ESG News from Leading Brands

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Keep America Beautiful Launches Online Auctions for Chance to Win Tickets to Winter’s Biggest Sports Events

Dec 22, 2016 2:45 PM ET

Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s leading nonprofit that envisions a country in which every community is a clean, green and beautiful place to live, today launched the “#DoBeautifulThings — Sports Auctions” with Charitybuzz, the premier destination for nonprofit online auctions.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Engineering a Happy Holiday for Clients and Customers Helps Make the Season Brighter for Those Offshore

Dec 22, 2016 1:50 PM ET

Sodexo, a world leader in Quality of Life Services, will make the holidays special for hundreds of men and women working on the 34 offshore oil rigs that the company serves in the Gulf of Mexico.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Notes from The Square Deal Inbox: One Customer’s Heartwarming Story

Dec 22, 2016 1:30 PM ET

It was a new experience for our family, having a third birthday for Amos at Wendy's. Our family historically has birthday parties at home, where a multitude of kids and entire families spill into our neighboring parking lot, and chaos breeds happy little people. Amos is an enigma though. He may adore his own family, but he doesn't naturally gravitate towards his peers and he doesn't love a crowd like the rest of us. As much as I longed to have a party, deep down I knew it would only be for me.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A More Sustainable Shipping Journey

Dec 22, 2016 12:00 PM ET

We know many of our customers want to ship more, with less impact. From analyzing, packing, shipping, receiving, and returns, we have sustainable solutions for every step of the shipping journey.

Events, Media & Communications

NYT Brings Us Encouraging News in the Swelter of Negative Reports as Sustainability Advocates Consider Possible Changes of Course

Dec 22, 2016 11:45 AM ET

Leading Business readership publication focuses attention on the dramatic rise of ESG factors in investing over the past five years in wrap up story...

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Second Chance Center for Animals Receives $25,000 Grant from Nestlé Purina

Dec 22, 2016 11:40 AM ET

Second Chance Center for Animals is expanding its enrichment and training programs for shelter dogs with the opening of its Canine Sports Arena, made possible by a $25,000 donation from Nestlé Purina, a global leader in pet care with a facility in Flagstaff.

Education

T. Rowe Price’s Holiday Card Giving Campaign Aims for Impact

Dec 22, 2016 11:30 AM ET

Zambia’s Southern Province bordering Zimbabwe, home to the storied and soaring Victoria Falls, is a rich cultural mosaic with access to natural resources such as copper and water.

Health & Healthcare

Meet the two Finalist Teams in The Medical Tricorder Competition

Dec 22, 2016 11:00 AM ET

The contest to create the world’s first medical tricorder is down to two teams. Currently, both teams are undergoing the consumer testing phase of the competition and we should have a winner by the first half of 2017. Which puts the invention of the medical tricorder about 200 years ahead of schedule.

Events, Media & Communications

Sustainable Brands Opens Registration for SB’17 Detroit

Dec 22, 2016 10:30 AM ET

Sustainable Brands® opened early bird registration for its notable US conference: SB’17 Detroit. Best-available pricing for All Event Passes ends January 5th, 2017. The event will be held at Detroit’s world-class Cobo Center convention facility, May 22-25, 2017.

Social Impact & Volunteering

The Path to a Brighter Future

Dec 22, 2016 10:10 AM ET

When Jessica Souto unexpectedly lost her job, then her apartment, she didn’t know how she would support her three young children. Then she found the compassionate encouragement and practical tools she needed at Pocono Area Transitional Housing (PATH), which provides temporary housing and individualized support services to homeless Monroe County families.

