NAEM’s 2016 Planning for a Sustainable Future benchmarks progress on the new initiatives that are on the minds of, if not yet in the budgets of those directing sustainability at leadership companies.
Where the rubber meets the road. A cliché for where the hard work takes place, but for Wendy’s franchisee Ed Anderson, it’s truly where he plans to raise $1 million for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.
“And there are those who do not yet know that they are good.” This quote is from Mandar Apte, one of the panelists on my “Building Substantive and Collaborative Networks” panel at Sustainatopia in San Francisco earlier this month. In his years at Shell Oil at the intersection of Sustainability and Innovation, Mandar learned that you never know where solutions will come from, and you never know ahead of time who the person with the breakthrough idea will be. His advice: “Make a new friend every day.” And for those tackling climate change, make sure you’re addressing not just the external climate, but also “the climate within.” Your authenticity and your integrity are what make collaboration possible.
On April 15, 2016, Dr. Jordan Potash, ATR-BC, REAT, LCPAT, LCAT, represented the American Art Therapy Association at Color Party: TEDx NYU (New York University). As a student organization, TEDx NYU plans annual conferences and smaller community events that act as platforms to address pertinent topics. Along with fellow art therapists and digital arts developers, Dr. Potash discussed adult coloring books by comparing it to other leisure-based and success-oriented activities and contrasting it to art therapy, a regulated mental health profession.
Partnerships are intended to de-risk a project, but carry risks of their own,” Judy Brown, the Chief Advisor for External Affairs in the East Pacific and Latin America at Rio Tinto and a veteran of field-level sustainability work, advised a group of 15 students in the Georgetown Master of Science in Foreign Service program. For both the public and private sector, the advent of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) make partnerships that catalyze the development of local markets especially important. Brown had joined Whitney Shinkle, a senior advisor to Bancroft Global Development, and me to speak with my class on public-private partnerships about the ethics, risks, and benefits of partnering with local governments and NGOs, something large companies are increasingly being
Cereal brand Kashi has long been in the organic food space. In fact, it was the first to launch an organic cereal back in 2002, according to Take Part. Now, in an effort to keep up with demand, Kashi is offering a new way to encourage farms to transition to organic. This week the brand announced it will be introducing a "Certified Transitional" label on certain cereals.
Causecast, the premiere global SaaS technology company helping organizations build irresistible giving and volunteering programs, and Versaic, the leading provider of corporate contribution, grants, and sponsorship program management solutions, have introduced an integrated software solution that combines best of breed tools for volunteering and giving, delivering greater insight, efficiency and impact to their clients. Companies will now be able to draw on Causecast and Versaic’s combined 20+ years of CSR, cause marketing and employee engagement expertise and benefit from complete, trusted, and scalable software to amplify their impact.
Nestlé in the United States welcomes the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rules on the revision of the Nutrition and Supplemental Facts labels and updating of the serving sizes.
Experience (expapp.com) was named the inaugural winner in the newly created “Best in Mobile Fan Experience” category at the ninth annual Sports Business Awards. This is the second SBA victory for the company, winning in 2014 for “Best in Sports Technology.”
TORRANCE, Calif., May 23, 2016 /3BL Media/ – Demonstrating an ongoing commitment to supporting the sale of green vehicles, Toyota Financial Services (TFS) issued its third Asset-Backed Green Bond in the amount of $1.6 billion.
Today, KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) released its 2015 Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report, detailing the company’s responsible approach to banking, citizenship and operations during the 2015 calendar year. The annual report describes and shares data related to KeyBank's products and services, diversity and philanthropy initiatives and sustainability efforts.
The brand promise of Atlas Copco is to be committed to sustainable productivity. Let us share with you some of the steps we are most proud of which we have made in the United States.
With the opening of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Nestlé has announced the finalists for the Creating Shared Value [CSV] Prize 2016:Natural Extracts Industries [NEI] from Tanzania and Agro-Hub from Cameroun. After four screening phases, the two finalists were selected from a group of 450 applicants by the Nestlé CSV Council, along with 9 independent experts and 9 Nestlé internal experts.
GreenBiz Group has been named the official livestream partner for the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Public-Private Action Summit, an all-day event on June 2 in San Francisco.
The summit is part of CEM7, the seventh annual gathering of energy ministers from the world’s largest and most forward-leaning countries working together to accelerate the global transition to clean energy. The United States hosted the first CEM meeting in Washington, D.C., in 2010.
