Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Research, Reports & Publications

Hallmark Publishes First Social Responsibility Report

Aug 4, 2017 8:05 AM ET

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CEO Perspective: A Closer Look at Mission-Driven Business

Aug 3, 2017 8:00 PM ET

Companies are focusing more on the power of purpose and mission to engage their employees and help create a corporate culture that is compelling to today’s diverse and socially conscious workforce. This translates into changes in the tactics and execution of what a mission-driven organization looks like. For instance, charitable efforts have evolved from annual fundraising campaigns to a people-centric approach to Goodness, with year-round giving and volunteering programs that allow employees to choose which charity they support. With this, they’re seeing employees who are far more engaged, loyal and productive.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Getting Their Hands Dirty

Aug 3, 2017 4:45 PM ET

Whirlpool Corporation interns joined employees to volunteer and build homes as part of the company's longstanding partnership with Habitat for Humanity.

Diversity & Inclusion

Women's Work: Inside The Rising Trend of Female Leaders in Manufacturing

Aug 3, 2017 4:30 PM ET

Whirlpool Corporation Manufacturing Operations Director of Clothes Dryers, Kristin Day, discusses being a female leader in an industry historically dominated by men, and the importance of being an advocate of recruiting women into manufacturing roles.

Diversity & Inclusion

Engaging and Empowering our Employees to Build the Business Case for Diversity & Inclusion

Aug 3, 2017 4:00 PM ET

Diversity & Inclusion in the corporate setting has long evolved from solely celebrating our differences to building the business case for Diversity & Inclusion.

Diversity & Inclusion

Major League Baseball Players Association & Former Players Are Determined to Cultivate Future Stars

Aug 3, 2017 3:05 PM ET

In recent years, with the number of African-American players on MLB rosters dwindling at an alarming rate, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), its active and in-active members have become more determined to help eliminate social and economic barriers to playing the game they love.

Environment

Colleen Vien, Your Turn NH: Leading the Way on Energy

Aug 3, 2017 2:00 PM ET

As a global outdoor lifestyle brand based in the beautiful Granite State, Timberland has always been driven by a commitment to innovate and operate in a responsible manner. We’ve found that a commitment to responsible use of resources is good for the planet, and good for business.

Green Infrastructure

Lichen-Inspired Carpet Awarded the Living Product Challenge Petal Certification

Aug 3, 2017 1:45 PM ET

Jason McLennan, founder of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) and 2017 HIVE dean, worked for eight months with Mohawk to develop flooring that brought the natural beauty of lichen inside. As he explains in this short video, Mohawk now offers nine carpets that honor a series of different species of lichen with unique growing patterns and colors.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Run With Us

Aug 3, 2017 1:15 PM ET

Love to get your body moving? Want to make a difference for people living in poverty all over the world? Join Whole Planet Foundation’s Virtual 10K Run, which kicks off today. Event registration fees will benefit impoverished entrepreneurs with the chance to start or expand a home-based business and lift themselves and their families out of poverty. In fact, the first microloan from Whole Planet Foundation’s partner in Rwanda is the same as the price of registration, $35.

Health & Healthcare

Cargill to Modernize Harrisonburg, Va., Hatchery, Improving Turkey Health, Biosecurity and Worker Safety

Aug 3, 2017 1:15 PM ET

Modernization work totaling $7 million has commenced at Cargill Protein’s Harrisonburg, Va., turkey hatchery, with a focus on improving turkey health, biosecurity and worker safety. Construction work is being performed by Nielsen Builders, Inc., of Harrisonburg, with installation of new cutting edge equipment technology expected to take 24 months.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fighting Hunger in Affluent Counties

Aug 3, 2017 12:45 PM ET

We often think of food insecurity and hunger as something that happens in other countries, or only in the poorest parts of our nation. But the reality is that people are hungry all over the country, including in some of the nation’s wealthiest towns and counties.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Income-Qualified Families to Receive Long Beach Green Homes

Aug 3, 2017 12:10 PM ET

The lives of four low-income families will change for the better next year when they receive the keys to new energy-efficient homes in Long Beach, where construction recently kicked off.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Through ServiceWorks Program, Citi Employee Finds the Perfect Opportunity to Serve

Aug 3, 2017 11:30 AM ET

Robert McGhee, vice president of community development at Citi, has been a part of the Chicago banking community for more than two decades, with roles in retail banking, mortgage banking and community affairs. He supports the Citi Foundation’s partnership with Points of Light and the Corporation for National and Community Service to bring a groundbreaking initiative, ServiceWorks, to help underserved youth in U.S. cities where the economic downturn has intensified their struggles.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

General Motors Sustainability Newsletter - August 2017

Aug 3, 2017 11:25 AM ET

Nearly 100 GM facilities participated in World Environment Day, an observation established by the United Nations. This year’s theme: “connect people to nature.” While all of GM’s manufacturing sites conduct at least one environmental outreach activity a year, this is the second time GM rallied its teams to measure its collective impact within roughly the same period.

