Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Editors Pick

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2025 Principal® Charity Classic Raised Record $10.6 Million for Iowa Youth

The Principal Financial Group

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

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Software-Defined Vehicles: The Critical Road to a Secure Future

Keysight Technologies

Innovation & Technology

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Impact: Delivering Financial Security

Northwestern Mutual

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Addressing and Reducing Waste Within the Tapestry Supply Chain

We are innovating and re-thinking historical fashion industry norms by reusing, recycling and repurposing, which ultimately result in less waste to landfill.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Employee Profile: In the Community With CACI's Lewis Pate

Lewis Pate, Ph.D., was born with a natural curiosity. As a boy, he just had to figure out how things work, especially if it involved electricity.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Valuing Water Finance Initiative: A Watershed Moment

From the recent destructive flooding in Kentucky and Mississippi to the dwindling Colorado River supply, no one is spared from the global water crisis that is accelerating before our eyes.

Energy

Illuminating Possibility: Duke Energy and Ford Motor Company Plan To Use F-150 Lightning Electric Trucks To Help Power the Grid

Pilot incentives will reduce vehicle lease payments for program participants who lease an eligible electric vehicle. In exchange, customers will allow their EVs to feed energy back to the grid – helping to balance it during peak demand.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Alibaba-Backed C2 Capital Invests in Plant-Based Food Start-Up Eat Just

Alibaba Group-backed private equity firm C2 Capital Partners has invested $25 million in Eat Just, the food-technology company behind the successful plant-based egg brand, JUST Egg.

Health & Healthcare

Latest Research at ESMO Congress 2022 Showcases the Impact of Comprehensive Genomic Profiling for Cancer Patients

Illumina a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, announced the upcoming presentation of multiple oncology research abstracts at this year’s European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) annual meeting, September 9–13 in Paris.

Responsible Production & Consumption

It's No Dream, Sustainable Jeans Are Perfect Fit for Modern Retail Consumers

When I first stepped into the sustainable, intelligent enterprise showcase of the Trilogy jeans company at the SAP Sapphire Orlando event, the last thing I imagined was encountering seaweed and synthetic spider webs.

Health & Healthcare

Accelerating Purposeful Innovation in Healthcare

As the internet of medical things (IoMT) evolves, the healthcare sector is experiencing a digital renaissance that is improving the experience of both patients and practitioners.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

DraftKings Taps The Miz and Tony Hawk for its New Responsible Gaming Advertising Campaign: Practice Safe Bets

DraftKings Inc. has announced its newest responsible gaming initiative – the Practice Safe Bets advertising campaign – marking the American Gaming Association’s inaugural Responsible Gaming Education Month this September.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

KeyBank, Buffalo GoGreen and African Heritage Food Co-Op Team Up To Bring Farmers Market to East Buffalo Neighborhood

In an effort to encourage sustained, meaningful and transformational change in East Buffalo, KeyBank, Buffalo GoGreen and the African Heritage Food Co-Op are partnering to bring a bi-weekly farmers market to the city’s Delavan-Grider neighborhood.

Energy

Booster® Expands Mobile Fueling Services Coast to Coast

In response to growing customer demand from enterprise fleets looking to optimize costs, lower carbon emissions and source renewable fuels, Booster® announces that it is expanding services across the United States with several new market launches.

Education

MilliporeSigma and Harris Stowe State University Partner to Spark Scientific Curiosity in Students

To help introduce students to STEM, MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Harris Stowe State University, provided educational opportunities to students through a two-week STEM camp.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whirlpool Community Charity Golf Event Raised Nearly $2.6 Million for Area Youth

The two day event included rounds of golf on six courses for more than 650 people from all over the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico and China, a Fireside Chat with Jack Nicklaus and Ken “Hawk” Harrelson, a Silent Auction and Live Auction.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Trane Technologies Named One of Fortune's Best Workplaces in Manufacturing & Production

Trane Technologies has been named to the top ten of Fortune’s list of the Best Workplaces in Manufacturing & Production™ 2022.

