ESG News from Leading Brands

Environment

Tier II Reporting Season Is Fast Approaching

Dec 28, 2017 10:50 AM ET

Antea Group describes the EPA’s changes to the Tier II reporting requirements and provides tips to ease the reporting process

Research, Reports & Publications

2017 in Review: The GRI Sustainability Standards One Year On

Dec 28, 2017 10:00 AM ET

This year has been challenging for sustainability in many respects, but there have also been exciting developments in the sustainability reporting landscape. In this short series, we look back at GRI’s efforts, and at what 2018 has in store.

Environment

Flying High With Purpose- Carbon Reduction Challenge Student Blog Series

Dec 28, 2017 10:00 AM ET

Georgia Tech student, Elizabeth Jang describes how various programs, including the Carbon Reduction Challenge have increased her love of the environment.

Diversity & Inclusion

Tupperware Europe Celebrates The "Shero" in Giving Tuesday Campaign

Dec 28, 2017 9:05 AM ET

At Tupperware, we ignite a global community, especially women, to realize their best selves. #GivingTuesday is a global movement encouraging all of us to give. Give our time, our money, our goods and our voice. Tupperware leaders and friends are no strangers to those actions and with over 3 million sales force members worldwide, we see how those actions create confidence that radiates around the world.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Funding, Preparation and Culture Keys to Securing Critical Infrastructure and Systems

Dec 28, 2017 9:00 AM ET

Survey responses from the 2017 Strategic Directions: Natural Gas Industry Report suggest that a root cause of inadequate preparedness for risks may be insufficient funding for physical and cybersecurity initiatives. In fact, results reveal that approximately 65 percent of respondents either don’t know how much money is being earmarked or are allocating less than $1 million annually to fund security programs.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Community Tree Recovery: Restoring Neighborhoods, One Tree at a Time

Dec 28, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Trees play a vital role in our communities. So when natural disasters strike, the loss of trees is much more than meets the eye. The Community Tree Recovery program was created out of the great need for trees in the wake of natural disasters.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Xylem Watermark Volunteers Deploy Nine AquaTowers in Cambodia

Dec 28, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Twenty-three Xylem Watermark volunteers traveled from France, Germany, Sweden, and the US to not only install household solar power and water filtration systems, but to also deploy nine AquaTowers in rural schools within Siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces of Cambodia.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

10th Annual Subaru 'Share the Love®' Event Revs Up for Holiday Campaign Benefiting Make-A-Wish®

Dec 28, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Subaru of America, Inc. recently announced the launch of the 10th annual Share the Love® Event which will, for the seventh year, benefit Make-A-Wish America. Funds raised through the automaker's Share the Love event will help grant more life-changing wishes to children with critical illnesses.

Research, Reports & Publications

Caterpillar Bringing Reliable Energy to the Brazilian Amazon

Dec 27, 2017 5:00 PM ET

The nearly half million residents of Roraima, Boa Vista, are separated from the rest of Brazil by the nearly impenetrable Amazon rainforest.

Health & Healthcare

Going Flexitarian?

Dec 27, 2017 4:05 PM ET

It’s no longer simply trendy to say you’re eating less meat. I believe that more people are really taking to heart the message that plant foods offer so many health benefits—and are delicious, too. Americans are moving toward meals that are more plant-based, and they are having meat more occasionally. They’re being flexible about it.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Smithfield Foods Colorado Facility Participates in 32nd Annual Children's Colorado Toy Run

Dec 27, 2017 2:30 PM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Humana Is No. 1 in “JUST 100 List” Health Care Providers Industry Sector

Dec 27, 2017 1:30 PM ET

Humana has again been named one of America’s most JUST companies, ranking No. 1 in the Health Care Providers industry on JUST Capital and Forbes magazine’s JUST 100 List.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Building Sustainable and Inclusive Economies in Indo-Pacific

Dec 27, 2017 1:00 PM ET

Working together with policymakers, regulators and enterprises, GRI raises awareness and enhances reporting capacity on key sustainability issues in the Indo-Pacific region. GRI’s programs with the Australian government contribute to building a more inclusive economy that ultimately creates a higher quality of life.

Media & Communications

Carnival Corporation's AIDA New Year’s Raffle: Donations for SOS Children’s Villages, Mercy Ships and Fly & Help

Dec 27, 2017 10:30 AM ET

The annual New Year’s Raffle is taking place aboard all of the ships in the AIDA Cruises fleet. The proceeds from the raffle will once again go to a number of different projects.

