Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Diversity & Inclusion

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Education

Teach for America, Entergy Celebrate Education Efforts

Teach for America Greater New Orleans and Entergy Corporation are teaming up to celebrate 30 years of commitment to educational excellence for students in the Greater New Orleans area.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Contributing to Social Development and Amazon Forest Conservation

Latin America presents unique features when it comes to ESG: incredibly rich biodiversity, ethnic and cultural diversity on one side and challenges in the space of social inequality and environmental issues on the other side.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Owens Corning's Product Handprint: 2030 Sustainability Targets and Progress

By 2030: Establish viable circular economy business models involving our materials and how they are used by collaborating up and down the supply chain, with customers, suppliers, communities, academics, policy makers, government entities, and other organizations.

Environment

Committed to Decarbonization and to Leading the Way

In 2014, we established industry-leading GHG reduction goals and in 2015 became one of the first ten companies globally to have our decarbonization goal validated as 2 degrees Celsius-aligned by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Circularity in Action: The Home Depot's Commitment to Composting and Sustainability

In Puget Sound, Washington, associates are turning trash into something customers can use. Flowers, soil, and other retired organic items are being composted instead of thrown away.

Diversity & Inclusion

M·A·C Gives Back to LGBTQIA+ Community With Pride & Joy Liquidlast Liner Vault

“Pride is about Community, and this community has been through a lot. M·A·C has celebrated queer people since the inception of the brand."

Responsible Production & Consumption

Schneider Electric Moves Forward With Its Sustainability Impact Targets, Mobilizing Support From Employees, Partners and Customers

Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, published today its half-year progress overview on setting up and advancing on its 2021-2025 sustainability impact targets.

Events, Media & Communications

WATCH: Planning for the Future in Southern California: OCBC's Chairman's Leadership Breakfast Featuring Lewis Cornell, WSP USA

On the horizon in Southern California: 2028 Olympics, L.A.'s Operation NEXT, California Comeback Plan, environmental justice, offshore wind power, and the infrastructure that will support it all.

Education

Pizza Hut Canada Sponsors Equal Slice Program to Provide Free Training, Education, and Mentorship to Underrepresented Canadian Small Business Owners

Pizza Hut Canada has partnered with Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) on the Equal Slice Program that will offer a free executive education and virtual trainings designed to help strengthen and grow minority, immigrant, indigenous, and disabled-owned small businesses throughout Canada.

Media & Communications

ILFI Names New CEO

Today the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) Board of Directors named Lindsay Baker as CEO, choosing a climate leader with deep experience in technology, real estate, and sustainability.

Health & Healthcare

International AIDS Society Leaders on the Future of HIV Prevention and Treatment

Over the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases to center stage.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Plan-Do-Check-Act: How to Build and Maintain an Effective EHS Management System

In a webinar hosted by Antea Group, EHS consultants shared their insights into using the Plan-Do-Check-Act method to build an effective EHS management system.

Innovation & Technology

Fisk University, HTC VIVE, T-Mobile and VictoryXR Launch 5G‑Powered VR Human Cadaver Lab

Fisk University, one of the top ranked HBCUs in the country, and HTC VIVE, T-Mobile & VictoryXR have teamed up to launch a first-of-its-kind interactive 5G-powered VR human cadaver lab for students.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Small Businesses Recover Through New Sources of Capital

With a mission to support minority and women-owned small businesses, Truist Foundation and NC Rural Center created a fund for Community Development Financial Institutions.

Innovation & Technology

Get Ready for More 5G Products Changing Our Lives for the Better

5G offers a wide range of options to deliver an optimized combination of high capacity, high data rates, ubiquitous coverage, and ultra-reliability. These will make mission-critical apps such as remote surgery and autonomous driving possible.

Diversity & Inclusion

Amy Rooks: The Importance of Bringing Her Whole Self to Her Job Every Day

Hear from Amy Rooks, the director of our plates product system for our CPG business on the importance of bringing her whole self to her job every day as a GP employee.

Research, Reports & Publications

WEC Energy Group Corporate Responsibility Report Highlights Commitment to Affordable, Reliable and Clean Energy

WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC) released its 2020 Corporate Responsibility Report, a comprehensive overview of the company's environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. The report details progress made by WEC Energy Group and its family of companies on major projects and sustainability goals.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Stanley Black & Decker Named to Forbes Best Employers for Women 2021

Stanley Black & Decker ranks fifth in the “Semiconductors, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Technology Hardware & Equipment” category and #241 out of 300 companies overall. This is the company’s second consecutive year on the list.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

MilliporeSigma Makes an Impact With 'STEMpact' on Science Education

To help students prepare for STEM careers and close the education gap, MilliporeSigma localized partner STEMpact is working to transform STEM education and provide resources to teachers and schools in the St. Louis, Missouri area.

Health & Healthcare

Delivering COVID-19 Vaccines to Communities

Diversity & Inclusion

LGBTQ+ Consumers Value Brand Support Beyond Pride Month

“You can’t just throw up a couple of ads or say we’re here for June and disappear,” Tim Bennett, a marketing consultant and former marketing executive at Subaru who led the company’s groundbreaking LGBTQ+-focused marketing campaign in the 1990s

Diversity & Inclusion

Reaching Back to Help the Next Generation

Maya Penn started a company at eight years old and she’s kept growing from there. We hear from Maya and from her mentor Phyllis Newhouse who, along with venture capitalist Isabelle Freidheim, created the first-ever female-led SPAC, Athena Technology Acquisition.

Research, Reports & Publications

Ethical Leadership at Clarivate

Sustainability is now a topic of every Board meeting with dedicated oversight from the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee which reports into the Board at each meeting.

Innovation & Technology

New Black & Veatch eBook Explores Electric Utilities' Progress Towards Grid Modernization

Transformation of the U.S. energy grid is underway against a backdrop of aggressive decarbonization goals even as electric utilities modernize to accommodate an influx of distributed energy resources (DER) and mitigate risks to system reliability.

Latest Campaigns

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