Diversity & Inclusion

You Grow, Girl!: Carrie Vollmer-Sanders

Aug 3, 2017 11:15 AM ET

Sustainable Development Goals

UN Global Compact Bulletin (August 2017)

Aug 3, 2017 10:15 AM ET

UN Global Compact's Action Platforms bring business leaders, civil society, Governments and the UN together to shape the future of action on the Global Goals.

Environment

Domtar Sustainability: Industrial Ecology Made Real

Aug 3, 2017 10:15 AM ET

A long-time ideal of sustainability has been the concept of industrial ecology—the notion that industrial processes would benefit from mimicking the closed-loop efficiency of a natural ecosystem. Unlike conventional industrial processes, an ecosystem is not a process with a beginning and an end. An ecosystem is a continuous cycle through which materials flow.

Responsible Production & Consumption

NeWSolutions is Bringing New ‘Green’ Solutions to Tulsa

Aug 3, 2017 10:00 AM ET

Northeast Waste Solutions (NeWSolutions) is a Tulsa-based solid waste collection and hauling company. The company was founded in June 2010 by stakeholders of Tulsa Refuse Inc., a company that held Tulsa's trash-hauling contract for 32 years. In 2012, the newly formed company was awarded the contract from the Tulsa Authority for the Recovery of Energy to be the service provider responsible for the City of Tulsa's residential refuse and recycling collection.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Weatherford Nominee for Fleet Manager of the Year

Aug 3, 2017 10:00 AM ET

Congratulations Lee Pierce for being nominated for Automotive Fleet 's Professional Fleet Manager of the Year Award for the second year in a row. Nominees are full-time commercial fleet managers who control a company-owned or leased fleet in excess of 100 cars and light trucks combined, and who are recognized nationally among their peers for their unique abilities and accomplishments.

Green Infrastructure

Innovation Features: How to Shape a Proposal—and the Future of the Healthy Building Movement

Aug 3, 2017 9:55 AM ET

Innovation has long been the driver behind WELL. That’s why we aim to recognize projects that go above and beyond to implement strategies that address human health in a novel way. WELL Innovations can set your project apart and give you the opportunity to pioneer creative solutions that can advance and evolve healthy building.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Estimuladores Económicos, Incluso Después del Cierre de Marlin

Aug 3, 2017 9:10 AM ET

Environment

A Plastic Bench as a Lesson in Recycling

Aug 3, 2017 9:05 AM ET

A bench created from 500 pounds of recycled plastic caps collected by Essity and Fairview 4H Club members, and sorted by the 4H Club, was recently dedicated to Outagamie County Parks (placed next to the Newton Blackmour State Trail) and in the Village of Black Creek, Wisconsin.

Research, Reports & Publications

Caesars Entertainment Publishes 2017 Citizenship Report with New Strategic Framework

Aug 3, 2017 9:00 AM ET

In 2016, Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ:CZR) introduced the gaming and entertainment industry’s most aggressive carbon reduction targets, secured Triple A scores in three CDP rankings and, with its related entities, delivered $5.7m of contributed societal value for every $10m in gross revenue, almost triple the estimated average of U.S. corporations.

Innovation & Technology

Cyber-Defenders in the New Battle to Protect Big, Connected Machines

Aug 3, 2017 8:50 AM ET

Critical infrastructure comprises the giant systems that support modern life, from power plants and water treatment plants to mass-transit systems. These facilities are operated through industrial control systems, sensors and components that talk to each other and to facility operators. These systems, like a smartphone, provides easy access to information and controls that would otherwise be difficult to get.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Hunger Is Spotlight: Northern Illinois Food Bank Fights Childhood Hunger

Aug 3, 2017 6:00 AM ET

Hunger Is, a joint charitable program of the Albertsons Companies Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), has been working with community-based organizations across the U.S. and national partners, like WhyHunger, to help end childhood hunger by investing in nu