Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Education

IBM Launches Open P-TECH Globally; Free Platform Focused on Workplace Learning and Skills Will Be Offered in English, Portuguese and Spanish

IBM believes that companies bringing advanced technologies to market have a responsibility to prepare students and workers for the way those technologies will shape jobs and the nature of our work.

Research, Reports & Publications

Strong Commitment Toward Sustainability Continues for Sappi North America in 2019 Sustainability Report

Sappi North America, Inc., a leading producer and supplier of diversified paper, packaging products and dissolving pulp, today released its 2019 Sustainability Report, illustrating the bright future for sustainability within the company.

Research, Reports & Publications

Bechtel Annual Report Shows Strong Performance for 2019

Bechtel helped expand air and rail transit for millions of travelers, provide zero-carbon power for communities, and eliminate the environmental risks of hazardous waste, reinforcing its standing as a trusted partner to industries and governments.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Albertsons Boosts Care for Its Communities, Associates and Customers as Sales Surge

It is a great contribution to communities that Albertsons’ stores look to neighboring companies for temporary employees.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Road to a Vaccine, Ep. 4: What Doctors on the Front Lines of COVID-19 Are Now Saying About the Virus

Innovation & Technology

Using Technology to Protect Vulnerable Communities

Environment

Blue Herons’ Home on the Lake Protected From Erosion

From a distance, Heron Island looks like any of the 100 islands on Lake Norman, north of Charlotte, N.C. As its nickname suggests, however, this strip of land is home to between 60 and 80 great blue heron nests, the largest collection of herons

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

ESG Strategies Are Working in the Downturn

The financial market downturn has negatively impacted most U.S. companies and their stocks, some more than others.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Feed the Children: Working Together to End Childhood Hunger

At its most basic level, hunger is the same everywhere. However, the context of how and where hunger occurs can determine the best course of action to address it successfully.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Corporate Citizenship Imperative During Crisis

FedEx is using its strongest capabilities to meet critical demands during the crisis—its logistics network and expertise.

Health & Healthcare

Community Support During the COVID-19 Crisis

As the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues, relief and response efforts are developing rapidly, with governments, companies and foundations all lining up to support families in communities in need.

Innovation & Technology

NADI Solar-Powered Water Pump Named as Finalist for Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Award

Launched in early 2019, NADI is a smart solar pump that helps equip farmers in rural India impacted by dwindling water reserves and irregular irrigation due to unreliable electricity with more reliable and sustainable irrigation.

Events, Media & Communications

A CEO's Perspective on Transforming the Electric Power Sector

The electric power sector is undergoing enormous transformation as it works to reduce emissions, meet changing customer demands, and respond to an evolving market for energy and energy-related services.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ScottsMiracle-Gro’s People and Culture Are a Winning Combination

The leaders of our company value continuous conversations with our associates to gain deeper understandings of their points of view.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CITGO Private Foundation Announces More Support for Venezuela

The awardees, Saludos Connection and Latin Ladies Foundation of Houston, join Cuatro por Venezuela in providing several initiatives of pandemic attention and prevention that facilitate access to health care, medicines, and supplements for vulnerable Venezuelans.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Amid Demand for High-Quality Pet Food, Freshpet Picks CRB to Build New Texas Processing Facility

Americans care for their pets by going to great lengths to find fresh ingredients and demanding that the food they feed their pets matches the high quality and safe manufacturing of the food they feed themselves.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: A Humble Species

Maybe, just maybe, we need to slow down and be humbler as a species to solve our environmental problems. What if we could do so on our terms, and not the terms of a virus?

Health & Healthcare

Essity Invests in Production of Face Masks

To support society and health and elderly care, hygiene and health company Essity has acquired three new machines for large-scale production of face masks. With this investment, the Group will produce face masks.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

How Global Pandemic Is Pushing Aflac to Evolve past Talking Duck

The brand recently announced a $5 million donation to help companies that are making protective gear used by first responders, such as masks and gloves.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Land Betterment Corporation Commits to Sustainable Bee Habitats Through Its Subsidiary Pollinate

Land Betterment Corporation an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites to create sustainable community development and job creation, is committed to enhancing the ecosystem of former coal mining sites through its subsidiary, Pollinate.

Events, Media & Communications

Porter Novelli Purpose Summit: Day 1 Preview

This Thursday, we will host Day 1 of the Porter Novelli Purpose Summit: Committing to Action Amid COVID‐19, which will take an in-depth look at how the pandemic is accelerating the transformation of business as a force for good.

Environment

Hong Kong Identifies Biowaste Reuse Opportunities, Supports Sustainable Development

Hong Kong is embarking on a semi-research project to facilitate territory-wide recycling of woody waste material.

Diversity & Inclusion

Seven Key Issues Affecting Women and Girls During the COVID-19 Pandemic—and What You Can Do About Them

Few groups have been as negatively impacted by the CODID-19 crisis as women. FSG's latest blog outlines 7 key issues disproportionately affecting women and girls and provides guidance on how to minimize gender inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.

Environment

Tetra Tech Featured in the EBJ Emerging Technology Issue

Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) released its 2020 "Emerging Technology & the Environmental Industry" publication.

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