Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How to Start a Corporate Revolution

Interface’s story can not only inspire but also instruct us all in how a purposeless company can transform itself to become a vehicle for achieving something important for the world and improve its financial performance in the process.

Diversity & Inclusion

AEG Teams Up With Mayor Eric Garcetti to Boost Diversity in Entertainment Industry Through Evolve Entertainment Fund

AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company, recently teamed up with Mayor Eric Garcetti in Los Angeles to host the Evolve Entertainment Fund (EEF) 2019 Summer Kickoff at L.A. LIVE on June 15, 2019.

Environment

Hallmark Receives Distinguished Designation for Responsible Sourcing of Timber and Paper Products by WWF

Hallmark UK is delighted to have been awarded 3 Trees in the WWF-UK’s 2019 Timber Scorecard, an accolade that underlines Hallmark’s ongoing commitment to finding responsible and sustainable ways to reduce their impact on the environment.

Innovation & Technology

Taproot Foundation Launches Newly Transformed Matchmaking Platform Taproot Plus

Taproot Foundation is transforming how nonprofit and social change organizations access the pro bono support they need to achieve their missions by launching the newly redesigned matchmaking platform Taproot Plus at www.taprootplus.org.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck Recognized on PEOPLE’s 50 Companies That Care List

Merck was recognized on PEOPLE’s third annual 50 Companies That Care list for investing $500 million to reduce preventable maternal mortality across the globe with education, tools and technologies for health care providers and moms through its Merck for Mothers program.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Celebrate National Tequila Day by Learning How the Industry Is Becoming Sustainable

Plant-based resources often seem infinite until they are suddenly depleted, and because tequila comes from the agave plant - specifically the blue agave - it’s imperative to keep stocks maintained to ensure plentiful supply in the future. But part of maintaining these crops means being mindful of other components of sustainability: energy use, repurposing, and waste. For Patrón Tequila, this means overhauling their existing systems to be more environmentally friendly.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

PNC Issues First Social Impact Bond

For the past 15 years, Strong Beginnings, a program aiming to facilitate healthier pregnancies and births for families in Western Michigan, has been working to improve infant mortality rates for racial minority communities in the region. PNC Bank issued its first “pay-for-success” bond to Strong Beginnings to help continue the momentum of the program.

Green Infrastructure

Bridgestone Ready to Welcome the World to its Home City for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020

Bridgestone, the only Worldwide Olympic and Paralympic Partner with its global headquarters in Tokyo, is celebrating one year to go until the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 by inviting the world to follow its journey to the next Olympic Games and experience what it means to help people chase their dreams.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Hanesbrands Partners With Free The Girls to Support Women Rescued From Human Trafficking

More than 200 of the company’s retail outlets are collecting new and gently used bras to assist the nonprofit in helping women in Mozambique, El Salvador and Costa Rica become entrepreneurs in the secondhand apparel market

Social Impact & Volunteering

275 Volunteer Projects Completed During CIT Cares Month

CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) today announced the results of its annual employee volunteer initiative, CIT Cares Month. Throughout June, 275 community projects were completed by 1,700 CIT employees who contributed 6,400 volunteer hours nationwide to make a difference.

Diversity & Inclusion

Embracing Change: Our Associates Video

Our associates are the backbone of Alliance Data’s business. As employees increasingly seek a strong, purpose-driven culture, including open communication and fulfillment, we are adopting talent strategies that keep pace with these expectations – engaging associates through data-driven feedback, technology and customization, just as we’re doing for our clients and end-consumers.

Research, Reports & Publications

Black & Veatch: Insightful Charging Infrastructure Planning Critical to Enabling Cost-Effective Electric Fleets

Electric fleets require well-designed power delivery and charging facilities. Planning for charging now – with the understanding that it may take up to a year or two from plan to charge – sets electrification programs up for success. Black & Veatch’s latest free electronic book, Electric Fleets, outlines eight steps to guide the process, inform scheduling and plan for optimal charging facilities.

Environment

Dallas Zoo Partners with Kimberly-Clark Professional to Keep Nitrile Gloves out of Landfills

For staffers at the Dallas Zoo, nitrile gloves from Kimberly-Clark Professional help ensure quality and safety when they care and feed for more than 2,000 animals at the zoo. Through Kimberly-Clark’s RightCycle Program, the zoo also has expanded the overall impact of its sustainability efforts by providing a safe, renewable way to dispose of these gloves.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Timberland Unveils Latest Eco-Innovation with Brooklyn EK+ Collection

Today, Timberland unveils the Brooklyn EK+, an Earthkeepers® Edition footwear collection that reflects the brand’s pinnacle expression of eco-innovation.

Innovation & Technology

Green Connections Radio Podcast

How do you innovate with sustainability in mind? Ingersoll Rand’s VP of Product Management Excellence and Innovation, Rasha Hasaneen, explains how on Green Connections Radio podcast with Joan Michelson.

Green Infrastructure

NXT Exclusive Interview with Damien Dhellemmes, Singapore Country President of Schneider Electric

What does it take to turn an entire office building carbon neutral? We spoke with Damien Dhellemmes, Singapore Country President of Schneider Electric on how they transformed a 25-year old industrial building into their state-of-the-art headquarters...

Diversity & Inclusion

Kansas City’s Chamber of Commerce Honors Black & Veatch’s Diversity, Inclusion Emphasis

With a global footprint as an infrastructure solutions leader, Black & Veatch has committed to workplace diversity and inclusion more reflective of the more than 100 countries on six continents in which the company has offices.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Corporation Scores 100 Percent on 2019 Disability Equality Index

Whirlpool Corp. has been named one of the best places to work for people with disabilities as part of the 2019 Disability Equality Index (DEI), the nation's most comprehensive annual benchmarking tool.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Solar Power World: Black & Veatch Among Nation’s Top Solar Power Contractors

With renewable energy expected to be the fastest-growing source of new U.S. electricity generation for the next several years, Solar Power World has named Black & Veatch among the top U.S. solar contractors, ranking the company sixth of 415 installers on the magazine's 2019 “Top Solar Contractors” list.

Innovation & Technology

Innovation As A Value, Not An Assignment

When innovation is truly adopted as a value everyone in the organization will be encouraged to take ownership and an active interest in its evolution.

Research, Reports & Publications

Energy Planning Offers Efficiency, Cost Savings, Resilience Down the Road

As energy costs continue to rise and more states adopt regulatory incentives and disincentives that drive large-scale sustainability and efficiency efforts, it is expected that utilities will become more aggressive in their approach to managing energy.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CASE and Southeastern Equipment Support Team Rubicon Disaster Response to EF4 Tornado in Dayton, Ohio

CASE Construction Equipment, the global construction equipment brand of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE:CNHI / MI:CNHI) and Southeastern Equipment supported Team Rubicon in its efforts to help the Dayton, Ohio community recover from the destruction of the EF4 Tornado that caused extensive damage across multiple swaths of the city.

Responsible Production & Consumption

HP Talks New Recycled Content Plastics Goal & Sustainability in 3D Printing

HP continues to expand initiatives in recycling as the company recently announced a new commitment to increase recycled content plastics across its print and personal systems portfolio to 30% by 2025.

Environment

Plan G: How Georgians Are Taking Control of the Climate Conversation

Local news rarely covers the climate. They're all over the weather, but they generally avoid going beyond. Climate, as a subject, is deemed too toxic, too politicized, too daunting - too depressing. It doesn’t have to be.

Latest Campaigns

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  14. People
    As a family-owned business, Bacardi values the importance of creating a warm and welcoming workplace. We do so by fostering an environment where...
  15. 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...