ESG News from Leading Brands

Education

Solving for Tomorrow: An Education Focused TweetChat on October 14

Oct 14, 2015 11:30 AM ET

Join @SamsungTweets, @PLTWorg, @EEWeek @USNewsEducation and @BrainPop for a discussion about how teachers and parents can help to engage students to use science, technology, engineering and math to improve their communities.

Environment

Secretary Kerry and UN Special Envoy Bloomberg Welcome International Mayors for Our Cities, Our Climate

Oct 14, 2015 11:25 AM ET

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Michael R. Bloomberg, U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, will welcome mayors from major global cities to the State Department at 12:30 p.m. on October 8 for the “Our Cities, Our Climate” working sessions and luncheon.

Social Impact & Volunteering

To Thrive, Your Company Needs a Soul – Find It in Volunteer Service

Oct 14, 2015 11:15 AM ET

In my 25-plus-year career, one thing has become abundantly clear to me. Companies with an engaged employee base are the companies that tend to thrive.

Environment

Ascension Health Joins Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council

Oct 14, 2015 11:10 AM ET

The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ascension to its Healthcare Facility Advisory Board (HFAB), a role intended to help the council set priorities and steer the agenda towards its mission of inspiring and enabling sustainable, cost-effective recycling solutions for plastic products and materials used in the delivery of healthcare.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CITGO and PAPCO Inc. Give Back to Virginia Beach Community

Oct 14, 2015 11:05 AM ET

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Little Ideas are the Secret to Big Innovation

Oct 14, 2015 11:00 AM ET

Innovation. It’s one of those buzzy business words you hear in commercials for cars or even vacuum cleaners or perhaps read in full-page ads printed in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. But what does it really mean to innovate in 2015?

Environment

All Climate Change is Local

Oct 14, 2015 11:00 AM ET

When world leaders gather in Paris in December to negotiate a global agreement on climate change, they will have a powerful ally standing behind them and urging them onward: mayors.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bacardi USA Receives U.S. EPA 2015 SmartWay® Excellence Award

Oct 14, 2015 10:40 AM ET

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Biomimicry: How Business Learns From Nature

Oct 14, 2015 10:10 AM ET

What does biomimicry have to do with Green Money? Well, everything. Biomimicry is the conscious emulation of nature’s wisdom, a methodology that is based not on harvesting nature but on learning from nature. This approach is beginning to shape our cities, our companies, and our social sphere, and has profound implications for investing and for life.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

“Banorte” y “Los 40 Principales” México donan 1.75 millones de pesos a causas sociales

Oct 14, 2015 10:00 AM ET

Grupo Financiero Banorte y Los 40 Principales México mantienen con éxito la alianza estratégica que iniciaron en mayo del 2013 y que dio origen a una tarjeta de crédito de marca compartida –Tarjeta 40-, tras incrementar en este año el número de organizaciones beneficiadas y el monto de los donativos otorgados.

Innovation & Technology

Addressing the Youth Employment Crisis Needs Urgent Global Action

Oct 14, 2015 10:00 AM ET

One third of the world’s 1.8 billion young people are currently neither in employment, education or training. Of the one billion more youth that will enter the job market in the next decade, only 40 percent are expected to be able to get jobs that currently exist. The global economy will need to create 600 million jobs over the next 10 years – five million jobs each month -- simply to keep pace with projected youth employment rates.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Singapore Adopts RoHS-Like Directive

Oct 14, 2015 10:00 AM ET

The trend towards supply chain transparency is not only growing and evolving within areas already implementing regulations, but it is also expanding into new regions. While many in the European Union saw the good that the RoHS directive was doing, others around the world quickly began to take notice.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

“Banorte” and “Los 40 Principales Mexico” Donate Ps 1.75 Million to Social Causes

Oct 14, 2015 10:00 AM ET

Grupo Financiero Banorte and the radio station Los 40 Principales Mexico successfully maintain the strategic alliance that began in May 2013 and which gave rise to the co-branded Tarjeta 40 credit card - after increasing the number of beneficiary organizations and the amount of donations granted this year.

