Ahead of His Time: Chris Fox, VP Corporate Responsibility at HanesBrands

In 2007, after HanesBrands broke off from Sara Lee, Fox was tasked with spearheading the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts. As part of reinventing the culture at the newly formed company, the entire work force—at every level, in every function—became increasingly accountable for sustainable, ethical production of apparel.

Home Charging Installation Rebates Make it Easier to Drive Electric

Southern California Edison celebrated today the installation of 1,000 electric vehicle chargers in more than 60 locations throughout the Southland, and also announced that it is starting a new pilot program to help customers install EV charging stations at home. The 1,000th charger was installed at South El Monte High School through Charge Ready, SCE’s pilot program to add EV charging stations at locations where people leave their cars for the day. These locations include workplaces, public parking lots, hospitals and destination centers, as well as apartment and condominium complexes.

New SEC Search Tool Finds Inadequate Human and Workers’ Rights Disclosure in Financial Filings

Ceres and CookESG Research released a new tool for identifying corporate disclosure of human and workers’ rights risks and opportunities in annual financial filings. The tool covers more than 5,000 U.S. and foreign companies’ filings (10-K, 20-F and 40-F) to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC search tool also expands Ceres’ work to address investors’ concerns about improving the disclosure of decision-useful sustainability information in mandatory filings.

Consumers Energy, Grand Rapids Public Schools Announce Finalists for Sixth Annual Student Art Competition

Organizers have announced the 10 finalists out of nearly 50 entries from Grand Rapids Public Schools student artists who will have their energy-related art work highlighted during this fall’s ArtPrize competition through collaboration with the school district and Consumers Energy.

Albertsons Companies Celebrates Dairy Month with Innovative Packaging

Over the years, we have proudly introduced our brands such as Lucerne®, Open Nature® and O Organics®, all offering an assortment of wholesome dairy products from milk, cheese and butter to yogurt and ice cream and everything in between. While the product quality and taste of these products is a no brainer, our environmental footprint is also of huge importance to our company. As part of our ongoing commitment to sustainability, we continue to explore opportunities to minimize our carbon emissions and reduce the waste output in our facilities. In honor of National Dairy Month this June, read on to learn more about how we are helping the environment by buying local and reducing plastic waste!

Tetra Tech Recognizes June as Safety Month

Tetra Tech places safety at the forefront of its daily operations, and its commitment to safety extends from executive management to hands-on project personnel and office staff around the world.

GRI's 6 Steps to Produce a Sustainability Report Materiality Assessment

As a standard setter in sustainability reporting, GRI has a responsibility to engage in sustainability reporting and exemplify best practice in doing so. GRI is sharing the process when writing their sustainability report, the problems that faced along the way, and the solutions found. And it all begins with the materiality assessment. ​

GRI Podcast: Sustainability Ratings

What do ratings agencies look at when evaluating companies’ sustainability performance? We asked this from Vigeo Eiris, who also told us about the common challenges businesses face with ESG reporting. Listen to the full interview, alongside the latest sustainability news, in GRI’s newest episode of Beyond Reports.

NAEM’s 2018 EHS&S Forum to Offer Specialized Content for Retail Leaders

The National Association for Environmental Management (NAEM) will collaborate with the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) to develop specialized retail-focused content for its 2018 EHS&S Management Forum in Louisville, the association announced today.

Better Together: The Next 10 Years of BIER—And Beyond

BIER believes that collaboration is key to tackling the complex and ever-changing sustainability challenges our world and industry faces. We’ve done incredible work, but we’re just getting started. Meet the environmental leaders committed to forging a more sustainable future for the beverage industry and world.

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