Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Environment

Improving Quality of Life by Bringing Nature Into the City

Oct 31, 2018 1:00 PM ET

A $200,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Wells Fargo will improve water quality, increase tree canopy and create local jobs in Albuquerque. The three-part project is an integral piece of The Nature Conservancy’s Urban Conservation Program designed to bring more nature into the city to improve quality of life.

Environment

BIER Executive Director Spotlight: Nick Martin

Oct 31, 2018 1:00 PM ET

Twice a month the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) highlights their members' beverage industry sustainability insights and ideas in their BIER Member Spotlight series. These spotlights include their answers to questions about their company's sustainability achievements and strategy, practical insights from BIER, interesting facts, and more.

Diversity & Inclusion

Merck Commits to Disability Inclusion, Joining ILO Global Business and Disability Network

Oct 31, 2018 12:30 PM ET

We are honored to join the ILO Global Business and Disability Network. Ensuring Merck is a place where everyone of all abilities can thrive and develop is a top priority for us. We’re proud to join this wonderful organization.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

2018 Youth Homelessness Summit | Faces of Collaboration: Kathi, Michele and Alex

Oct 31, 2018 12:20 PM ET

The Las Vegas community joins together on November 2 at the 2nd Annual Youth Homelessness Summit in Las Vegas. Below are three stories from this collaboration between Las Vegas Sands and the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth.

Environment

EHS Director’s Cut: 7 Side-Splitting Slip, Trip, & Fall Videos to Inspire a Culture of Safety

Oct 31, 2018 12:10 PM ET

Antea Group shows you 7 videos to keep your employees laughing and learning EHS lessons at the same time.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comcast NBCUniversal Supports Hurricane Michael Relief Efforts in Florida

Oct 31, 2018 12:00 PM ET

In the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, which devastated parts of the Florida Panhandle and surrounding areas, Comcast NBCUniversal has committed to provide $700,000 to support relief efforts, including cash and in-kind contributions.

Education

Burps, Sharks, Your Insides and Other Scientific Matters

Oct 31, 2018 11:25 AM ET

AAAS members including three AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows (STPF) spent a fall day at a DC middle school sharing their experiences to help spur interest in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) careers.

Innovation & Technology

Curiosity Cube Helps Stoke Lowell Students' Excitement for Science

Oct 31, 2018 11:20 AM ET

Students at Moody Elementary School pressed virtual reality goggles up to their faces Wednesday afternoon outside the Curiosity Cube, a traveling science lab inside a shipping container.

Diversity & Inclusion

PNC: How the Women Presidents’ Organization Empowers Female Entrepreneurs

Oct 31, 2018 11:20 AM ET

Women own 36 percent of the privately-owned companies in the United States -- nearly 8.4 million businesses. Collectively, they generate $2.5 trillion in annual sales and have created more than 8 million jobs.[1] Over the past 20 years, the number of women-owned businesses has grown at almost four times the rate of men-owned firms.[2]

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

VIDEO | Barclays Citizenship Awards: Colleagues in the Community -- Domestic Violence Awareness Team

Oct 31, 2018 11:05 AM ET

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

AEG’s LA Galaxy Foundation and StubHub Center Foundation Host 12th Annual Treats-N-Suites Halloween Bash at StubHub Center

Oct 31, 2018 11:00 AM ET

Green Infrastructure

Five Clean-Tech Startups Added to Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator

Oct 31, 2018 10:45 AM ET

The Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), a technology incubator and platform funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation and co-administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has selected the fourth round of clean-tech and energy efficiency startup companies to join the program.

Environment

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Aligns To Big Goals In Environmental Sustainability, Signs New Plastics Economy Global Commitment

Oct 31, 2018 10:25 AM ET

Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc. today announced the company is joining an ambitious effort to move the world closer to a circular economy in which plastic never becomes waste. Together with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the UN Environment Programme, and many industry-leading companies, governments, and NGOs this commitment will strive to meet goals to tackle one of the most urgent environmental issues of our time: plastic waste and the necessity of consumer packaging reform.

