Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Pizza Hut Corporate ‘Green Team’ Awarded the Environmental Star of Excellence

Pizza Hut corporate created the ‘Green Team’ earlier this year in an effort to create more sustainable office processes. The team has addressed several projects to implement sustainable practices at the Restaurant Support Center (RSC) this year including a waste audit, Earth Day events such as the Go Dark Hour where all lights in the RSC were turned down to conserve energy, education and awareness, and careful resource management in our headquarters.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Safe, Sound, and Serviceable: Norfolk Southern’s Bridge Infrastructure

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

An Interview with Henri de Castries of AXA at the BSR Conference 2015

In an interview at the BSR Conference 2015, Henri de Castries, chairman and CEO of insurance company AXA, spoke with us about resilience and the insurability of a 4˚C rise in global temperature.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bloomberg partner CDP launches their US Climate Change Report

Education

Amgen Scholars Program 2014 Annual Report

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

What HP, Groupon, DICK’s Sporting Goods and New Balance Have in Common

HP uses it to engage employees. Groupon encourages restaurant visits with it. DICK’s leverages its power to remind consumers that sports matter. New Balance moves shoes with it. What is it? “It” is a strategic, win-win partnership between company and cause that pays both social and financial dividends: it’s cause marketing. All of these brands have won the industry's highest honor: the Cause Marketing Halo Award. And the 2016 submission period is now open!

Events, Media & Communications

UPS Wants Your Holiday Wish List

When civil rights activist Bob Brown learned how many school children in Africa didn’t have access to school books, he set out to change the world – one book at a time.

Environment

Bill McKibben: Putting the X in XL

The drawn-out fight to prevent the Keystone XL pipeline recently ended in a triumph for environmental activists, when President Obama announced he would not approve the pipeline.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ch. 2 WSB-TV and the Trust for Public Land Name Tom Branch as Atlanta’s 2015 Cox Conserves Hero

Channel 2 WSB-TV and The Trust for Public Land named Tom Branch as Atlanta’s 2015 Cox Conserves Hero. Branch’s nonprofit of choice, Park Pride, will receive $10,000 on his behalf. The three finalists were chosen by a judging panel and then competed in an online public vote to be named Atlanta’s Cox Conserves Hero.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

UN Global Compact: Mobilizing Business to Change the World

Over the past decades, the United Nations has undertaken the painstaking work of convening governments and urging them to take a serious look at how to address the urgent environmental, social, and governance challenges our world faces.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Major Leaguers, Action Team Captains Celebrate Veterans Day by Building a House for a Local Vet

More than 50 Action Team Captains from Maine and Massachusetts joined Major Leaguers and New Englanders Matt Barnes (CT), Chris Iannetta (RI) and Ryan O’Rourke (MA), on Saturday, Nov. 14, for a regional service project to help South East New Hampshire Habitat for Humanity build a house for a local veteran and his young family.

Events, Media & Communications

3BL Media Lunch & Learn on Dec. 1: How Sustainability Communicators Distribute Content

Communications professionals responsible for telling their organizations’ CSR and sustainability stories are invited to a lunch-and-learn webinar Dec. 1 to hear how leading corporations are leveraging 3BL Media’s distribution platform to reach target audiences.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Republic Services Expands CNG-Powered Fleet in Phoenix

Republic Services announced today the addition of four Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) solid waste collection trucks to its fleet serving customers throughout the greater Phoenix area. The CNG trucks replace older diesel-powered trucks, and bring the total number of natural gas vehicles operated by Republic Services throughout Arizona to 34.

Environment

Wells Fargo Recognized for Transparency on Climate Change by CDP

Wells Fargo has been selected for the CDP S&P 500 Climate Disclosure Leadership Index 2015 with a perfect score of 100.

Wells Fargo earned its position on the index by disclosing high quality carbon emissions and energy data via CDP's climate change program. The Climate Disclosure Leadership Index lists the top 10 percent of companies within the S&P 500 Index for the depth and quality of climate change data disclosed to investors and the global marketplace.

Diversity & Inclusion

When the Bloomberg Latino Community Leads, Success Follows

Members of our Latino Community share insight into what it takes to lead a successful career at Bloomberg.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bandwagon & JetBlue Bring Smart Taxisharing to JFK

Research, Reports & Publications

BJ's Wholesale Club Releases its Values in Action: 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report

BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., announced today the release of its Values in Action: 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility Report (CSR) to highlight the company's efforts in helping to improve its communities and planet.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

T. Rowe Price Earns Top Marks in 2016 Corporate Equality Index

T. Rowe Price received a score of 95 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Earn Top Marks in 2016 Corporate Equality Index

Wynn Las Vegas and Encore are the proud recipients of a perfect score on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

Environment

Jackson Family Wines Joins Beverage Industry Environmental Rountable

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) welcomes Jackson Family Wines (JFW), a leading international, luxury wine company, as its newest member. Producing some of the world’s highest quality wines, JFW has received awards for both environmentally and socially responsible practices in Europe and North America.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

KOHLER Clarity Brings Safe Water to Those in Need

Kohler Co. has developed a ceramic water filtration system to enable people in remote regions to access safe, reliable drinking water.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Corporation Receives Perfect Score on Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for 13th Consecutive Year

Whirlpool Corporation, the number one major home appliance manufacturer in the world, has been recognized for the company’s commitment to diversity and inclusion with a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI). This marks the 13th consecutive perfect score for the maker of home appliance brands such as Whirlpool, Maytag and KitchenAid.

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