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Environment

PepsiCo Announces New Innovations and Partnerships to Celebrate World Water Day

Today, as part of its pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) transformation, PepsiCo, Inc. announced several new innovations, investments and partnerships to progress against its ambition to be Net Water Positive by 2030, aiming to replenish more water than the company uses.

Diversity & Inclusion

How Wen Tong Helps Power the Sunshine State

Wen Tong walks through the maze of metal structures making up one of Duke Energy’s newest substations in Tarpon Springs, Fla., and thinks about all the customers the substation will serve.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Embracing Virtual Volunteering

Cisco is bringing about an inclusive future through the positive actions taken by tens of thousands of employees. Making positive impact a habit is part of what it means to work at Cisco and is an important aspect of our culture.

Diversity & Inclusion

Rockwell Automation's Professional Women's Council Reflects Company's Global Growth

Rockwell Automation’s Professional Women’s Council (PWC) is one of its longest-running employee resource groups. Launched in the mid-1990s in Milwaukee, the ERG has grown to more than 26 chapters worldwide – mirroring Rockwell’s global growth.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Opinion: Searching for the Next Generation of Sustainable Health Care

The pandemic has laid bare the health inequities between and within countries — inequities not only in access to vaccines and medicines, but just as importantly in the health and financial systems that are essential to delivering care.

Environment

Celebrate World Water Day By Committing to Water Stewardship

The celebration of World Water Day aims to embrace and highlight the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda for 2030. The following is a high-level overview of the importance and urgency of global water sustainability efforts.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Four Reasons You Can't Miss Goodness Matters 2022

Here are the top reasons you should secure your spot for Benevity's Goodness Matters, THE corporate purpose event of the year; June 1 to 3, online and in-person at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa near San Diego.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

First Delivery of Heat-n-Eats Single-Serve Meals a Success!

Food For Free received an incredibly generous donation of a new preparation kitchen by Biogen and the Biogen Foundation in 2019. The 500-square-foot space, located directly in the Biogen headquarters was built for the sole use of Food For Free.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Coors Seltzer Supports Water Replenishment With New Acre Project

New Acre Project will help deliver 100 acres of nature-based solutions in Alberta with funding from Coors Seltzer.

Innovation & Technology

Connecting Passion and Purpose

Purpose fuels passion and performance. This phrase describes Natalie Killeen from Keysight Labs perfectly. Natalie is very passionate about her job, striving to make a positive impact at work and the world we are living in.

Events, Media & Communications

[Procurement Foundry] ESG & Sustainability - Procurement's Strategic Role

In this panel hosted during Procurement Foundry's FORGE: Blue Sky event, speakers from Bigger Picture, EcoVadis, HP Canada, and WeWork discuss how procurement teams can tangibly support sustainability and ESG goals alongside their own savings objectives.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Ecolab Celebrates New Water Stewardship Certifications on World Water Day

Ecolab Inc. has increased its portfolio of Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) certified sites, adding two manufacturing plants in Lerma and Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico and its first-ever platinum certified facility in Taicang, China.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Learning by the Book

When Carolyn Wilson describes her heroes, they’re not literary characters in the books she reads. They’re the adult students she’s teaching to read them.

Environment

Tips for Conserving Water and Saving Energy at Home

Clean, fresh water is a precious and limited resource. Conserving water helps protect the environment and saves energy.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Land Betterment Exchange Is Flipping the Narrative on Cryptocurrency and Carbon Offsets

The LBX Token is a positive incentive to create an environmental force for good.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Boosting Nonprofit Capacity for Community Impact at the Charles Schwab Pro Bono Challenge

This signature flash consulting event enables skills-based volunteers to collaborate with vital nonprofits to address business challenges and expand their impact in our communities. See highlights from this year's event.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Cummins Works to be Water Wise

To celebrate World Water Day this week, global power leader Cummins Inc. is presenting five ways it is working to be a good steward of this increasingly important resource.

Environment

EarthShare Announces Second Round Grant Opportunity for Clean and Equitable Energy Initiatives in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Arizona

EarthShare is supporting the transition to clean energy through a second-year grants program, The Energy of One, The Power of Many, that will continue to establish community-level initiatives in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Arizona

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Merck's Support for Ukraine

To date, we have delivered 135,000 courses of molnupiravir through a supply and purchase agreement with the government and donated 100,000 courses of molnupiravir to Direct Relief, an organization providing emergency medical assistance.

Environment

RBA and AWS Partner to Address Water Risks in Supply Chains

The Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) today announced their partnership to increase awareness of water risks in supply chains and help companies address those risks through improved water stewardship.

Diversity & Inclusion

Be Bold: Calculated Career Pivots Take Courage

Truist Chief Teammate Officer and Head of Enterprise Diversity Kimberly Moore-Wright shares about her zig-zag path up the corporate ladder in honor of Women’s History Month.

Environment

Kimberly-Clark Facilities in Latin America Achieve Water Savings Equivalent to Filling Over 500 Olympic-Size Swimming Pools

Water conservation is critical to Kimberly-Clark’s sustainability goals as it works to uplift 1 billion lives in underserved communities around the globe in the next decade

Innovation & Technology

Black & Veatch Joins as Host of CEMEX Venture's Construction Startup Competition

Black & Veatch joined a group of 10 partners hosting CEMEX’s 2022 Construction Startup Competition to find and foster creative solutions for improving sustainability, productivity, supply chain management and building with new methods and materials.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

FedEx Earns No. 16 Spot on the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies List

FedEx Corp. is once again ranked among the most admired companies in the world, according to a survey published in Fortune magazine.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

United for Safe Water

We’re teaming up with Manchester United during the month of March to shine a light on safe water and sanitation challenges and raise funds to support response efforts in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.

Latest Campaigns

  1. 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...
  2. PNC: Commitment to Early Childhood Education
    We're focusing on early learning to help children succeed. Research has shown that the first five years of a child's life is critical to long-term...
  3. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...
  4. 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...
  5. Sustainability
    Leading the logistics sector towards a more sustainable future by investing in innovative green technologies, enhancing operational efficiency, and...
  6. ESG Voices: Short Podcasts Addressing the Opportunities and Challenges of ESG
    This podcast series takes a deep dive into the opportunities and challenges of ESG and what it means for businesses and communities through interviews...
  7. Local Communities
    The principals of living and working in synergy with the communities in which we operate, as well as collaborating on projects that benefit those...
  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. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
  10. Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator
    The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...
  11. Drive for MPC
    At Marathon Petroleum, our professional truck drivers share one common vision: no accidents, no injuries, and no harm to the environment. We’re proud...
  12. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  13. License to Operate
    Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...
  14. Social Impact at Mastercard
    At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.
  15. 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...