Research, Reports & Publications

Electric Vehicle Adoption Moving Utilities to Plan for a Zero-Emissions Future

Oct 31, 2018 10:00 AM ET

Separated by decades of progress and technology’s endless march, it’s easy to think electric vehicles share little heritage with their internal combustion forebears. But even as they bookend the automotive spectrum, today’s EVs are much like the first automobiles in one important respect: When the first cars were made, they had an outsized dependency on infrastructure. Without a robust system of roads (let alone highways), what was the incentive to buy?

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Teresa Parker, President EMEA Northern Trust, Featured for the Third Time in Financial News Most Influential Women in Finance

Oct 31, 2018 9:45 AM ET

Innovation & Technology

How Data Privacy Regulations Affect Your Supply Chain

Oct 31, 2018 9:40 AM ET

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Aflac Japan Primary Sponsor of “Gold Ribbon Walking” Events, Enhance the Quality of Life for Children With Cancer

Oct 31, 2018 9:20 AM ET

In Japan, Aflac insures 1 out of every 4 household, and Aflac Japan is proud to be the primary sponsor of “Gold Ribbon Walking” events, which the company supports to enhance the quality of life for children with cancer and improving the cure rate.

Health & Healthcare

Bravery, Valor, and the Art of Moving Forward in the Fight Against Breast Cancer

Oct 31, 2018 9:05 AM ET

Research, Reports & Publications

Caterpillar and the Space Age Chemical

Oct 30, 2018 7:00 PM ET

Grinder burn is caused by improper grinding in the manufacturing process and can cause parts to fail prematurely. Caterpillar routinely uses an acid etch check on a variety of manufactured parts to detect any presence of grinder burn.

Sustainable Development Goals

7-Eleven’s RENEW™ Reduced Emissions Program and Customers Help Plant 100,000 Trees With The Arbor Day Foundation

Oct 30, 2018 6:30 PM ET

In one year, 7-Eleven, Inc. and its customers have planted 100,000 trees and offset 32,448 metric tons in carbon emissions through the RENEW™ reduced emissions fuel program. That is the equivalent of powering 1.6 million homes for a whole day with no environmental impact.

Environment

As Brazil's New President Threatens the Amazon, Brazilian Entrepreneurs Create a Device for Large-scale Forest Restoration

Oct 30, 2018 5:45 PM ET

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation just awarded the top prize in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, the $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize to a Brazilian team working in reforestation in the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil.

Energy

eBook: Putting Energy Storage to Work for California’s K-12 Schools

Oct 30, 2018 5:00 PM ET

Battery-based energy storage is a proven technology that can enable your schools to use more self-generated solar power and help stabilize the grid, while significantly reducing district energy costs.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: Six Down, Many More to Go

Oct 30, 2018 4:45 PM ET

What matters most, however, are not the conversations that we have with our guests. It’s the conversations our guests have among themselves. Those conversations are the largest part of why we host RayDay, and we can’t know even a small fraction of what comes from them.

Research, Reports & Publications

The Sustainability Imperative: Business and Investor Outlook

Oct 30, 2018 4:30 PM ET

Do investors have the information they need to adequately manage risk and identify sustainable investment opportunities? Are companies prioritizing sustainable strategies throughout their organizations? A new Bloomberg survey of U.S. and European investors and corporations, explored in this paper, seeks to uncover how these groups believe they are faring on their path towards a sustainable future.

Education

New Digital STEM-career Curriculum Takes High-school Students Behind-the-scenes With Scientists and Engineers

Oct 30, 2018 4:00 PM ET

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Discovery Education on Generation Beyond: Aviation, a digital STEM curriculum that takes students behind-the-scenes with Lockheed Martin engineers and scientists to solve real-world technology challenges, from fighting wildfires to making flight suits for military pilots safer.