Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Health & Healthcare

Taco Bell Goes Beyond Meat — Literally and Figuratively

As for those colorful sauce packets that either end up in landfill or in the condiment morgue of your refrigerator, change is also on the horizon. Last week, Taco Bell said it would work with TerraCycle to find those sauce packets a second life.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Leveraging our Resources to Make our Communities Stronger

From large-scale volunteer efforts driven by Sands Cares to sustainability initiatives spearheaded by Sands ECO360, we approach this mission at the granular level, and also leverage our resources to affect change on a much larger scale, as well.

Innovation & Technology

Black & Veatch Promotes CIO Irvin Bishop Jr. to Executive Vice President

Having intensified Black & Veatch’s focus on deployment of data optimization and other transformative technologies to bolster decision-making and value to clients, Irvin Bishop Jr., CIO, has been promoted to executive vice president.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Schneider Electric Earns 2021 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence Award

Schneider Electric, the global leader in energy management, automation, and sustainability, today announced that it has received the 2021 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Diversity & Inclusion

Women in Leadership: Mentorship, Progression and Confidence

Women’s History Month may be over, but our recognition of women’s contributions isn’t. In this continuation of our women’s leadership blog series, we share more of our women leaders’ pledges for equality and commitments to challenging the status quo.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Superheroes of Social-Emotional Learning Honored on National Teachers' Day

Celebrating educators across the United States for their heroic efforts to support youth mental health and wellbeing, the Life’s Good: Experience Happiness program is honoring America’s superhero teachers in recognition of National Teachers’ Day, May 4.

Events, Media & Communications

PSEG & TechUnited Look to Entrepreneurs for Innovative Solutions That Promote Electrified Transportation

The Challenge is open to startups that are working on innovative solutions for promoting electrified transportation and will provide the winner with a $50,000 prize and mentorship from PSEG executives.

Innovation & Technology

How Technology Is Achieving Better Natural Disaster Preparedness, Recovery, and Resilience

Lenovo is the Technology Partner for second edition of the SAFE STEPS D-Tech Awards, in partnership with Prudence Foundation, together with Humanitarian Partner International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Mohawk Group Launches Data Tide: Innovative Carpet Collection Supports Nature With Data

Data Tide is one part of Mohawk Group’s larger sustainability effort, The Waterways Project. This project highlights new products, technologies and initiatives to give back to and restore the living rivers that sustain life.

Diversity & Inclusion

Franklin Templeton Celebrates Women's History Month

Franklin Templeton’s Women at FT business resource group (BRG), in partnership with its specialist investment organizations, hosted more than 30 events to honor International Women’s Day (IWD) and Month.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Bank to Provide 1 Million Meals to Fight Hunger Across Bank's Footprint

The meals are being donated to food organizations across the Bank’s 11-state retail footprint in honor of the Bank’s annual companywide community celebration in May, centered on May 3. The date, 5/3 on the calendar, is recognized as Fifth Third Day.

Health & Healthcare

Podcast: An Appetite for Opportunity: Changing Dietary Goals

In this episode of the CGF Podcast, host Louise Chester speaks to Markus Stripf, SpoonGuru, Georgie Altman, Google and Emma Burton, Price Waterhouse Cooper to find out more about a new report recently published by their respective companies.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Join HSUS and HSI's #BeCrueltyFree Campaign to End Cosmetic Testing on Animals

Cruelty-free beauty is on its way to becoming mainstream globally, driven in large part by the #BeCrueltyFree campaign led by Humane Society International, the Humane Society of the United States, our affiliates, and partners.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Goodyear Installs Air Purification Systems and Develops a Greenbelt Area in India

Goodyear India Limited (GIL), as a part of Goodyear’s Better Future framework and CSR initiative “Solutions to Air Pollution (SAP),”has collaborated with Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF), Corridor Management Unit of Mathura Road, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), and Indian Pollution Control Association (IPCA) for initiatives to protect the environment, to improve the quality of air that people breathe in Ballabhgarh and Faridabad and to raise awareness regarding air pollution and steps that can be taken to reduce it.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

VMware Citizen Philanthropists Celebrate Earth Month

VMware Citizen Philanthropists are active in their communities all year, adapting their efforts based on the needs of the nonprofits they serve and the communities of which they are a part.

Environment

UGG Announces Commitments To Restore Our Earth This Earth Day 2021

UGG has committed to restoration across four focus areas with an Earth Day theme for 2021 of "Restore Our Earth." Through FEEL GOOD, the brand's journey towards a more sustainable future focuses on restoring the planet.

Diversity & Inclusion

Truist Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

May commemorates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and we’re shining a light on the tremendous contributions and cultures of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Stellantis Named Among Top Companies Recruiting Indigenous STEM Professionals

The editors of Winds of Change magazine have selected Stellantis to the publication’s annual list of top companies setting the standard for providing careers, development and recruiting opportunities for Indigenous STEM professionals in North America

Responsible Production & Consumption

Logitech Gaming Products Now Labeled Climate Pledge Friendly on amazon.com

Logitech Gaming Products are now signposted on amazon.com as “Climate Pledge Friendly”. This means eco-conscious consumers can also search for devices, which are “Climate Pledge Friendly” and find our gaming products – LogitechG and ASTRO Gaming.

Education

GP PRO and Consumer Products Reimagine Opportunities in the Community

The Georgia-Pacific Buddy program is an employee-volunteer tutoring initiative that began over 20 years ago. The program was established to enhance the academic skills of students at M. Agnes Jones (MAJ) Elementary in the Atlanta Public Schools.

Sustainable Development Goals

Companies Commit to SDGs Collaboration

A new program to enhance corporate reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by making it more relevant to stakeholders, is now underway – bringing together senior representatives from international companies.

Diversity & Inclusion

Engineering a More Equal Future

Women are generally underrepresented in the engineering sector where less than one in 10 qualified engineers in Hong Kong are female. CLP is taking innovative steps to even up the profession’s gender imbalance.

Research, Reports & Publications

SCS Global Services Applauds Release of New Report by the United Nations Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action

SCS Global Services (SCS), a global leader in third-party sustainability and climate certification, congratulates the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action (FICCA) for publication last week of its groundbreaking report outlining the processes that contribute to low carbon sources of cotton and polyester.

Events, Media & Communications

Food Safety: An Opportunity to Rethink, Reset and Recharge

Around the world, an estimated 600 million people fall ill after eating contaminated food each year, and concerns over food safety have been intensified by COVID-19.

Health & Healthcare

Kansas City Lights the Night with a New Research Institute

Like many teenagers his age, when Ben noticed that something was a little off - he grabbed his phone. For weeks, Ben was going to school, participating in wrestling, and doing what most teenagers do in their free time - hanging out with friends.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  2. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  3. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  4. Recognition of our Company
    As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...
  5. Aflac Insights
    Learn more about Aflac’s survey findings to better understand workplace trends as well as consumer attitudes, habits and opinions toward health and...
  6. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  7. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  8. Aflac Voices
    Hear from Aflac’s senior leaders and subject matter experts about industry trends and more.
  9. Plastics Footprint
    We aspire to be a leader in driving innovative solutions that address the problem of plastic pollution and enable a circular economy. We are committed...
  10. Accelerating access to healthcare technology
    We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...
  11. Health & Nutrition
    Be the leading nutritious and sustainable product development partner for our customers, developing industry leading solutions that enable the...
  12. Sustainability by Antea Group
    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
  13. 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...
  14. Made to Move Communities
    About the Made to Move Communities program Launched in 2020, the Made to Move Communities program engages young minds to explore real-world...
  15. Cascale Events
    Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...