Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany has published its tenth Corporate Responsibility Report, covering the year 2018.

To raise awareness for the important role community gardens play in neighborhoods, ScottsMiracle-Gro joined other central Ohio partners––including the City of Columbus, Columbus Public Health, Franklin County, The Columbus Foundation, Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens and Hidden Creek Landscaping––in an Earth Day celebration on the ScottsMiracle-Gro Community Garden Campus at Franklin Park Conservatory on April 12.

We’re eight years into our 10-year Unilever Sustainable Living Plan and have made significant progress across many of our ambitious targets. We have also learnt a lot during that time. Not least that new technologies, new business models and new ways of thinking are all vital to creating the change the world needs – quickly and at scale.

In the U.S., 1 in 59 children is diagnosed with autism. Nearly every family and community is touched in some way.

While the diagnosis is common, public understanding of autism is not. This lack of understanding can make life even more difficult for children with autism.

National Grid President John Bruckner on how gas, both green and natural, will play a role in securing our clean energy future.

CBRE Group, Inc. announced that the company has been recognized for sustained excellence across several categories in The Best of The Global Outsourcing 100 (GO100) by IAOP®, which has identified the “best of the best” global outsourcing firms, across all industries, from the past ten years.

The invention, called “My Special Aflac Duck,” was named one of Time Magazine’s best inventions of 2018, and it’s easy to see why, as kids rapidly grow attached to them. “We consider the duck a social robot,” inventor Aaron J. Horowitz said. “He is a constant companion for kids that can really share in the experience that they are having, and can give them a better tool to communicate how they feel.” The duck responds to the touch of a child’s hands, and can even indicate that it’s being tickled, quacking rapidly when it’s tickled under its wings.

Inspiring others to show they care through acts of kindness speaks to the essence of the Hallmark brand. Hallmark’s Care Enough campaign highlighted the selfless acts of dozens of individuals to inspire others to perform acts of caring.

Although more than seven-in-10 (73%) Americans think global warming is happening and nearly the same amount (72%) say global warming is important to them personally, according to new research from Yale, the concept of climate change is still called into question on a nearly daily basis.

When does an everyday errand become a life-changing act of kindness? When a simple packaged good purchase helps bring clean drinking water to children, families, and communities that desperately need it; when “1=1” means that consumers can help support an urgent global initiative that’s changing lives.