For more than ten years, AIDA Cruises has supported the work of SOS Children’s Village with its worldwide projects for disadvantaged children. Thanks to our guests, it has been possible to support various SOS Children’s Village measures in Germany, Africa and the Philippines with donations totaling over one million euros.

Environment

Peru’s Integrated Approach to Nationally Determined Contributions Can Boost Agroforestry’s Role in Fighting Climate Change

Dec 27, 2017 9:20 AM ET

Peru’s Minister of Environment, Elsa Galarza, at a side event co-hosted by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) at this year’s United Nations’ climate talks in Bonn, Germany, presented the country’s innovative, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder approach to its NDCs supported by a Framework Law on Climate Change that is pending approval.

Environment

Dell, Lonely Whale Launch Collaborative to Eliminate Marine Plastic Pollution

Dec 27, 2017 9:10 AM ET

Health & Healthcare

Design for Wellness: Strategies to Unite Health & Design

Dec 27, 2017 8:35 AM ET

Design can be about many things: beauty, symmetry, color - but one of the most powerful elements of building and space design is the opportunity to impact and improve the health and well-being of people. Through thoughtful design choices like strategic placement of drinking water stations, selection of non-toxic materials and lighting that aligns with the body’s circadian rhythms, designers can be ambassadors for public health, a mission that we wholeheartedly believe in.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Subaru Share the Love® Event Generously Supports Meals on Wheels and So Can You

Dec 27, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Through the 2017 Share the Love Event, from November 16, 2017, to January 2, 2018, Subaru will donate $250 for every new Subaru vehicle purchased or leased to the customer's choice of the four national charities, including Meals on Wheels America, with a minimum guarantee of $250,000. In addition to these partners, Subaru retailers have selected hundreds of hometown charities for their customers to support as well. By the end of this year, Subaru and its participating retailers will have donated over $115 million to help those in need.

Sustainable Development Goals

Energy-Saving Trees and Oncor Electric Delivery Celebrate Five Years of Providing Environmental Benefits to Texas

Dec 27, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Energy-Saving Trees, a program of the Arbor Day Foundation, and Oncor Electric Delivery are celebrating the completion of their fifth year of partnership resulting in valuable social and environmental impact to Oncor customers across the state of Texas.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Tetra Tech Helps Provide a Solar-powered Water Supply System

Dec 27, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Tetra Tech has been a longtime supporter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), helping communities around the world meet their basic human needs. Tetra Tech partnered with the EWB Boston Professional Chapter to help bring clean, reliable water to the 4,000 residents of Mapinduzi, Tanzania. Tetra Tech supported the project through its 2016 Charity of the Year employee giving campaign, which raised funds for system installation in 2017.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Urgent Needs for 2018

Dec 27, 2017 7:15 AM ET

Aligning the capital markets more directly with the urgent needs we face as a society to halt environmental destruction and reverse decades of worsening inequality must be our priority for 2018. Alignment needs to occur at every level, across the global markets. Despite the tremendous efforts behind the Paris Climate Accord, formalization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and a long history of other efforts to change the course of climate change and inequality, we are not making nearly the progress needed. The 1,700 signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, which represent $70 trillion of assets and a wave of press about environmental, social and governance-oriented investing, have not gotten us on track.

Education

Amgen Scholars Alumni David Isaac Berrios Shares the Larger Significance of His Research

Dec 27, 2017 7:00 AM ET

"Moving forward, I am confident that obtaining a graduate education will empower me to improve the quality of life for others. My ultimate career goal is to become a scientist who inspires others to achieve their goals."

Media & Communications

Restoring Net Neutrality

Dec 26, 2017 12:05 PM ET

Who owns the internet? The answer in the USA is “We all do”! The internet research and invention was paid for by US taxpayers and then turned over to the private sector, becoming the basic platform today for our entire economy and society!

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Your Gift Gives Teens in Foster Care the Chance to Succeed

Dec 26, 2017 10:00 AM ET

The first thing Jamie Honerlaw, a Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiter, noticed about De’Andre was his outgoing personality. She knew what kind of family De’Andre wanted — one with a mom and a dad and little siblings – and was determined to find it for him. He’d been in foster care for nearly four years when Jamie introduced him to the Fargasons. She knew their family was the perfect fit for De’Andre.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Flocking for 400 Turkeys

Dec 22, 2017 4:50 PM ET

Whirlpool Corporation, along with the PGA of America and the city of Benton Harbor, sponsored the third annual Holiday Food Sharing Program in Benton Harbor, Mich. to distribute food boxes and more than 400 turkeys to families in need.