Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Health & Healthcare | Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council

HPRC Publishes Inaugural Impact Report: Paving the Way for Sustainable Healthcare Plastics

The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) is thrilled to announce the publication of its inaugural Impact Report for 2024.
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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Europe Leads the Way on Scope 3 Emissions: What Investors and Companies Need To Know

CSRHub

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Cocoa Market Turmoil: How Hershey Is Innovating Through Unprecedented Challenges

The Hershey Company

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sustainable Strategies for Grocery Growth

Tetra Pak

Energy

Stop Buying Energy Infrastructure. Start Buying Results.

Veolia North America

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Why Sustainability Is the Smartest Investment in an Uncertain Trade Landscape

DP World

Energy

Energy for a Better Future: Entergy’s Growth and Resiliency Strategy

Entergy Corporation

Energy

AllianceBernstein: Power Play: How To Invest Smarter in the Race for Electrification

AllianceBernstein

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sysco 2024 Sustainability Report: At the Heart of One Planet One Table

Sysco Corporation

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Sustainable Development Goals

Whirlpool’s Voglewede Pursues a Sustainable Customer Connection

Whirlpool Corporation aims to ensure customers are "proud" to purchase its products for performance as well as the company's commitment to sustainability in all aspects of its business. Director of Global Sustainability Ron Voglewede shares more on the company's sustainability strategy.

Energy

SCE Receives State Approval for Four Electric Transportation Pilots

Southern California Edison received approval today to move forward on four pilot projects that will help to expand electric transportation. Transportation electrification is key to meeting California’s 2030 greenhouse gas and air pollution reduction goals.

Environment

Peacocks, Vipers and Honey Bees Star in GM’s 2018 Wildlife Habitat Calendar

Nearly 300 photos of flora and fauna taken by General Motors employees around the globe were submitted for the company’s annual Wildlife Habitat Calendar contest. The program highlights the plants and animals that call GM’s industry-leading 71 Wildlife Habitat Council certified sites home.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Timberland Kicks Off 26th Year of Path of Service™ Volunteer Program With In-House Event to Benefit the American Heart Association

Last year, global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland celebrated the 25th anniversary of its Path of ServiceTM volunteer program, which offers employees up to 40 paid hours each year to serve in their communities. The brand finished the year strong by engaging employees at its Stratham, New Hampshire headquarters to serve 200 families through the annual Holiday Giving Tree. Other year-end service events included sorting and wrapping donated toys at Seacoast Adopt-A-Block, a local non-profit that serves low-income families, and serving meals with Gather, a New Hampshire food pantry.

Events, Media & Communications

Bring Your Knowledge to the Shared Value Leadership Summit Stage

Now, more than ever, the world's greatest challenges require the bold thinking and action of companies. The Shared Value Initiative is seeking proposals for the 2018 Shared Value Leadership Summit's NEW Solutions Salons speaking opportunities and we want the Summit stage to come alive with your story of shared value strategic thinking and partnership.

Events, Media & Communications

The Ray to Present at Transportation and Expressway Authority Membership of Florida (TEAMFL) Annual Conference

Two members of The Ray will make a presentation at the TEAM FL Annual Meeting, talking about sustainable infrastructure and the highway of the future. TEAM FL was formed in 1997 to facilitate the exchange of information among toll agencies and the transportation industry.

Innovation & Technology

Digital Empowerment | Barclays Helps Morty Launch Easy Mortgage App

It started with a realisation. A mortgage is the biggest transaction of any person’s life, and no one was helping buyers to shop around. It’s madness. So we set about building a platform that empowers the user – and gets them the best possible deal.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Local Investing for Impact: A New Tool for Place-Focused Foundations

So, why create LOCUS now? We are living in times when more traditional public sources of community and economic development funding are challenged; many local governments are still struggling with revenue shortfalls and federal budget impasse seems like a perpetual state of affairs. In Don Macke’s words, “finding the financial resources necessary for community building is increasingly challenged; that is why I have come to believe that philanthropic impact investing represents such a promising solution”.

Diversity & Inclusion

‘I Have a Clearer Head About What I Want to Do’

Will Donlow and hundreds of others have found better jobs and are positioned for success thanks to Save Our Sons, a workforce training program helping economically disadvantaged African American and other men in the St. Louis area.

Environment

Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Keep America Beautiful Kick Off Sixth Year of Recycling Partnership

The Dr Pepper Snapple Group/Keep America Beautiful Park Recycling Infrastructure Grant Program opened its 2018 application process today, offering new opportunities to make recycling convenient for communities across the country. Applications are open for submission at kab.org/parkrecycling through Feb. 16, 2018.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Condé Nast Partners with TIME'S UP and eBay to Host Charity Auction of Golden Globes Dresses and Tuxedos

Benefitting the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, shoppers can bid on the iconic red carpet looks worn by celebrities like Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Tracee Ellis Ross, Emma Watson and Jude Law during this year’s Golden Globes.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Scalable Solutions in Fragile States

Larry Cooley, President Emeritus of MSI, A Tetra Tech Company, co-authored a blog post for the Brookings Institution’s Future Development blog with Jonathan Papoulidis, Executive Advisor on Fragile States at World Vision, titled “Scalable Solutions in Fragile States.” All opinions expressed in this post are the authors’ own.

