Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Editors Pick

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New IWBI Report Underscores the Powerful Business Case for Health in Buildings and Organizations

International WELL Building Institute (IWBI)

Research, Reports & Publications

3BL Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2025
3BL Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2025

3BL

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Circularity in Action: Decarbonization for Refrigerated Transport
Circularity in Action: Decarbonization for Refrigerated Transport

Trane Technologies

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sustainable Development Goals

Join Jed Emerson and Zita Cobb at #SVM2020

COVID 19 has offered few bright lights, one positive aspect might be how our virtual #SVM2020 conference has enable many new connections.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Arrow Electronics Sponsors Junior Achievement Initiative for K-12 Students in Economically Disadvantaged Communities

Arrow Electronics is supporting a Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain (JA) initiative that will deliver increased programming to K-12 students in economically disadvantaged communities in Denver.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

IBEW Local 47 Members, SCE Employees Help Feed Those in Need

As Robert Madrigal lifted the heavy food donation boxes into a car recently at Long Beach City College, he could see the long line of vehicles waiting in the drive-through line stretching back almost to the nearby freeway.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

IES & IWBI Announce Joint Memorandum of Understanding

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and the International Well Building Institute (IWBI) are pleased to announce a memorandum of understanding enabling future collaboration to improve the quality of our indoor environments...

Research, Reports & Publications

America's Pledge Reveals U.S. States, Cities, and Businesses Accelerated Their Climate Progress Despite Trump, Global Pandemic, and Economic Downturn

Today, America’s Pledge co-chairs, former California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. and Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg LP & Bloomberg Philanthropies, and three-term Mayor of New York City, unveiled America’s Pledge’s fourth analysis, which finds that despite the past four years of environmental rollbacks from President Trump’s administration, non-federal actors have successfully counterbalanced the climate denial and obstruction from the White House. This has made it possible for the U.S. to reach net zero emissions by 2050 with aggressive federal climate re-engagement in 2021.

Health & Healthcare

Alexion Partners With One Mind at Work

Advancing the emotional well-being of the rare disease community, our employees, and the communities in which we live, and work is a core commitment of ours. During Mental Health Awareness Month, we strengthened this commitment by joining...

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

A Coalition on a Mission to Eliminate Persistent Poverty in the U.S.

Education

IBM Envisions Accelerated P-TECH Growth for More Diversity and Opportunity. Is Your Region In?

IBM is proud to do its part to create a more diverse & equal society. We recently committed to 1,000 P-TECH internships in the US through 2021 alone. We have liaisons stationed full time at the many P-TECH schools were are directly affiliated with.

Environment

Climate Action 100+ Calls for Net-zero Business Strategies & Sets Out Benchmark of Largest Corporate Emitters

Letter sent to CEOs & chair of the board at 161 global companies sets out benchmark and calls on firms to commit to net-zero business strategies.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Amicus Therapeutics Wins 2020 ENR Regional Award for Best Project

CRB is proud to announce that the Amicus Therapeutics Research and Gene Therapy Center facility has won Engineering News-Record (ENR) MidAtlantic’s 2020 Best Projects (Award of Merit) in the Healthcare category.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Republic Services Charitable Foundation Finding Innovative Ways to Support Neighborhood Revitalization Amid Pandemic

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Republic Services is finding innovative ways to support neighborhood revitalization efforts across the country through its charitable foundation's National Neighborhood Promise (NNP) program.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Biogen to Invest $250 Million in a 20-year Initiative to Eliminate Its Use of Fossil Fuels and Improve Public Health

Healthy Climate, Healthy Lives™ is a groundbreaking $250 million, 20-year initiative to eliminate fossil fuels across Biogen's operations & collaborate with renowned institutions to improve health, especially for the most vulnerable populations.

Responsible Production & Consumption

McCain Foods Sustainability

As the challenges posed by climate change become more acute, the global food system needs to transform significantly.