Health & Healthcare

Overcoming Blood Cancer With CAR T-cell Therapy: Eleonora's Journey

In February 2019, Eleonora was preparing to go out with a friend when she suddenly fainted. She woke up in the hospital near her home in Italy and didn’t remember a thing. But she will never forget the news the doctors delivered to her.

Research, Reports & Publications

Bringing More to the Table

JBS continues to invest in communities with free education while working towards our 2030 net-zero goal

Events, Media & Communications

Gildan Announces Launch of Mini-Documentary Series as Part of Gildan Respects™ Campaign

Gildan is proud to announce today the launch of its two-part mini documentary series that will be released starting next week to support its global ESG campaign – Gildan Respects™ which was unveiled earlier this year.

Sustainable Development Goals

As Social and Climate Crises Intensify, the Sustainability Movement and Others Must Move Beyond ‘Short-Term and Piecemeal Fixes’ To Deliver Wholescale Systems Change

International sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future has today announced its 2023-2025 strategy outlining three pivotal ‘transitions’ that it will focus on in its efforts to create a ‘just and regenerative’ future

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Power, Water Industry Veterans Join Black & Veatch Board of Directors

Black & Veatch announced this week that Laszlo von Lazar, president of the company’s Energy & Process Industries business, and Mike Orth, president of the company’s Governments & Environment business, have been named to the Board of Directors.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CASE Construction Backs Nedd Brockmann's World Record Attempt to Run Across Australia

Nedd Brockmann is attempting to break the world record for the fastest ever run across Australia, whilst trying to raise $1 million for the homeless.

Events, Media & Communications

Hormel Foods Announces: A Hometown Celebration - The Power of Food, People and Purpose

Hormel Foods Corporation announced it will be celebrating The Power of Food, People and Purpose with a free outdoor concert opened by Chayce Beckham and headlined by Phillip Phillips — both “American Idol” winners and singer-songwriters.

Innovation & Technology

Eaton's Positive Impact Solutions: Designed With a Purpose

Eaton solutions help solve global sustainability challenges and allow our customers to meet their ambitious climate action goals. Eaton engineers design solutions that enable our customers to conserve resources and make smart energy decisions.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Southern Company Gas Earns Top Industry Recognition for Efforts To Promote Sustainability

In recognition of its efforts to encourage the evolution within the natural gas industry toward a sustainable future, Southern Company Gas has been honored with the 2022 Southern Gas Association Environmental, Social & Governance Award.

Diversity & Inclusion

How to Use the TalkBack Screen Reader on Your Peloton Equipment

We’re excited to introduce the TalkBack screen reader to the Peloton Tread. This accessibility feature guides our blind and low-vision Members through class with audio cues.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Dow and Mura Technology Announce Largest Commitment of Its Kind To Scale Advanced Recycling of Plastics

Dow and Mura Technology announce the next step in their partnership to help solve the global plastic waste issue with the intention to construct multiple world-scale 120 kilotons (KT) advanced recycling facilities in the U.S. and Europe – collectively adding as much as 600 KT of annual capacity.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Principal Financial Group: Financial Inclusion
    Helping individuals and businesses gain access to useful financial products and services to meet their needs—from savings, credit, and insurance to...
  2. Cascale Events
    Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
  3. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  4. Whole Planet
    Whole Planet, a pillar of Whole Foods Market Foundation, helps people living in poverty build long-term financial resilience through income growth...
  5. Performance
    Prioritizing ethics, economic contribution, operational excellence, integrity, and accountability in all we do.
  6. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  7. Leadership
    Cascale demonstrates industry leadership and collaboration to drive collective action, by sharing insight into key sustainability topics inside and...
  8. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  9. 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...
  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. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  12. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  13. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  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. SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights
    Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...