Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Financial Inclusion and Capacity-Building at Truist

Social Impact & Volunteering

Lights, Normalcy Steadily Coming Back to Tangipahoa Parish Following Hurricane Ida

Customer in Robert who rode out storm says she is grateful to have power again

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Scotiabank Announces Further Support for Canadian Literary Arts With Little Free Library and Scotiabank Giller Prize Collaboration

Scotiabank announced a new collaboration with Little Free Library, the world's largest book-sharing movement, to place thousands of copies of The Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlisted novels in Little Free Libraries across Canada.

Energy

“Caulk Out the Cold” and Help Your Home Stand up to Winter

With the winter heating season just around the corner there’s no better time to shore up your home’s defenses against frigid temperatures and unnecessarily high energy bills.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

MilliporeSigma Joins Cyclyx Consortium As First Founding Member Representing the Life Sciences Industry

Living up to its commitment to creating smaller footprints, MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, recently became the first founding member of Cyclyx representing the life science industry.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Reducing Risks in a Laboratory: an Ergonomic Approach

Today’s lab designers strive to improve the efficiency, safety, and comfort of the lab environment, and the application of ergonomics plays a key role in that work.

Environment

TD Bank Celebrates 10 Years of TD Tree Days Program in Partnership With Arbor Day Foundation

This year, TD Bank celebrates the 10th anniversary of the TD Tree Days program, a community-based program, delivered in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation

Green Infrastructure

Black & Veatch Helps Vail, Colorado, Complete First Phase of 100-Percent Electrification of its Public Bus Fleet

For mountain ski towns like Vail, Colorado, climate change and warming temperatures pose an existential threat to the heavy snowpack on which the area’s tourism economy is based.

Events, Media & Communications

EcoVadis Launches New eLearning Platform to Help Customers Improve Sustainability Practices and Performance

EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, today launched its EcoVadis Academy.

Environment

Luminant Honored With Award of Excellence for its Reclamation and Restoration of Previously Mined Land

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) announced Luminant, a subsidiary of @VistraCorp as a recipient of its 2021 Excellence in Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Award.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Students and Faculty at IU and Kelley Build Home With Whirlpool and Habitat for Humanity

This will be the largest house built by IU and Kelley students since Whirlpool Corporation – a key corporate supporter and recruiter of students from the Kelley School – began a partnership with Habitat for Humanity International to construct homes in Monroe County in 2010.

Education

Edge at Hudson Yards and Discovery Education Launch New Partnership Empowering Students to Engineer STEM Dreams

Edge at Hudson Yards and Discovery Education today announced a new educational initiative that shows students nationwide the transformative power of STEM during a virtual trip to the tallest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Leveling the Playing Field on Employee Engagement

This month, we launched Dow’s first-ever global Volunteer and ERG Participation policy, which allows all of our employees paid time-off to volunteer and engage in Employee Resource Group (ERG) activities.

Energy

Nunam: Meet the Team Unlocking the Socioeconomic and Environmental Potential of Used Batteries

Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 winners have been officially announced, we are excited for you to learn more about each winning team and the story behind each innovation.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Cleaning Up: See How KeyBank Teammates Helped Beautify a City Park on Neighbors Make the Difference Day

On September 14, 2021, hundreds of KeyBank teammates across the nation volunteered at more than 600 projects in the neighborhoods where they live and work on Neighbors Make the Difference Day.

Innovation & Technology

Pro Bono Perspectives S3E22: Dan Noyes, Tech Goes Home

Tech Goes Home Co-CEO Dan Noyes joins the podcast for a conversation on the root causes of the digital divide, the fundamental changes we must make for digital equity, and why this is both a social and economic imperative.

Sustainable Development Goals

Corporate Innovation in Support of the SDGs

Leading global experts from the private and public sector share their views on how technology can promote better health for all, as well as establish education systems that are fit for the future – in the latest podcasts from GRI.

Diversity & Inclusion

Trane Technologies to Donate $1 Million to Address Racial Inequities and Boost Opportunity in Charlotte-Mecklenburg

Trane Technologies plc (NYSE:TT), a global climate innovator, is donating $1 million to a communitywide public-private partnership to address racial equity in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

Responsible Production & Consumption

First-of-Its-Kind Certification Eliminates Harmful PFAS in Foodware and Shifts Market to Preferred Alternatives

Non-profit organizations Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and Clean Production Action (CPA) have unveiled the GreenScreen Certified™ Standard for Food Service Ware.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

MIT Collaborates With Biogen on Three-Year, $7 Million Initiative to Address Climate, Health, and Equity

MIT and Biogen today announced that they will collaborate with the goal to accelerate the science and action on climate change to improve human health.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

FedEx and Orbis: Fighting Blindness Side-by-Side for More Than 30 Years

As the Director of the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, Maurice Geary is responsible for the smooth running of every Flying Eye Hospital project, working closely with all members of the team from the flight mechanics to the staff nurses.

Environment

Mondelēz International Commits to 2050 Net Zero Emissions Target

As part of its commitment, Mondelēz has signed the Science Based Targets Initiative’s Business Ambition for 1.5°C, aligning its long-term emissions targets with the ambitious aim of limiting temperature rise in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

DuPont Receives Innovation Award for New Low GWP Froth-Pak™ Spray Foam

DuPont Performance Building Solutions’ Low GWP Froth-Pak™ Spray Foam Blown with Liquid HFO and CO2 was recognized by the Adhesive and Sealant Council (ASC) with the 2021 Innovation Award.

Health & Healthcare

Lenovo Helps Estimated 3 Million People Across India During COVID 19

As India continued to take action against COVID-19, Lenovo reached out again to both the government and people of India through the Lenovo Foundation, its charitable arm.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CIT Launches Annual One Million Meals Campaign

IT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) today announced the start of its annual partnership with Feeding America® to help provide One Million Meals1 to people facing hunger across the country.

Latest Campaigns

  1. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...
  2. 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...
  3. IWBI | WELL Building Standard
    Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...
  4. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  5. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  6. Kids to College Powered by Entergy
    Entergy believes in the dreams of the families we serve. Everyone deserves the opportunity to continue their education and, as a corporate leader and...
  7. Financial health
    At Wells Fargo, we're opening pathways to economic advancement for racially and ethnically diverse and low- and moderate-income individuals and...
  8. KeyBank: Responsible Banking
    Everyone’s financial journey is different. We make intentional efforts to meet the individual needs of clients and communities through a diverse range...
  9. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...
  10. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  11. Health and Safety by Antea Group
    Antea Group's health and safety consultants understand what it takes to help make a positive impact on safety culture. Read blogs, insights, and more...
  12. Corporate Social Responsibility
    Whirlpool Corporation has several CSR partners including United Way, Habitat for Humanity International, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Consulada...
  13. Arbor Day Foundation News
    Stay up to date on the latest news and events from the Arbor Day Foundation. Subscribe to the Arbor Day e-news arborday.org/accounts/optin.cfm
  14. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  15. 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...