Education

Subaru of America Nurtures a Love for Science With Online Educational Resources

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced that in conjunction with longtime partner, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the automaker has supported the development of a library of educational science-focused activities and resources for families staying largely at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Rock the Vote, Cox Announce Partnership

Rock the Vote and Cox Enterprises are announcing a new partnership aimed at ensuring Cox employees and customers have the resources they need to register to vote, become engaged, and make sure their voices are heard in this fall’s presidential election.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Johnson & Johnson Signs a Historic Pledge to Uphold the Integrity of the Scientific Process in Developing an Investigational COVID-19 Vaccine

Johnson & Johnson announced that we, alongside eight other companies working on investigational COVID-19 vaccines, are signing a #WeStandWithScience pledge committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific process as we work towards potential global regulatory filings and approvals of the first vaccines for COVID-19.

Innovation & Technology

Empowering the Blind or Visually Impaired Community in China

Wireless Reach, alongside BSR, Beijing Baoyi Interaction Scientific & Technological Company and China Academy of Information & Communication Technology, developed the See4me program to address the most pressing needs of China’s BVI population.

Innovation & Technology

VMware and the National Science Foundation Collaborate on the Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure

With the Climate Decade upon us, cutting global emissions in half by 2030 depends on bold actions and a global capacity for innovation. We’re focused on both. Throughout our 20-year history, we’ve pioneered solutions to help build a low-carbon...

Events, Media & Communications

Bloomberg Green Virtual Festival Kicks Off Today

Today kicks off the virtual Bloomberg Green Festival, a five-day event that will feature a mix of panels, presentations, fireside chats, and interactive elements, focused on core issues of climate action.

Education

STEYR Helps to Train Hungary's Future Farmers

Magtár Kft, the official importer of STEYR in Hungary, has won a tender to supply a total of 24 tractors to 18 agricultural schools, to help train the Country’s future farmers. The EU-funded tender was launched to renew the existing outdated machines operated by the agricultural schools and professional training centres, as well as to enhance the digital competencies of the students and future agricultural professionals by enabling them to work with the latest technology. STEYR is a European agricultural brand of CNH Industrial.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ScottsMiracle-Gro: GroMoreGood is Our Purpose

GroMoreGood is our promise to our communities, our planet, our consumers, our partners and each other. It’s our desire to bring goodness to every person and every patch of the Earth. GroMoreGood reflects who we have always been and what we stand for.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Paso Robles WWTP Upgrade Garners Top Wastewater Project Award for Packing Multifaceted Sustainability into Existing Footprint

Packing long-term water resilience and other sustainable solutions into a small footprint earned the upgrade of the Paso Robles Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) top honors as the Global Water Awards’ 2020 Wastewater Project of the Year.

Research, Reports & Publications

Logitech Charts Progress on Key Environmental Goals in FY20 Sustainability Report

Since last year, we have made multiple forward-looking public commitments and made good progress with our key environmental goals of improving carbon, toxicity and circularity of our products and our operations.

Green Infrastructure

East Houston Solar Co-op Chooses Green Mountain Energy to Bring Solar to More Houstonians

Solar United Neighbors’ East Houston Solar Co-op has selected Green Mountain Energy to serve the 30-member group and increase the growth of residential solar in Houston. Chosen through a competitive bidding process over four other firms, Green Mountain will provide each member with an individualized proposal based on a group rate through its installation partner Green Light Solar.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is embedded in our company values. We actively promote it among our employees, raise awareness, and foster an...
  5. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  6. IWBI | Workplace Wellness
    A WELL Certified™ project has the potential to add measurable value to the health, well-being and happiness of people in the buildings. It can also...
  7. 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...
  8. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  9. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  10. 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...
  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. Katrina 20th Anniversary
    This year marked the 20th anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Katrina, one of the worst, deadliest and most costly natural disasters to ever...
  13. ESG Recognition
    While our commitment to being a responsible corporation is not dependent on recognition, it is a great validation of our work when external...
  14. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  15. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.