Health & Healthcare

$25 Million Grant from James M. Cox Foundation Aims to Transform Patient Care at Emory

Oct 14, 2015 10:00 AM ET

A $25 million grant from the James M. Cox Foundation will launch new patient-centered care models at Emory designed to improve patient experiences and outcomes. Prostate cancer care will be the initial clinical focus of the model.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

TD Centre Becomes One of North America's Largest LEED Platinum-certified Facilities

Oct 14, 2015 9:50 AM ET

Environment

Held to High Fiber Standards

Oct 14, 2015 9:30 AM ET

These third-party certification programs provide assurance that wood-based products have been procured from well-managed forests and are legally harvested. In 2014, we purchased more kraft fiber than historic levels to support the papermaking operations in Cloquet after the 2013 conversion of that pulp mill to dissolving wood pulp. All of our purchased pulp was certified by one or more standards, which is reflected in the higher percentage of “triple certified” fiber and in part responsible for us reaching our five-year goal one year ahead of schedule.

Research, Reports & Publications

CBRE Global Investors Continues Its Strong GRESB Performance

Oct 14, 2015 9:15 AM ET

Responsible Production & Consumption

Private sector can help feed growing world population

Oct 14, 2015 1:00 AM ET

Ulla Holm, Global Director of Tetra Pak’s Food for Development Office, talks about the role the private sector plays in feeding the growing world population. She highlights food loss as a big issue, especially in the developing world where food gets damaged or lost at a number of points along the food value chain.

Diversity & Inclusion

Look at That Face

Oct 13, 2015 6:30 PM ET

Presidential politics took an odd turn a few weeks ago when one candidate summarized the prospects for Ms. Fiorina's presidential ambitions in four words: "Look at that face." My immediate reaction couldn't for the most part be printed in these pages, but the comment stuck with me. The equally ugly comments last week against ESPN’s Jessica Mendoza, who had the audacity to call a major league baseball game, prompted me to consider both attacks, in all their blunt honesty, at greater length.

Social Impact & Volunteering

CSX, City Year, and National and Local Partners Give Back “Beyond Our Rails” at Service Day in Cincinnati

Oct 13, 2015 5:25 PM ET

Education

700 Freshmen at George Washington High School Make Commitment to Complete in 4 Years at ‘Reverse Graduation’

Oct 13, 2015 5:10 PM ET

George Washington High School in Northeast Philadelphia is calling on its 700 freshmen to make a public commitment to themselves, their families, and their communities, to graduate in four years. George Washington hosted its ‘Reverse Graduation’ for 9th graders, during which each freshman, dressed in cap and gown, will cross the stage and promise to make the necessary personal investments to complete their secondary education.

Joining the family and community members gathered to support the freshmen was global food, facilities and uniform industry leader Aramark (NYSE ARMK), who will stand alongside the school’s young people and match their pledge by providing a three year, $300,000 grant to PAI to build a hospitality industry pipeline.

Environment

GM Dealers Test the Waters of Environmental Education

Oct 13, 2015 4:00 PM ET

General Motors dealers are getting their feet wet in environmental science as a part of the company’s growing watershed education program.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Wales Prepares for International Anti-Slavery Day Sunday, October 18th 2015

Oct 13, 2015 4:00 PM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Rainbow PUSH Coalition Honors FCA US Manager Leven Weiss with Living Legend Award

Oct 13, 2015 3:15 PM ET

Health & Healthcare

Answering the UN’s Call to Make a High Quality Antiseptic for Newborn Cord Care in Developing Countries

Oct 13, 2015 2:10 PM ET

GSK today announced that it has submitted a regulatory application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its antiseptic chlorhexidine gel (7.1% chlorhexidine digluconate gel, equivalent to 4% chlorhexidine) for the prevention of umbilical cord infections (omphalitis) in newborn babies. GSK’s work to develop the gel began in response to a call from the United Nations (UN) in 2012 for manufacturers to make a high quality chlorhexidine product suitable for newborn infants in low resources settings.