A Year in Purpose: The Top 10 Trends of 2018

As the year draws to a close, Cone evaluated a year’s worth of purpose-driven news, activities, campaigns and announcements to bring you the top 10 trends of 2018.

PurpleAir Founder Adrian Dybwad

Northern California’s now infamous Camp Fire was not only the largest, longest, and deadliest wildfire in the state’s history, it also produced record amounts of smoke. Schools closed, there was a run on protective masks, and people were fashioning do-it-yourself air purifiers because there were none left in stores.

BIER Member Spotlight: Al Halvorsen

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) highlights their members' beverage industry sustainability insights and ideas in their BIER Member Spotlight series on a monthly basis. These spotlights include their answers to questions about their company's sustainability achievements and strategy, practical insights from BIER, interesting facts, and more.

The Drucker Institute 2018 Management Top 250 Rankings Includes CSRHub Metrics

CSRHub is honored to once again have our metrics included in the Drucker Institute Management Top 250 Rankings this year.

The Drucker Institute has brought together five dimensions of corporate performance—Customer Satisfaction, Employee Engagement and Development, Innovation, Social Responsibility and Financial Strength—to create a holistic perspective based on Peter Drucker’s core principles.

Biodiversity at NRG Energy

Biodiversity promotes healthy ecosystems and human interaction with nature. That’s why we designed our environmental policy to foster the protection of the natural habitats surrounding our generation sites.

econrg: NRG's Environmental Stewardship Initiative

econrg® promotes ecological stewardship among our plant employees with initiatives aimed at improving environmental awareness and education.

NRG's 2017 Water Performance

We set a goal to reduce water withdrawal 40 percent by 2030 from 2014 levels. In 2017, we met this goal.

Energy CEO: Change Is Necessary, Not Easy

The energy landscape is changing and the energy industry is changing with it. The key is finding affordable solutions to bring people power.
That was the message Patti Poppe, president and CEO of CMS Energy, highlighted at the West Coast Chamber’s Wake Up West Coast breakfast on Tuesday, Dec. 11. Poppe spoke primarily about the transition from coal to clean energy at Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy.

Lorenzo J. de Rosenzweig Pasquel Joins the WEC Gold Medal Award Jury

WEC warmly welcomes Lorenzo J. de Rosenzweig Pasquel to the WEC Gold Medal Award’s independent jury. Lorenzo joins a distinguished group of international leaders that select the Gold Medal recipient annually. The WEC Gold Medal Award for International Achievement in Sustainable Development is one of the most prestigious forms of recognition of a global company's ongoing commitment to the practice of sustainable development.

Rolland Papers: The Smallest Carbon Footprint

If you are not familiar with Rolland Paper, get to know this Québec-based paper company. For one thing, unlike many of its competitors within the pulp and paper sector – not to mention many companies across all sectors – Rolland wears its environmental credentials on its sleeve.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Global Heat Reduction Initiative
    News and updates from the Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR).
  2. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  3. Subaru Love Promise: Pets
    Subaru believes all pets deserve a loving home and we are the largest corporate donor to the ASPCA®. Subaru is proud to help make the world a better...
  4. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  5. GoDaddy | Customers
    GoDaddy is the world’s largest services platform for entrepreneurs around the globe. We’re on a mission to empower our worldwide community of 20+...
  6. Community Impact
    Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.
  7. Collaboration and Partnership
    Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...
  8. Social Progress
    Social engagement has always been an integral part of our sense of responsibility as a company. We care and we act to do our part to improve the...
  9. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  10. PSEG Awards & Recognition
    PSEG and its employees are honored to receive a number of awards and recognition from organizations from a variety of disciplines. This recognition...