Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Michigan Theatre to Save $20,000 a Year Via Consumers Energy Help

While maintaining its historic feel, the Michigan Theatre of Jackson is embracing a flair for the future.Consumers Energy has donated more than $230,000 in energy efficiency products since 2013, including replacing the theater's boiler for $195,000 in 2016.

Environment

Cargill and Heineken Employees Give Up Their Saturday to Help Litter-pick

A group of Cargill employees collected 20 bags of litter from the brook near their place of work. The Big Tidy Up took place along Yazor Brook in Hereford and then continued on to Red Barn Drive, Grandstand Road, Widemarsh Common, Yazor Brook cycle path and Yazor Road.They also put up bird and bat boxes, sparrow houses and bee shelters and sowed wild flower seeds.

Sustainable Development Goals

HP Australia Achieves Significant Recycling Milestone

HP Australia has become the first organisation in the country to have recycled 10 million print cartridges via its partnership with Cartridges for Planet Ark. Cartridges for Planet Ark’ (C4PA) is an innovative recycling program that provides Australians with a free, easy-to-use and environmentally-accredited way to recycle their printer cartridges with a zero waste to landfill commitment. HP is a founding member of C4PA, which was created in 2003.

Sustainable Development Goals

Unreasonable Impact | Water Scarcity, Micro-Entrepreneurship, and War: Q&A with Desolenator

Among the many crises bearing down on our collective horizon, perhaps none is so uniquely threatening to populations worldwide as that of water scarcity. Tomorrow morning, more than one billion people will wake up without access to clean water, a number that is only expected to quadruple by 2030.

Research, Reports & Publications

Leonardo Sustainability and Innovation Report 2016, a Commitment to a Responsible Business Conduct

Leonardo, formerly known as Finmeccanica, top player in Aerospace, Defence and Security, releases the 2016 Sustainability and Innovation Report, the first with the new brand.

Diversity & Inclusion

Advice for Women Going into Mining, from De Beers Group's Liezl Maritz

Environmentalist Liezl Maritz explains why she works at Namdeb and offers advice for women going into mining…

Education

Meet Amgen Scholars Alumni Alex B. Munster

To learn more about the Amgen Scholars Program, please visit our website and check out the #AmgenScholars hashtag on Twitter.

Education

Wells Fargo Launches ApprenticeshipUSA Program for Veterans

In honor of National Military Appreciation Month, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced it has launched its ApprenticeshipUSA program for veterans. A Department of Labor program, ApprenticeshipUSA offers companies the tools needed to develop a highly skilled workforce and provides veterans the opportunity to earn a salary while learning additional skills necessary to succeed in high-demand civilian careers. In addition to ApprenticeshipUSA, Wells Fargo offers other veteran career transition initiatives, including the Veteran Employment Transition (VET) Internship Program, American Corporate Partners mentorships, and scholarships and emergency grants through Scholarship America.

Events, Media & Communications

International Living Future Institute Kicks off Living Future unConference in Seattle

The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) today kicked off the 2017 unConference, a sold-out gathering of 1,000+ experts in green building, place making and regenerative design who are celebrating the “Genius & Courage” of a movement that is fast gaining momentum.

Innovation & Technology

Powering Today’s Mobile Economy

Raj Subramaniam, Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President at FedEx Corporation, anticipates mobility as an agent of remarkable opportunity for connecting and empowering people across the planet.

Events, Media & Communications

Cone Communications Sponsors Sustainable Brands Conference For Sixth Year

For the sixth year in a row, Cone Communications will join Sustainable Brands 2017 (SB’17) as a sponsor, helping to lead and facilitate the exciting corporate social responsibility (CSR) conversation taking place over the four-day conference in Detroit on May 22-25. Cone executives will also be speaking at three sessions while at the event.

Events, Media & Communications

Join Susquehanna Service Dogs for the Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community

These eleven service dogs in training are ready to walk! Susquehanna Service Dogs (SSD) is one of 48 organizations participating in the Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community on May 20 at HACC in Harrisburg, PA. Thanks to Highmark Blue Shield, which underwrites the cost of the walk, all the money raised by SSD’s walkers comes directly to SSD.

Education

Samsung Gifts Graduates of Good Morning America’s Class of 2017

On Thursday, May 11, Good Morning America honored graduates from the class of 2017, highlighting standout students with unique stories and backgrounds. The segment featured students who are graduating from high school or college this year and showcased advice from celebrities—including Brad Paisley, Mark Cuban, Tony Robbins and Adam Sandler.

Environment

Sodexo Ranks Top Metropolitan Areas for Sustainable Workplaces to Commemorate 2017 World FM Day

Facilities managers play a critical role in conserving energy and water, maintaining air quality and using sustainable products in overseeing the daily operations of an office building. In recognition of World FM Day, Sodexo, world leader in quality of life services, assessed the top metropolitan areas boasting office buildings that have accumulated the highest number of per-capita LEED-certified points.

Green Infrastructure

Trane Celebrates World FM Day by Honoring the Dedication of our Building’s Heroes

Trane®, a leading global provider of indoor comfort solutions and services and a brand of Ingersoll Rand, is celebrating the eighth annual World FM Day by recognizing facility managers across North America who have a track record of excellence in the buildings and projects they manage.

Media & Communications

How Communications Can Elevate Clients’ CSR Initiatives

A key challenge for many companies is communicating CSR (corporate social responsibility) activities that remain true to their brand. As communicators, we have a responsibility to help our clients understand what will make their CSR initiatives impactful, relatable and inspiring. Convincing consumers that profitable companies are being good citizens for the betterment of society is no easy task; however, there are a few fundamental points to consider that can help accomplish the goal.

Health & Healthcare

Three Quality of Lifehacks for a Healthier & More Productive Workspace

If you work in an office building, how do you feel about your workspace? Do you find your workspace, whether it’s a cubicle, open workspace, or private office, to be cramped, dimly lit, or poorly ventilated? If so, research shows that this can impact your happiness, health and productivity.

Environment

TD Bank Group Sponsors World's First Electric Vehicle Discovery Centre

The goal of the Electric Vehicle Discovery Centre is to educate consumers about the environmental and economic benefits of electric transportation, while helping to drive EV sales and the corresponding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions.

Green Infrastructure

How to Build an Infrastructure Inventory

The Ray is featured in the Atlas Blog

Health & Healthcare

Building a Better School Lunch

Cargill partners with school districts across America to expand menu options and boost nutrition

Energy

San Diego Water Authority Awarded $1 Million Incentive to Deploy Clean Energy Storage Project

The San Diego County Water Authority has received a $1 million incentive from the California Public Utilities Commission to build and deploy intelligent energy storage that will save ratepayers money and stretch the energy output potential of solar panels already installed at the Water Authority’s Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant.

Environment

Brightening Our Corner Newsletter - May 2017

The quarterly online newsletter from the Ray C. Anderson Foundation has been published.

Sustainable Development Goals

GRI is Advancing the SDG Agenda 2030 in South Asia

GRI’s Regional Hub South Asia and the CII ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development have launched a local initiative to understand SDGs in business context in the South Asian region trough a peer-learning platform.

Latest Campaigns

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  2. America's Charities Employee Engagement & Social Responsibility
    More than ever, retaining and recruiting employees is a top priority for companies. Aware of the link between workplace giving and employee engagement...
  3. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  7. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. Tork, an Essity brand
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  11. Aflac Insights
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  12. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  13. Technology for Good
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  14. EVP Campaign
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  15. Aflac Voices
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