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HPRC Impact Report

Health & Healthcare | Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council

HPRC Publishes Inaugural Impact Report: Paving the Way for Sustainable Healthcare Plastics

The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) is thrilled to announce the publication of its inaugural Impact Report for 2024.
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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Europe Leads the Way on Scope 3 Emissions: What Investors and Companies Need To Know

CSRHub

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Cocoa Market Turmoil: How Hershey Is Innovating Through Unprecedented Challenges

The Hershey Company

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sustainable Strategies for Grocery Growth

Tetra Pak

Energy

Stop Buying Energy Infrastructure. Start Buying Results.

Veolia North America

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Why Sustainability Is the Smartest Investment in an Uncertain Trade Landscape

DP World

Energy

Energy for a Better Future: Entergy’s Growth and Resiliency Strategy

Entergy Corporation

Energy

AllianceBernstein: Power Play: How To Invest Smarter in the Race for Electrification

AllianceBernstein

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sysco 2024 Sustainability Report: At the Heart of One Planet One Table

Sysco Corporation

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Health & Healthcare

Public-Private Collaboration Commits to Accelerate Access to Health Services in Africa, Reaching 1.7 Million People

Public-Private Collaboration Commits to Accelerate Access to Health Services in Africa, Reaching 1.7 Million People

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

LG Honored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Responsible Electronics Recycling Leadership

LG Electronics has been recognized for leadership in responsible electronics recycling by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. At CES® 2020, LG received the highest-level recognition in the Sustainable Materials Management Electronics Challenge.

Diversity & Inclusion

Medtronic Releases First Annual Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Report

Medtronic Releases First Annual Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Report, highlighting 100% gender pay equity in the U.S. and 99% pay equity for its 90,000+ global employees.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Lowman Discusses Keep America Beautiful’s Goals, Accomplishments

Over the last 66 years, nonprofit Keep America Beautiful (KAB) has transformed from a public service messaging organization into an organization that aims to help change behavior around litter and recycling and improve communities.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Thinking Inside the Box

Figuring out exactly how to make packaging maximally efficient and sustainable falls to an elite group with an ambitious goal: In 2012, the packaging development team was challenged to reduce total packaging material by 25 million pounds by 2020.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Australia Bushfires: How You Can Help

Over the last two months, bushfires in Australia have killed at least 28 people, destroyed more than 2,200 homes, and ravaged 25 million acres of land. Australia’s renowned wildlife and unique ecosystems are taking a devastating toll, with hundreds of millions of animals perishing.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Pink CASE Excavator Helps Fights Breast Cancer

Helping beat cancer, CASE Construction Equipment a global construction brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI/ MI: CNHI), is using its equipment to help in the fight against breast cancer with the pink CASE CX60C excavator.

Sea Change Radio

Energy

As The World Burns: Talking Oil With Daniel Dicker

On the heels of being impeached by the House of Representatives, Donald Trump unsurprisingly created a diversion, having a key Iranian General assassinated by US drones.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Fifth Third Bank Uses Its Financial Strengths to Create Positive Impact

Our business impact goes beyond the financial - to environmental, social, and governance issues. I am excited to start the year by featuring Fifth Third Bank's corporate citizenship in the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship's magazine.

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Energy

T-Mobile Takes a Portfolio Approach to Renewables: Q&A with Chad Wilkerson

T-Mobile moved early on renewables. The company became the only major telecom to receive high marks on Green America’s scorecard last April for committing to 100% renewable energy by 2021, signing agreements for wind power, and joining the RE100.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Facebook – Another Moral Dilemma

Facebook is loath to make judgments about the nature of certain political content (key difference between being an outlet and a platform), which is what leads to there being no or few filters applied to lies and deception, a continual problem for them.

Whole Foods Market Foundation

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

$150,000 in Grants Available for Newark-led Organizations to Improve Community Health and Fresh Food Access; Applications Being Accepted Now

Whole Cities Foundation, a nonprofit that works alongside community-based organizations to improve neighborhood health by broadening access to fresh food and nutrition education, announces Newark organizations can apply now for $150,000 in grants.

Education

Amgen Foundation’s Science Education Programs Have Reached Over 7,000,000 Students With Hands-on & Virtual Experiences in Science

The LabXchange launch, ABE Program Office expansion, new Amgen Scholars cohorts, and more—is anyone as excited for what 2020 means for STEM as Amgen Foundation is?

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: More Than a Drop in the Bucket

As this bucket fills, it shows humanity “using up” its carbon budget. Most striking is how fast the rate of change has accelerated in the last few decades.

Research, Reports & Publications

New Ways to Study Individual Corporations’ Supply Chains

In choosing where to invest, what products to develop and push, and what environmental and labor standards to uphold, corporations continually shape the global economy’s geography and its effects.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Wells Fargo and Enterprise Community Partners Launch the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge

Wells Fargo and Enterprise Community Partners opened the application process for the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge, a nationwide search for the most innovative, scalable and viable ideas to increase housing affordability solutions.

PepsiCo

Energy

PepsiCo to Achieve 100% Renewable Electricity in the U.S.

PepsiCo’s efforts in the U.S. build upon its global progress in switching to renewable electricity around the world.

Events, Media & Communications

Register Now to Learn How to Turn Shoppers Into Superfans

At UPS, we have a front row seat to returns, so we know how much they can impact your relationship with your customers—and your bottom line.

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Events, Media & Communications

Attendee List Revealed – Reuters Responsible Business Summit New York

We have just 10 years left to tackle the climate crisis, according to the UN.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

ON Semiconductor Impacts Community Through Corporate Giving Program

ON Semiconductor, through its Corporate Giving Program, provided a grant to purchase robot sets for the team and donated over two dozen laptops to schools in Idaho specifically for robot programming.

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Environment

BlackRock CEO Letter on Sustainable Investing Is a Game Changer for the Global Investor and Corporate Community

CEO Larry Fink’s annual letter released today announcing that sustainability is at the center of BlackRock’s investment practices is a major turning point for the world’s largest asset manager, representing nearly $7 trillion AUM.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Kick off 2020 by Tapping Into Taproot's Marketing, HR, and IT Support

Join Taproot Foundation’s free webinar for nonprofits on Tuesday, January 28 for all the tools you’ll need to tap into valuable marketing, IT, HR, and strategy support.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Future of Corporate Foundations

In CECP’s 2019 Giving in Numbers survey, roughly 80% of companies reported having a corporate foundation, and of those companies, the average number of foundations a company operated was 3. It is clear that companies view having their own corporate

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

We Are Citizen Philanthropists

Every waterfall begins with a single drop of water. That’s the idea behind VMware’s Citizen Philanthropy approach to giving—that VMware’s waterfall of impact is the result of the collective actions of VMware people.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Science ATL Receives International Paper Foundation Grant

Funds will support Science ATL’s programs to strengthen youth engagement and leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

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