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CSRHub’s Cynthia Figge Speaking at CSR 5.0

Events, Media & Communications

Skytop Strategies will launch its fifth annual CSR Summit hosted in partnership with Nasdaq at their Entrepreneurial Center on April 17th in San Francisco.

ClearBridge Highlights Benefits of Sustainable Investment Approach in Annual Impact Report

Research, Reports & Publications

ClearBridge Investments released its annual Impact Report, which details the environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations that have been a crucial part of its investment process for over 30 years.

GM Earns 2019 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

General Motors has earned a 2019 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award in Energy Management for continued leadership and superior contributions to ENERGY STAR. This is GM’s eighth recognition for Sustained Excellence. GM’s commitment to reducing energy intensity since 2010 has eliminated 1.5 million tons in carbon emissions, equivalent to the electric use of 260,000 homes for a year.

Frontier Co-op is #FundingHerFuture through Whole Planet Foundation

The brand has been a proud supporter of Whole Planet Foundation since 2012, donating more than $460,000 to alleviate global poverty through microcredit and renewing their membership in the $100,000 Fund in 2019.

Consumers Energy Receives National Recognition as ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year, Saves Customers $2 Billion on Bills

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Consumers Energy is being honored for the seventh time in eight years with the ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award for energy efficiency programs that have saved Michigan homes and businesses over $2 billion. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hands out Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Awards to organizations that are leaders in reducing energy waste. The awards are the highest level of recognition from the EPA.

The Five Ws of Supply Chains: Who, What, Where, When and Why Corporations Should Care

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Not a month goes by without a media campaign linking the supply chain of a well-known brand with unsavory labor practices or environmental mismanagement. Such exposés can devalue brands and reduce well-meaning corporate sustainability initiatives to hypocrisy. Beyond financial and reputational risks, a corporation that doesn’t know its supply chain can be caught flat-footed when the regions it sources from are rocked by political and environmental upheaval.

California Bill to Ban Paper Receipts Promotes Paper Myths

Are paper receipts going the way of plastic straws? Just say no.

Proposed legislation, California bill AB 161, dubbed “Skip the Slip,” would require retailers to generate electronic receipts unless customers request paper receipts. Find out why Domtar is saying when it comes to legislation banning paper receipts, skip the myths before you skip the slips.

Motivation: Playing for a Winning Team

As Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” This is motivation at its core. Of course, actually putting this statement into play is easier said than done. It’s an art, not a science, and it can be demanding…even daunting for some. But as challenging as it may be, since you can actually do very little by yourself, sustaining your team’s motivation is the most important ingredient for success.

SC Johnson Asia Debuts on 2019 Best Multinational Workplace List

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Today, SC Johnson announces that it has been recognized as a Best Multinational Workplace in Asia by Great Place to Work®. This is the first time the company’s Asia region has been recognized as a Best Workplace. SC Johnson Asia ranked No. 22 on the 2019 list of top places to work in the region.

Black & Veatch’s Leading-Edge Platform Gives Managers Instant Access to Workers’ Credentials at Job Sites, Proactively Enhancing Safety

For Black & Veatch safety managers at job sites, keeping tabs on whether employees and contractors had the proper training, certification and licenses for the work required thumbing through inches-thick binders of the crew’s credentials. While helping ensure compliance with safety requirements, little about the logs were quick or efficient, considering that hundreds of people could be on a job site.

Practitioner Spotlight--Kylle Barrieau

Environment

Antea Group spotlights Kylle Barrieau, a Health and Safety Project Manager based in in Denver, Colorado.

Cisco GPS Challenge Highlights | Social Entrepreneur Neopenda Improves Newborn Health in Low-Resource Settings

Health & Healthcare

Neopenda makes lightweight, low-power wearable monitors that monitor newborn vitals, with the aim of improving newborn health in low-resource settings. The medical device company entered and won the 2016 Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge Prize at the Rice Business Plan Competition.

