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sustainability: 2025 Report - Rockwell Automation
Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

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What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Diversity & Inclusion

Antea Group Practitioner Spotlight--Caron Koll

Every month Antea Group takes a closer look at one of our practitioners--their background, what they love about their work, and what makes them tick. This month, we spotlight environmental liability management consultant Caron Koll, out of the Syracuse office. Caron talks to us about what she loves about her work, her first job, and the historial character she'd most like to work with.

Diversity & Inclusion

Million Women Mentors Reaches the One Million Mentors Pledge Mark

Social Impact & Volunteering

Embracing Change: A Five-Step Process

How do you help an organization embrace change? While not simple, there is a manageable five-step process that will help you manage the change so that it doesn’t manage you.

Health & Healthcare

How to Help Kids Get Healthy and Active: Start with Schools

With childhood obesity rates skyrocketing, a group of educators and officials in 2002 decided to enlist the community’s help. Underscoring then U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher’s declaration that American obesity had become an epidemic, they created the public-private partnership Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK).

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Albertsons and Safeway Donate Holiday Hope to the Marian House

Innovation & Technology

Microsoft Offers Grants to Organizations Working to Improve Affordable Internet Access

On Thursday, Microsoft Corp. renewed its Affordable Access Initiative grant fund for a second year. The fund assists companies working to bring internet access and new technologies, services and models to underserved markets. The application process is now open for a new set of partners.

Events, Media & Communications

Bloomberg Cornell Tech Series: A Conversation with Danny Meyer

On Nov 14, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg held a conversation with Danny Meyer

Responsible Production & Consumption

Companies Should Act Now: EU Conflict Minerals Rules Finalized

Green Infrastructure

America’s First Sustainable Urban Agrihood Debuts in Detroit

The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI) is debuting America’s first sustainable urban agrihood, an alternative neighborhood growth model in Detroit’s lower North End that positions agriculture as the centerpiece of a mixed-use urban development.

Environment

GM Focuses on Asia for Biodiversity Progress

GM committed to earn Wildlife Habitat Council conservation certification at each of its manufacturing sites around the world by 2020. The company believes the key to progress is taking a customized, regional approach to use corporate lands and collaborative partnerships to restore, protect and promote biodiversity.

Innovation & Technology

New CFSI Audit to Validate Responsible Sourcing of 3TG by Downstream Companies

New CFSI Audit to Validate Responsible Sourcing of 3TG by Downstream Companies

Health & Healthcare

A Path Toward Culturally Competent Health Care

Since the launch of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), minorities across the U.S. have made significant gains in healthcare coverage. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation reports that between 2013 and 2015 the uninsured rates fell for all racial and ethnic groups. While the future of the ACA is uncertain, the fact is that our country is becoming more demographically diverse. Pew Research projects that by 2055 there will not be a single racial or ethnic majority.

Environment

Nevada Public Radio Recently Hosted its Fall 2016 Recycle Day Event

Nevada Public Radio recently hosted its Fall 2016 Recycle Day event in partnership with its participating sponsors including Republic Services, Goodwill of Southern Nevada, Care Coalition, Blind Center and Shred-It.

Health & Healthcare

Local Experts: Panama Technical Service Training Center

Medtronic opened a 3,500-square-foot Technical Service Training Center in Panama City, Panama. Strategically located, the new training center is more accessible and convenient for biomedical technicians traveling from countries in Central and South America for hands-on technical training.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Fair Trade's Holiday Gift Guide

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Sodexo Employees Support Military Families Abroad Through Coupon Collection Program

November is Military Family Appreciation Month, and the Sodexo Employee Business Resource Group , HONOR, celebrated by leveraging the Support Our Troops® Troopons® program, which collects and sends coupons to military members stationed overseas and their families. To date, Sodexo teams have provided more than $3 million worth of coupons through the program.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Restaurateur Danny Meyer Sees a Future Where Guests Never Ask For the Check

Wearing an Apple Watch probably won’t help you lose weight, but the devices might make your visit to a fine dining establishment better. Come to think of it, that will probably make you gain weight, but at least you’ll be gaining it in the best possible way.

Diversity & Inclusion

Are Your CSR Goals Aligned with Your Hiring Practices? [Video]

On November 17, 2016, VolunteerMatch and Year Up joined forces to help companies learn how to unify their commitment to diversity across multiple departments, including their corporate social responsibility (CSR) department. Salesforce.org and Omnicom Media Group joined the discussion and shared their experiences from the field.

Events, Media & Communications

Business Leaders Propel Sustainable Urban Agrihood in Detroit

Sustainable Brands initiates collaboration between Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, BASF, General Motors, Herman-Miller, Green Standards and others

Diversity & Inclusion

Introducing the Antea Group Syracuse Office!

The Syracuse office is a lively crew that works on projects across all practices. We have particular expertise in regulatory compliance and support, enivironmental liability management, and sustainability and serve major clients in the food & beverage, high tech, and chemical industries. We pride ourselves on being jacks-of-all-trades, and try to incorporate staff cross-training as much as possible.

Health & Healthcare

Less Sugar, Great Taste: A Scientific Breakthrough from Nestlé

Events, Media & Communications

Raise Your Reporting Game at the GRI Reporters’ Summit and Greenbiz 17

Join us in Arizona in February 2017 for the GRI Reporters' Summit and GreenBiz 17 Annual Forum. Gain practical solutions and tools to address common sustainability challenges facing businesses in today's changing landscape.

Environment

Major Investors Applaud Move to Stay the Course on GHG Rules

In response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that it would stay the course on 2012 greenhouse gas (GHG) standards for automobiles and light duty trucks, major investors released statements supporting the decision:

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Meet Bano Fatima, A Woman Empowering Weavers and Artisans in Rural India

Latest Campaigns

  1. 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...
  2. KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service
    KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...
  3. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  4. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  5. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  6. Community Impact
    Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.
  7. 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...
  8. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  9. Emergency Response
    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  10. GoDaddy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
    Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...
  11. Opportunity for All
    At Trane Technologies, uplifting our communities and workforce is the key to our continued success. We focus on broadening access to education...
  12. Purposeful Technology
    Keysight helps build a better planet through our sustainably developed electronic measurement solutions that accelerate innovations to change lives...
  13. Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator
    The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...
  14. Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
    Vision of Milano Cortina 2026 The Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 is the first Olympic winter Games planned and organised under Olympic...
  15. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...