Education

CITGO Lake Charles Refinery Hosts STEM Educational Workshop for Local Teachers

Dec 22, 2016 9:30 AM ET

The CITGO Lake Charles Refinery, in partnership with The National Energy Education Development Project (NEED), recently hosted an informational and educational workshop for 30 local STEM teachers to enhance the science, technology, engineering and math-based education curriculum used in their classrooms.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Alabama Tissue Site Uses Waste to Help Farmers Grow Crops

Dec 22, 2016 9:15 AM ET

SCA in Barton, Alabama, has started to provide a soil improver made from its residual solids. Nearby farmers have begun using the substance to improve the soil quality for growing crops. It’s a win-win: farmers improve their crops and SCA sends less solids to landfill.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Sappi Employees Are Giving Back to Neighboring Communities

Dec 22, 2016 9:00 AM ET

Over $15,000—that’s how much employees at Sappi’s Somerset Mill raised this holiday season to feed undernourished families in neighboring communities.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

BSR Conference 2016: Thinking the Unthinkable with Nik Gowing

Dec 22, 2016 9:00 AM ET

In a plenary address at the BSR Conference 2016, Co-Author of 'Thinking the Unthinkable' and Visiting Professor at King’s College London and Nanyang Technological University Nik Gowing explored how being bold can help build a better world.

Education

Xylem Impeller Takes a Look at the Science of Snow

Dec 22, 2016 8:15 AM ET

With winter approaching in the northern hemisphere, Impeller takes a look at the science of snow. From the creation a single snowflake to man-made mountains of it in the desert, these videos explore the beauty and complexity of snow.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Adapting to the Corporate Responsibility-Conscious Occupier

Dec 22, 2016 7:55 AM ET

Understanding occupier satisfaction is vital to the success of the property industry. It enables continuous improvement in relationships between landlords and tenants, and encourages best practice property management processes by managing agents.

Environment

Can Paper Be Eco-friendly? This Label Says Yes

Dec 22, 2016 7:50 AM ET

Innovation & Technology

Business Call to Action: Our Year in Highlights

Dec 21, 2016 7:05 PM ET

In 2016, new BCtA member companies have made significant commitments to all 17 SDGs. By 2030, these combined commitments will result in increased access to financial services for 22 million people, improved access to energy for 8 million people, improved health outcomes for over 500 million people and a 438-million-ton reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, along with many other positive outcomes.

Events, Media & Communications

TCFD's Long-Awaited Report Revealed

Dec 21, 2016 5:30 PM ET

After a year of intensive work, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) today laid out its eagerly-awaited recommendations designed to help standardise and mainstream considerations about the impacts of climate change on companies.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

A New Set of Wheels for Christmas

Dec 21, 2016 4:30 PM ET

In 1996, a few employees at Duke Energy’s Brunswick Nuclear Plant in Southport, N.C., decided to collect donations to buy a handful of bicycles for needy children at a local school. The next year, more employees participated and even more bikes were delivered.
Nearly 20 years later, the effort is still going strong.

Environment

Empowering the Marketplace for a Sustainable Future

Dec 21, 2016 4:15 PM ET

As the year is winding down, Leonardo Academy's team of experts is gearing up to expand the impact of their sustainability and environmental improvement projects.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Best Practice: Autumn 2016

Dec 21, 2016 4:15 PM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Jonathan Lash Appointed to International Living Future Institute Board of Directors

Dec 21, 2016 4:00 PM ET

The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) announced today that Jonathan Lash, president of Hampshire College and an internationally recognized sustainability leader, will join the ILFI’s Board of Directors. Under Lash’s leadership, Hampshire’s newly constructed 17,000 square foot R.W. Kern Center is pursuing certification as a Living Building, a major part of the college’s broad initiative to transform its campus into a living laboratory for sustainability systems and performance.

Energy

LG Leading the Way in LED Lighting Efficiency With 'No-Load Draw' and Wireless Technologies

Dec 21, 2016 3:00 PM ET

New LED ballasted tube lighting fixtures with external drivers from LG Electronics are among the first to meet the U.S. Department of Energy’s stringent new external power supply standards that took effect this year, LG Electronics USA announced.

Environment

An Exclusive Look at Climate of Hope, Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope’s New Book on Climate Change

Dec 21, 2016 2:40 PM ET

Climate change is perhaps the gravest challenge of this generation. And yet, its sharpest consequences are often local: The tens of thousands who have to flee the flames of a California wildfire. The generation that loses its livelihood after a lake dries up in Bolivia.