Cisco's competitions help today's innovators become tomorrow's Global Problem Solvers. Learn more about Cisco's annual Global Problem Solver Challenge

MetLife Named 2019 Energy Star® Partner of the Year

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MetLife, Inc.received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2019 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award for its commitment to energy efficiency, including ENERGY STAR certifications for over 22.3 million square feet of real estate across MetLife’s corporate office network and the portfolio managed by MetLife’s institutional asset management platform, MetLife Investment Management (MIM).

Technology Can Help Us End the Scourge of Modern Slavery. Here's How

Responsible Production & Consumption

Modern slavery: it’s a strange term.

The word 'modern' generally has positive connotations. It’s up-to-date. Recent. Fresh. Cutting-edge.

Juxtapose that with the word 'slavery'. A most outdated concept. Captivity. Bondage. Oppression and repression. In the 21st century, slavery is surely something that only crazed individuals or dictators could possibly countenance.

ScottsMiracle-Gro Recycles 5 Billion Pounds of Green Waste Annually

Responsible Production & Consumption

ScottsMiracle-Gro is relentless in our effort to find a product solution that is a win for the environment, consumers and business. Green waste recycling is an example of one solution, offering the opportunity to divert waste from landfills by incorporating it into beneficial new soil products.

Why Good Standards  -  Both ESG and Financial  - Matter

Why sustainability reporting matters, to investors & others - and the need to work together to further increase corporate transparency more broadly. Tim Mohin of GRI refutes ‘greenwashing’ claims by Hans Hoogervorst.

Behind Aflac’s Partnership with Country Music and Its Famous Duck

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Aflac is contributing $50,000 to Musicians On Call through ACM Lifting Lives to help develop and fund music-related therapy and education programs.

Scaling Your Volunteer Program for Greater Impact

Social Impact & Volunteering

What started as a one-day event in seven cities quickly spread to 170 cities, engaging 7,000 employees and supporting 300 nonprofits. How? Amanda Lenaghan, Senior Program Manager of Schwab Community Services, gives us the inside scoop and reveals how one event can catalyze year-round Goodness!

Circular Economy Webinar – Complimentary

Events, Media & Communications

With increasing pressure on natural and man-made resources, innovative companies are taking a lifecycle assessment approach and tackling circularity from as early as product development, with the goal of reaping the reputational and commercial benefits.

Sharing Our Skills To Strengthen Communities

Social Impact & Volunteering

Bristol-Myers Squibb loves that its employees are committed to giving back to causes they care about. That’s why the company not only encourages them to share their skills to strengthen the communities where it does business, but the company gives them paid time for volunteering through the Skills 2 Give program.

Republic Services Celebrates Opening of “Next-Gen” Recycling Center in Plano, Texas

Environment

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) today celebrated the opening of its new “Next-Gen” recycling facility and learning center in Plano, Texas. The 77,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility serves more than 510,000 residents and 2,500 commercial customers throughout the Metroplex – including Plano, Richardson and other neighboring cities.

Fraudulent Ecuadorian Judgment Is Unenforceable Against Chevron’s Canadian Subsidiary

The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a request to review a decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario that a $9.5 billion Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron Corporation cannot be enforced against Chevron Canada Limited, an indirect subsidiary. The Court of Appeal for Ontario’s decision, which is now final, dismissed all claims against Chevron Canada Limited, holding that it is a separate entity from Chevron Corporation and that its shares and assets cannot be seized by those seeking to enforce the corrupt Ecuadorian judgment. The Ecuadorian judgment itself has already been found by U.S. courts and an international tribunal in The Hague to have been obtained through fraud, bribery and corruption.

Switching Workplace Giving Providers: Your Guide for Choosing a New Partner for Your Employee Giving Program

You're not new to workplace giving. You know how important it is to your employees to work for a company where giving and volunteering is supported and you understand how much nonprofits rely on your team's support to tackle tough issues and improve the world around us.