the 2016 reporting year.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Hidden Hunger and What Young Leaders are Doing to Help

Actively engaging young people in their community can result in positive and meaningful social change. Learn more about how to engage young people by reading Six Steps to Engage Millennials in Social Change and utilizing the complimentary Youth Engagement Toolkit.

Social Impact & Volunteering

How Time Warner Cable, The Connectory, and VolunteerMatch Collaborated for Mutually Beneficial Results

At VM Summit 16, Erin Hogeboom of National Girl Collaborative will present a session called The STEM Trifecta: How Time Warner Cable, The Connectory, and VolunteerMatch Collaborated for Mutually Beneficial Results. Learn more about Erin and her session in this Q&A, including why she is looking forward to VM Summit 16.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Going Behind-the-Scenes at the Rio Olympics

"And Shawn Johnson takes home the gold for USA Gymnastics!" Those were the words my heart clung to as I, then an 11-year-old girl, watched from my family’s living room as my favorite gymnast stood tall atop the podium in Beijing in the summer of 2008. I have always reserved a special reverence and excitement for the Olympics. After all, it is during the Olympics that the world pauses briefly, setting feuds and tensions aside, to celebrate the pinnacle of human athletic achievement.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sustainability-Led Innovation: Imperative in a Volatile Economy

Striking a balance between managing for the short term and re-tooling for a future is not easy. It is not enough to craft a new marketing campaign; in fact starting with marketing, before getting the product and offer right, can backfire. Bringing a truly sustainable brand to market in the 21st century requires a whole new mindset and new set of methods, tools and partners. Sustainability-led innovation is imperative in a volatile economy.

Environment

Capturing Rainwater Will Save GM Plant Millions of Dollars

A new project to capture stormwater at GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly – home of the Chevrolet Volt – is slated to save the plant nearly $2 million every year. The initiative, two years in the making, now allows the plant to reuse rainwater for manufacturing processes throughout the 4 million square foot facility.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Forest Management: Killing The Goose

A curious dilemma has emerged for the environmental community seeking to encourage companies to adopt sustainable production practices through the vehicle of market-based, voluntary certifications. Until this dilemma is resolved, it could drive the very companies who are engaged in the best practices away from participation in these certification programs.

Energy

DuPont 2020 Energy Goal Case Study: Changing the Way We Power Our Labs

As a world leader in science-based innovation, DuPont is constantly pursuing new frontiers in agriculture and nutrition, advanced materials, and bio-based industrials. The science of transforming the world requires a lot of things --- perseverance, world-class scientists and engineers, and cutting edge research and development facilities to name a few. And, it also takes a lot of energy. In 2014, DuPont used approximately 27 million megawatt hours (direct and indirect) of energy, the equivalent consumption of 2.5 million U.S. homes over the course of a year.

Energy

Opening of Landside Power Plant Altona: AIDAsol Connected to Power Supply in Altona

The June arrival of the AIDAsol marked the official opening of the landside power plant in Altona. In addition to Olaf Scholz, Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Jens Meier, Chairman of the Management Board HPA, Dr. Monika Griefahn, Director for Environment and Society AIDA Cruises, and Michael Westhagemann, CEO of the Siemens AG Region Hanse and Chairman of the Cluster Renewable Energy Hamburg, Federal Environmental Minister Dr. Barbara Hendricks and Andreas Boschen, HEAD of INEA CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) also attended the event.

Environment

Mars Achieves Zero Waste to Landfill Goal

Mars Inc., manufacturer of confectionery, pet food and other food products, has released its sixth annual Principals in Action Summary.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Meet Elżbieta Henryka Strzelec from Poland

Elżbieta, from Warsaw, is a teacher of both biology and natural science, working in two different schools. She has 25 years' experience and is responsible for the education of students between the ages of 13 and 19.

Energy

Improving Lives in Sri Lanka’s Rural Communities

Biomass Supplies, a Sri Lankansubsidiary of Biomass Group –the visionary renewable energy company – is developing Sri Lanka’s abundant sustainable energy resources through innovative partnerships with the country’s smallholder farmers. Biomass has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to boost the incomes of 40,000 farmers – at least 70 percent of them women – by 2018 and improve their yields through training in sustainable agriculture practices.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Women Using Venture Capital to Change the World

Good Ventures. Read about how Nancy Pfund, one of Silicon Valley's leading venture capitalists, is changing the world

Environment

Drought Prompts Need for Alternative Water Supplies, But Other Drivers Gaining Traction

The importance of alternative water supplies, such as water reuse, brackish groundwater and desalination, continues to grow as organizations look to build diversified, resilient water supplies.

Health & Healthcare

Partnering with Diabetes At The Centre of the Universe

Located on the hillside where Galileo Galilei was watching the stars, the Italian Barometer Diabetes Observatory Foundation breaks new ground in chronic disease management through a unique partnership model.

Education

CITGO and the Ocean Exploration Trust Partnership Brings Science to Life for Students and Educators

For the third year, CITGO Petroleum Corporation and the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) are providing teachers and students with unique educational opportunities in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Health & Healthcare

Is Health the New Carbon?

Our built environment has a profound impact on our health, well-being, happiness and productivity. It can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively influence our health through the quality of our surroundings.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  2. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  3. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  4. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  5. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  6. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  7. Recognition of our Company
    As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...
  8. Aflac Insights
    Learn more about Aflac’s survey findings to better understand workplace trends as well as consumer attitudes, habits and opinions toward health and...
  9. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  10. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  11. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  12. Aflac Voices
    Hear from Aflac’s senior leaders and subject matter experts about industry trends and more.
  13. Plastics Footprint
    We aspire to be a leader in driving innovative solutions that address the problem of plastic pollution and enable a circular economy. We are committed...
  14. 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...
  15. Health & Nutrition
    Be the leading nutritious and sustainable product development partner for our customers, developing industry leading solutions that enable the...