ESG News from Leading Brands

Keep up with the latest environmental, social and governance news from companies embracing the triple bottom line, shared via 3BL's distribution platform.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

KEEN Footwear Awarded Prestigious Good Housekeeping 2021 Sustainability Innovation Award For PFC Free, Detox The Planet Initiative

KEEN, the footwear brand on a mission to make outside inclusive and accessible to all, today announced that Good Housekeeping awarded the brand the Good Housekeeping 2021 Sustainability Innovation Award for its Detox the Planet initiative that keeps perfluorochemicals (PFCs) and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) out of its footwear.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Tork and the Green Bay Packers Team up to “Tackle Hygiene With Every Catch”

As fans returned to Lambeau Field for the home opener, the Green Bay Packers are teaming up with Tork ® , an Essity brand and the global leader in professional hygiene, to keep fans healthy and give back to the Green Bay and Milwaukee communities.

Environment

New Operating Range Performance for the IVECO BUS E-WAY: 543 Km on One Full Charge

The 12-m IVECO BUS E-WAY delivered a new performance in real operating conditions, demonstrating all the benefits of zero-emissions transport as well as the outstanding reliability and excellent performance offered by this full electric model.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Tomie Demystifies the Value of the LBX Positive Cryptocurrency Token

The Land Betterment Exchange is an environmentally driven token creating financial incentive and trading market to pull forward environmental cleanup and expedite the transition away from fossil fuels while providing #sustainable livable wage jobs.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Deckers Brands Hosts Its Third Art of Kindness Volunteering Event

Deckers Brands recently held its third Art of Kindness (AOK) week of volunteering where employees united to make a collective impact on their local communities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Mosquitoes and Mud: A Lineworker's Day in South Louisiana

Jude Orgeron, an Entergy Louisiana operations coordinator, cut to the core of what it’s like for crews working around the clock in swamps and marshes to bring back power to the hardest hit areas of the Bayou State by Hurricane Ida.

Health & Healthcare

Herbalife Nutrition Expands their Global Impact for Nutrition for Zero Hunger

We live in a world where several major drivers have contributed to worsening food insecurity, hunger, and malnutrition.

Environment

Ahead of COP26, New Guide Aims to Help Investors Evaluate and Strengthen Corporate Climate Commitments

At a time where it is more urgent than ever that companies act boldly on the climate crisis, a new guide released today by the sustainability nonprofit Ceres aims to shed light on the often-confusing array of corporate commitments, providing investors with clear and practical guidance on evaluating corporate greenhouse gas commitments and effectively engaging the largest companies to increase their climate ambition and action.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

A Public-Private-People Partnership Gives Old Shoes a Second Life

Earlier this summer, Dow joined the national sports agency Sport Singapore (SportSG) and other partners to establish a first-of-its-kind permanent shoe-waste collection ecosystem in Asia Pacific.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

HP Launches Program to Support Girls Involved in Local Sustainability Efforts

HP announced a new program this week centered around supporting female sustainability leaders in solving the most urgent environmental problems.

Environment

Chevron, Enterprise Explore Carbon Storage Business Opportunities

Chevron U.S.A. Inc., through its Chevron New Energies division, and a subsidiary of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) announced a framework to study and evaluate opportunities for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) from their respective business operations in the U.S. Midcontinent and Gulf Coast.

Health & Healthcare

Abbott and Real Madrid Team Up to Support the Health and Nutrition of Children Globally

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced it has entered into a three-year agreement to be the Health Sciences and Nutrition Partner of the Real Madrid Football Club and Global Partner of the Real Madrid Foundation

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Alliance Data, National Network to End Domestic Violence Partner to End Domestic Violence

Alliance Data is partnering with the National Network to End Domestic Violence during October’s Domestic Violence Month to take a stand against domestic and financial abuse.

Education

Mentors Make Lasting Impact on Students

In her four years as program director for the Verizon Innovative Learning Rural Young Women program at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland, June Evans has seen her students blossom.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Fifth Third Neighborhood Investment Program to Support Transformation of the Near East Side of Columbus

Fifth Third intends to commit up to $20 million in lending, investments and philanthropic support, including grants from the Fifth Third Foundation to the Near East Side PACT Neighborhood.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Give Me an H: Arlette Guthrie Talks Work-life Balance and Home Depot Magic

Once an intern and now the senior vice president of Human Resources, Arlette Guthrie has spent more than 20 years at The Home Depot.

Environment

Quantis Strengthens Biodiversity Offering With New Methodology to Assess Corporate Footprint on Nature

Global sustainability consultancy Quantis announces the development of a new methodology — Ecosystem AnalytiQs — to enable corporate action to halt biodiversity loss through the quantification of company-driven impacts on nature.

While climate change has become a major concern for businesses, biodiversity has yet to reach the same level of priority, despite their inextricable link. Based on life cycle assessment, Ecosystem AnalytiQs allows the consultancy to guide companies to close the gap between knowledge and practice by providing meaningful metrics that enable them to prioritize actions to decrease their impact on biodiversity.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Ninety One Launches Decarbonization '40 Act Fund to Meet Growing Demand for Climate-Aware Investment Solutions

Ninety One Launches Decarbonization ‘40 Act Fund to meet growing demand for Climate-Aware Investment Solutions, Deirdre Cooper and Graeme Baker to manage the US Fund.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

LA Kings Host Girls Youth Hockey Clinics With Blake Bolden

AEG’s LA Kings recently kicked off its Girls Youth Hockey Clinics on Oct. 8 at the club’s newly re-opened LA Kings Ice at Promenade on the Peninsula in Southern California.

Education

Inspiring the Next Generation of STEM Experts

P&G and other industry leaders focus on improving diversity and access to opportunity in the STEM fields, supporting K-12 STEM education for under-resourced schools with the STEM Careers Coalition.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SC Johnson Ranked No. 7 on List of World’s Top 25 Best Workplaces™ by Fortune and Great Place to Work®

SC Johnson, the maker of household brands such as Windex®, Mrs. Meyer’s® Clean Day and Scrubbing Bubbles®, today announced it has been named as one of the 25 World’s Best Workplaces™ by Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work®.

Innovation & Technology

How Business Can Help Close the Digital Divide for Millions of Students

The 2021-2022 school year is the third affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Responsible Production & Consumption

VSC Releases Progress Report Highlighting 10 Vantage Vinyl Verified Companies

Collaborating for Better: 2020 Progress Report, a transparent view into the growth of the VSC’s industry sustainability initiative, +Vantage Vinyl™.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru Share the Love Event Returns for Fourteenth Consecutive Year

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced the annual Subaru Share the Love® Event will return in 2021 for its fourteenth consecutive year.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

India Virtual Internship Program (VIP): Enabling Skillsets of the Future

In today’s world, safety of people and things will be rooted in digital trust, with cybersecurity and data privacy at the core. Currently, the demand for cybersecurity talent is outpacing supply, and this is a problem in multiple new areas of technology where the landscape is changing swiftly.

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