Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bandwagon & JetBlue Bring Smart Taxisharing to JFK

Research, Reports & Publications

BJ's Wholesale Club Releases its Values in Action: 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report

BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., announced today the release of its Values in Action: 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility Report (CSR) to highlight the company's efforts in helping to improve its communities and planet.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

T. Rowe Price Earns Top Marks in 2016 Corporate Equality Index

T. Rowe Price received a score of 95 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Earn Top Marks in 2016 Corporate Equality Index

Wynn Las Vegas and Encore are the proud recipients of a perfect score on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

KOHLER Clarity Brings Safe Water to Those in Need

Kohler Co. has developed a ceramic water filtration system to enable people in remote regions to access safe, reliable drinking water.

Environment

Jackson Family Wines Joins Beverage Industry Environmental Rountable

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) welcomes Jackson Family Wines (JFW), a leading international, luxury wine company, as its newest member. Producing some of the world’s highest quality wines, JFW has received awards for both environmentally and socially responsible practices in Europe and North America.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

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

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.

Environment

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

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

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.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

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

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.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Raising Compassionate Kids Through Acts of Kindness and Volunteer Service

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.

Environment

DuPont Announces 2020 Sustainability Goals

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

Responsible Production & Consumption

Trim Tab Magazine | The Seductive Ideology of Craft

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

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.

Events, Media & Communications

NAEM EHS Management Forum 2015 Recap

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.

Environment

Connect to Good: A Roadmap to 2025

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.

Environment

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

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

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.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Responsible Investing Provides Careers for Women

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.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  2. Community Impact
    The communities where Chemours operates are also where we live, work, and play, and our mutual success is one and the same. We have a vested interest...
  3. Sustainability by Antea Group
    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
  4. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  5. KeyBank: Responsible Banking
    Everyone’s financial journey is different. We make intentional efforts to meet the individual needs of clients and communities through a diverse range...
  6. 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...
  7. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  8. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  9. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  10. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  11. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  12. 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...
  13. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  14. 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...
  15. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...