Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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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

Events, Media & Communications

BSR20 Best Rates Extended Through Friday

Did you miss the news last week that the best rates for BSR20 expired on Friday? If so—we’ve got you covered.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Los Angeles Becomes the Largest “Fair Trade City” in North America

Fair Trade USA is pleased to announce that the Los Angeles City Council has voted to become an official Fair Trade City, celebrate World Fair Trade Day every year on the second Saturday in May, and take the necessary steps to include Fair Trade principles in City purchasing. In January of this year, Councilmembers Paul Koretz (CD5), Mike Bonin (CD11), and Joe Buscaino (CD 15) introduced both a motion and a resolution encouraging diverse businesses and organizations to increase the citywide understanding of Fair Trade, grow the availability of Fair Trade products among retailers, and add Fair Trade principles to the City government’s Environmentally-Preferable Purchasing Program.

Events, Media & Communications

Ten Years of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG)

As we mark the 10-year anniversary of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG), olympic.org highlights some of the ways the YOG have been most impactful since Singapore 2010.

Innovation & Technology

Tetra Tech's Brian W. Callahan Discusses Defense System Modernization

Brian W. Callahan provides strategic direction in designing and executing solutions for modernizing mission-critical information systems for Department of Defense (DoD) clients.

Research, Reports & Publications

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) Holds Its Third Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Market Briefing

ANZ’s support for customers, stakeholders and the community throughout the COVID-19 crisis has been anchored to its purpose, strong governance and ESG principles.

Environment

Investors Talk Deforestation: Q&A With Michelle Edkins, BlackRock

Michelle Edkins is Managing Director in BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship team, which seeks to promote governance best practices that help create long-term shareholder value for clients.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month Through Representation

This month we celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. It kicks off on the important date of September 15th, the anniversary of independence for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. As the largest ethnic community in the United States, representing 60.6 million individuals across the nation, there is a lot to celebrate – and companies are joining in. This month we’ve already seen one company continue their strides for representation in their product line.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

What Does a 30-Year Career in Semiconductors Look Like?

Life is filled with excitement and opportunities. We each need to continue doing our best and show up with a “can-do” attitude. When you start your day think to yourself, “I would like to try with my best effort.” That’s all we can expect from one another.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Dealing With Derecho Destruction: CNH Industrial Foundation Donates to Local Relief Efforts

The CNH Industrial Foundation has donated $20,000 to support disaster relief operations in wake of the devastating Derecho that cut a path of destruction from Nebraska to Illinois last month.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Nonprofits in a COVID-19 World: Engaging Stakeholders in Times of Crisis

The ability to quickly adapt to change is a key aspect of running any successful organization. However, in times of crisis, that change can often come quicker than the organization and its stakeholders could imagine.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

How You Can Make an Impact with a $10 Donation to Whole Planet Foundation

Whole Planet Foundation is a Whole Foods Market non-profit dedicated to alleviating poverty through microcredit around the globe in countries that supply stores with products.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Aflac Commemorates its 25-Year Commitment to Helping Families Facing Childhood Cancer During National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Efforts to Reflect Company's Long-Term, $146 Million Commitment to Childhood Cancer Initiatives

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and Aflac is set to commemorate the month, including honoring the health care heroes who care for, educate and support childhood cancer patients and their families.

Media & Communications

More Insights, More Innovations, More 'Taking Care of Business'

“Taking Care of Business” is an ongoing video & podcast series that explores the world beyond COVID-19 and dives deep with trailblazing business leaders to learn how they build skills, lead successful organizations & innovate within their industries.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Earth Overshoot Day 2020 Has Passed, But We Can Still Make a Difference

In 2020, Earth Overshoot Day was more than 3 weeks later than last year. This shows we can still reverse the trend and transform the current crisis into an opportunity to reshape our economy and become more resilient, frugal and digital.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Making Employee Volunteering Easier May Undermine Long-Term Interest in Participation

Making employee volunteering easier may undermine long-term interest in participation and demotivate your volunteers. Learn why with Realized Worth’s newest blog!

Health & Healthcare

Adobe Sign Customer Video: Spin the Globe

Sylvia Longmire has always been passionate about traveling, but in 2005 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and started using a wheelchair.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Mohawk Group Donates Carpet Tile to Several Deserving Georgia Schools

Hosted by Georgia United Credit Union Foundation with donor partners like Mohawk Group, the annual program awards one deserving school a makeover grant funded by the foundation and runners-up with grants for specific projects.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Coffee for Peace Wins Prestigious Business for Peace Award

Felicitas “Joji” Bautista Pantoja, Co-Founder of Business Call to Action member company, Coffee for Peace has won the Oslo Business for Peace Award for 2020.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

NRG Power Value: Collaboration

Rhonda R., Senior Telecommunications Engineer, IT, is passionate about collaborating with her colleagues, especially in times of change, to ensure they are effectively using technology to achieve their best results.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Bringing Technology, Talent and DE&I Together In a Post-COVID World

Environment

Working With Nature: Improving Ecosystems and Business Costs

Five years ago, Dow made a big bet. This bet was based on the premise that there was a lot of unaccounted value from nature, and a lot of nature-based solutions to be discovered for business problems.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The Road to a Vaccine, Season 2, Ep. 5: What Have We Learned After Eight Months of COVID-19?

In Episode 5, Lisa Ling asks health experts for a pandemic status report, including the latest statistics on cases worldwide, the current thinking about coronavirus and its effects and what’s working to fight the disease—and what’s not.

Events, Media & Communications

Building a Forest Positive Future

International Paper Chief Sustainability Officer, Sophie Beckham, has been invited to speak at Bloomberg’s Green Festival, a new culture-shaping event featuring leading voices working at the edge of change in sustainability.

Environment

EarthX Launches Wild at Home the First Nature Reserve

EarthXR, the interactive arm of EarthxFilm, is partnering with Wild Immersion, endorsed by Jane Goodall, for the launch of Wild at Home September 21 to kickoff Climate Week.

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.