Events, Media & Communications

Next City Launches New Section Focused on Urban Solutions for Inclusive Economic Growth With Support From Citi Community Development

Next City today announced the launch of its newest editorial section, The Bottom Line, made possible with support from Citi Community Development. Through enterprise reporting, news coverage and op-eds written by public and private sector leaders, The Bottom Line will explore new and promising programs, partnerships, policies, technologies and financial tools emerging in response to increasing inequality, household financial vulnerability and other troubling economic trends affecting American cities. Visit The Bottom Line at nextcity.org/thebottomline.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

AEG Concludes Annual Season of Giving with Community Holiday Party

AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company, concluded its Season of Giving, the company’s annual holiday initiative that encourages its employees throughout the world to engage in charitable activities in their local communities, with a community holiday party near the company’s global headquarters in Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE and the Los Angeles Convention Center.

More than 500 residents of the nearby Pico-Union district along with various Los Angeles County-based nonprofit organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles, several neighborhood Boys & Girls Clubs and others, enjoyed free ice skating at LA Kings Holiday Ice at L.A. LIVE, a full dinner service, holiday crafts and games in addition to photos with Santa Claus.

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Health & Healthcare

Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) Recognizes Merck's Dr. Julie Gerberding for Significant Contributions to Health Care

Dr. Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, has been named the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) 2018 Woman of the Year. The award honors a senior executive female whose accomplishments have resulted in significant contributions to the health care industry. HBA also recognized several other leaders as “powerful and effective advocates” committed to advancing women in the health care industry.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

United in Service

Whirlpool Corporation employees volunteer in schools, shelters and service organizations for a service initiative known as "United We Serve." The initiative calls for Americans to work together to provide solutions to pressing problems within their communities.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Duke Energy Volunteers Celebrate MLK Day with Day of Service

On MLK Day of Service, hundreds of Duke Energy employees fanned out across our communities to serve others. From teaching girls about STEM in aviation and building homes to serving meals and beautifying parks, Duke Energy In Action volunteers put our purpose into action: to power the lives of our customers and the vitality of our communities.

Green Infrastructure

Bottled Water Industry Teams Up with Keep America Beautiful to Promote Value and Importance of Recycling

With a common goal of improving recycling access and increasing recycling rates by educating consumers about the value of recycling, the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) and Keep America Beautiful announced their partnership today at the 2018 Keep America Beautiful National Conference, taking place Jan. 17-19 at The Fairmont Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas. IBWA will become a national sponsor of America Recycles Day, a Keep America Beautiful national initiative that takes place annually on and in the weeks leading into Nov. 15.

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Energy

Charging Futures Gathers Pace

Everyone who uses Britain’s electricity network pays to do so in one way or another. Generators pay to move electricity to where it’s needed. Demand users like suppliers, or directly connected users such as factories and steelworks, pay to consume power. Ultimately, these costs are passed on to the end consumer in the network cost element of their bill.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Smart City Briefing – The Role of Partnerships and Technology

The vision of smart cities is often of gleaming metropolis dominated by technological solutions to the issues that urban areas face. In reality, partnerships between companies and cities are crucial to ensure solutions for residents, the environment and business needs are interlinked.

Education

Amgen & The Joy of Discovery: Inspiring the Scientists of Tomorrow

At Amgen we are guided by our mission to serve patients. The joy of discovery is a feeling that unites all our scientists no matter their origin, gender, or age.

Diversity & Inclusion

Introducing the Carver Family

Kendra Carver is an American Express employee, a recent adoptive mother and an advocate for adoption benefits. Here she shares her family's story in a guest blog for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

Environment

Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability faculty, Tom Lyon Weighs in on Secretary Zinke’s Proposals for Offshore Drilling – Knowledge@Wharton

The U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced the next step for responsibly developing the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (National OCS Program) for 2019-2024, which proposes to make over 90 percent of the total OCS acreage and more than 98 percent of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in federal offshore areas available to consider for future exploration and development.

Education

Didier Drogba Foundation Opens its First School with the Support of Nestlé and the International Cocoa Initiative

The Didier Drogba Foundation has built a new school in Côte d’Ivoire with the support of Nestlé and the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI). The school helps address the lack of educational facilities in rural parts of the country, and is part of Nestlé’s approach to tackling child labour in cocoa-growing communities.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Scotiabank Donates $500,000 to the University of Manitoba

Scotiabank has donated $500,000 to the University of Manitoba’s Front and Centre campaign, giving students’ academic support and opportunities to serve their community.

A portion of the new donation will help more Manitobans get the oral health care they need, while enhancing dentistry student training. The remainder will establish the Scotiabank Scholarship in Data Analytics in the Asper School of Business.

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    The principals of living and working in synergy with the communities in which we operate, as well as collaborating on projects that benefit those...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  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. License to Operate
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  8. Growth Through Sustainability
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  9. Integrated Tools
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  10. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.

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    We invent breakthrough technologies that enable life-changing products and experiences. We’re building on our legacy of technology leadership with 5G...

  12. GoDaddy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
    Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...

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  14. SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights
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