Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

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

Nov 18, 2015 12:30 PM ET

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.

Education

Microsoft and Code.org team up to bring ‘Minecraft’ to Hour of Code

Nov 18, 2015 12:00 PM ET

Education

Indiana STEM Students Get Front-Row Seat to Civic Debut

Nov 18, 2015 12:00 PM ET

Environment

Happy Retirement: 11 Reflections on the Chevrolet Carbon-Reduction Initiative

Nov 18, 2015 11:25 AM ET

Please join us for a retirement celebration honoring … 8 million metric tons of carbon. A little unconventional, sure. But so was the Chevrolet carbon-reduction initiative.

Environment

Chevrolet Meets Community-Based Carbon-Reduction Goal

Nov 18, 2015 11:15 AM ET

Chevrolet over the last five years has prevented 8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the earth’s atmosphere, roughly equivalent to the CO2 emissions from the annual energy used in every home in Detroit.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Raising Compassionate Kids Through Acts of Kindness and Volunteer Service

Nov 18, 2015 11:00 AM ET

In honor of Family Volunteer Day, Nov. 21, Points of Light and Disney are recognizing families with the Daily Point of Light Award. Meet the Sjolseths of McKinney, Texas, and nominate someone in your community.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Astellas Named a Best Place to Work for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality for Second Consecutive Year

Nov 18, 2015 11:00 AM ET

Astellas Pharma achieved a perfect score on the 2016 Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s (HRC) annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for the second consecutive year. The CEI is a national benchmarking tool used to rate companies on policies and practices concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employee equality.

Environment

DuPont Announces 2020 Sustainability Goals

Nov 18, 2015 10:45 AM ET

DuPont today announced its 2020 Sustainability Goals as the next step in its more than 25-year commitment to sustainability. The centerpiece of the new DuPont 2020 Sustainability Goals is a companywide commitment to embed sustainability into its innovation process and R&D pipeline.

Innovation & Technology

Barclays Supports Global Entrepreneurship Week

Nov 18, 2015 10:25 AM ET

Environment

CBRE's Climate Change Transparency Recognized by CDP for Third Consecutive Year

Nov 18, 2015 10:25 AM ET

Responsible Production & Consumption

Trim Tab Magazine | The Seductive Ideology of Craft

Nov 18, 2015 10:10 AM ET

Peter Korn, author of Why We Make Things and Why it Matters, enlightens us with the beauty, intricacies, and complexities of craftsmanship, delving into its ideology, history, and culture.

Environment

Agreement Between Municipality, Port Authority and Costa Cruises for Sustainable Development in Savona

Nov 18, 2015 10:00 AM ET

Today, the Municipality of Savona, the Port Authority of Savona and Costa Cruises signed a three-year memorandum of understanding for sustainable development in the cruise sector in Savona.

Environment

Addressing the Root Causes of Climate Change by Reinventing How We Work and Live

Nov 18, 2015 9:45 AM ET

Environment

Connect to Good: A Roadmap to 2025

Nov 18, 2015 9:35 AM ET

Our world will hold roughly 8 billion people by 2025. Even more astounding: some experts say there will be more than 1 trillion connected devices — measuring, analyzing and networking to give us more information than ever before. The possibilities will be endless, so we must be strategic in order to seize them.

Events, Media & Communications

NAEM EHS Management Forum 2015 Recap

Nov 18, 2015 9:35 AM ET

Antea Group recently wrapped up our 12th year as one of the primary sponsors of NAEM’s EHS Management Forum, held last month in Charlotte, NC.

Diversity & Inclusion

Straight Talk: An Innovative Approach to Bring Millennials, Gen X-ers and Boomers Together in the Workplace

Nov 18, 2015 9:30 AM ET

Environment

AT&T Commits to Goal Accelerating Technology’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions

Nov 18, 2015 9:30 AM ET

AT&T* today announced its goal to enable carbon savings 10 times the footprint of its operations by 2025. By enhancing the efficiency of its network and delivering low-carbon customer solutions, AT&T supports the use of technology as a method to address and reduce carbon emissions.

Innovation & Technology

United for Wildlife, Google.org and ARM Unite to Launch Conservation Technology Network

Nov 18, 2015 9:25 AM ET

WILDLABS.NET is a new digital portal designed to connect conservationists, technologists, engineers, data scientists, entrepreneurs and thought leaders to support them to find, share and create effective technology-based solutions to protect threatened wildlife and habitats.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

AECOM and Project Frog Announce New Partnership

Nov 18, 2015 9:05 AM ET

AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, and Project Frog, Inc., the leading innovator in advanced component buildings, are pleased to announce the formation of a partnership to address the increasing need for data centers. The “Rapid Deployment Team” delivers new buildings that combine modular innovation with the quality and flexibility of traditional construction methods.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Responsible Investing Provides Careers for Women

Nov 18, 2015 9:05 AM ET

I recently attended the PRI in Person conference on the Principles for Responsible Investment held in London last September and came away quite impressed. While I came away with plenty of new information to digest, and more than a bit overwhelmed, the reoccurring theme that stood out was not the title of any specific session, it was the number of women in attendance at the conference — 40 percent of the delegates and 35 percent of the speakers were females.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Diageo Recognized by Human Rights Campaign as “Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality” for Eighth Year in a Row

Nov 18, 2015 9:00 AM ET

Diageo, a global leader in beverage alcohol, is proud to announce that it has earned a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

BNY Mellon Live@ Wharton: The Story Behind Social Finance

Nov 18, 2015 9:00 AM ET

Social impact industry leaders from a range of organizations – including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, MIT, The Cordes Foundation and The Kitchen – took the stage in front of more than 200 attendees at the recent Wharton Social Impact Conference to talk about running a successful, sustainable business, while generating positive social impact.

Education

Walmart, KFC, Taco Bell and Southeastern Grocers Partner with GED Testing Service to Launch GEDWorks; Offers Employees Free Program to Earn GED Credential

Nov 18, 2015 8:05 AM ET

GED Testing Service has partnered with some of the nation’s largest employers and most recognizable brands – including Walmart, KFC, Taco Bell and Southeastern Grocers – to create GEDWorksTM, a comprehensive program free for employees who want to earn their GED credential.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Macomb Innovation Fund Awards $300,000 to Five Detroit-area Technology-focused Startups

Nov 18, 2015 8:00 AM ET

Five early-stage companies from Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne counties will receive $300,000 in funding from the Innovation Fund Macomb Community College, Powered by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Environment

21st Century Fox Receives Perfect Score for Climate Change Disclosure in 2015 CDP Report

Nov 18, 2015 7:00 AM ET

The environmental not-for-profit CDP has commended 21st Century Fox for the transparency and thoroughness of its corporate sustainability program, awarding the company a perfect score of 100 in its latest report. CDP assesses the depth and quality of the climate change related information that companies disclose to investors and the global market place, and the organization's new report ranks 21st Century Fox among the top 10% of S&P 500 companies, placing it on the Climate Disclosure Leadership Index. This is the seventh consecutive year that the company has earned a spot on the CDLI.