ESG News from Leading Brands

Health & Healthcare

Leaky Roofs Matter: A Powerful Metaphor for Human Services Organizations to Remember

Feb 29, 2016 2:50 PM ET

Keystone Institute India, their partners, and other like-minded organizations are exploring the components of supporting people with disabilities to live full lives in the community in India. "Leaky Roofs Matter" is a powerful metaphor for the importance of addressing people's most pressing need first.

Environment

Making Supply Chain Sustainability in the Chemical Industry More Efficient

Feb 29, 2016 2:45 PM ET

Companies participating in the UN Global Compact often point to their supply chains as one of the most challenging areas to improve their sustainability performance. This makes sense. For multinational corporations operating in multiple industries, supply chains aren’t chains at all. They’re webs --- vast, complex, and frequently shifting networks upon which the company relies to power its business. Despite the challenges, the supply chain cannot be ignored in any mature, well-integrated corporate sustainability strategy. In fact, the purchasing power of a company can significantly amplify any environmental and social change it might drive in its own operations. The trick for a successful sustainability supply chain strategy is efficiency, prioritization, and balance.

Environment

Student Teams Honoured for Tackling Environmental Issues in the 2016 Scotiabank EcoLiving Green Challenge

Feb 29, 2016 2:30 PM ET

Events, Media & Communications

3BL Media Webinar to Focus on Innovation for Sustainable Development: The Role of Private Sector Collaboration

Feb 29, 2016 1:45 PM ET

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can only be realized with a strong commitment to global partnership and cooperation.

Diversity & Inclusion

Practitioner Spotlight--BobbiAnn Murphy

Feb 29, 2016 1:15 PM ET

Let's take a look at some of Antea Group's most valuable resources--its people! Next up is transaction support practitioner BobbiAnn Murphy, who talks to us about her greatest professional achievements, her ingredients for success, and the fictional character she'd most like to work with.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Living a Sustainable Life While on Vacation

Feb 29, 2016 12:45 PM ET

Enterprise Car Rental in the Orlando International Airport doubled the amount of its Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric vehicles last fall, for a total of 30 available to rent.

Events, Media & Communications

Detailed Agenda Released for 15th Annual Charities@Work Best Practices Summit Featuring “Next Great Ideas,” Recent Innovation in Employee Engagement and CSR

Feb 29, 2016 12:00 PM ET

Charities@Work—a network of organizations that bridges the corporate and nonprofit sectors in order to achieve greater social impact—today announced details of its full program for the 15th Annual Best Practices Summit on Employee Engagement in Corporate Citizenship, “Bridging Worlds to Scale Impact.”

Events, Media & Communications

Controlling What Happens: Legal Documents and Your Health

Feb 29, 2016 12:00 PM ET

This April, the largest gathering of the young adult cancer movement will take place in Denver, Colorado. CancerCon will bring together hundreds of survivors, caretakers, and industry professionals for three days of events, speakers, and socializing.

Health & Healthcare

Rare Diseases Are Not That Rare

Feb 29, 2016 12:00 PM ET

People affected by rare diseases often face extraordinary barriers. They can find it difficult to get the right diagnosis, expert advice or treatment and support. It’s challenging – especially when they are trying to cope with the uncertainty of an often progressive, devastating and debilitating disease. But the complexity of these conditions, and the small number of patients affected, means this area of research doesn’t always attract the greatest interest.

Health & Healthcare

How 15 Minutes Can Change a Life

Feb 29, 2016 11:05 AM ET

As someone who has been donating blood since 1976, I’m always excited to celebrate National Heart Month in February. It’s important to remember how we can do our part to help keep hearts beating around the world. Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. will need blood. And, one pint of blood donated can save up to three lives.

Health & Healthcare

10 Years Commitment to Fighting Childhood Cancer for the Sanofi Espoir Foundation

Feb 29, 2016 11:05 AM ET

Childhood Cancer is one of the main cause of death for the children, every year 175,000 children are confronted with cancer. The five-year survival rate of children with cancer varies from 10 to 80% depending on the level of resources available in their country. Yet, there are effective therapeutic solutions for the majority of these cancers, if the diagnosis is made early and if the child is correctly taken into care.

Innovation & Technology

KeyBank Provides $12 Million for Workforce and Affordable Housing Development in Niagara Falls, New York

Feb 29, 2016 11:00 AM ET

Today, KeyBank announced it will provide a total of $12 million in capital to help develop the Niagara City Lofts in Niagara Falls, New York. The adaptive reuse project will convert an existing, abandoned public school, built in 1923 and vacant since 1986, into 61 units of workforce housing, affordable housing, market rate apartments, and a new commercial community space. The building has been submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for designation as a historic building.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Responsible Index Investing: Reimagining How to Access Returns

Feb 29, 2016 10:30 AM ET

Social Impact & Volunteering

Alliance Data Associates Help Pick Up the Rubble for North Texas Tornado Victims

Feb 29, 2016 10:30 AM ET

The day after Christmas, a tornado three and a half miles wide tore through neighborhoods in North Texas, damaging or destroying 1,110 homes and 35 businesses. More than 40 volunteers from Alliance Data's Plano office spent two mornings the past month clearing the rubble in one of the hardest hit neighborhoods.

Environment

Sustainable Resolution Tip #5: Manage your Waste & Waist

Feb 29, 2016 10:20 AM ET

It isn’t New Year’s without resolving to work out more and eat healthier. Planning your meals in advance can help you control calories and cut food waste. In your planning, perhaps you’ll think about using what’s in your pantry, buying only what you need, and repurposing leftover. Just a few years ago, Americans threw out over 74 billion pounds of food. Careful meal planning can help you save calories and our ‪#‎blueplanet.‪#‎SustainableResolutions

Environment

Ray C. Anderson Foundation is New Sponsor for “Talk with Green Guy” Show

Feb 29, 2016 10:00 AM ET

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation is the new sponsor of “Talk with Green Guy,” a rapidly growing weekly show hosted by Eric Moncrief on WGST 640 AM, which airs locally Sunday mornings at 9:00 a.m. Eastern with podcasts available at www.greenguymedia.com.

Environment

Big Cat Week in Europe: How a Sculpture, a Hashtag and Selfies Are Helping Nat Geo Save Big Cats Around the World

Feb 29, 2016 10:00 AM ET

Nat Geo Wild Europe launched its sixth annual Big Cat Week in February. Each year, Nat Geo Wild sheds light on the plight of big cats around the world with a week of premieres. More than a television event, Big Cat Week is an extension of the Big Cats Initiative (BCI), a long-term commitment by the National Geographic Society to stop poaching, save habitat and sound the call that big steps are needed to save big cats around the world. This global initiative actively supports on-the-ground conservation projects and education to help stem and eventually reverse the rapid disappearance of big-cat populations.

Research, Reports & Publications

Is Waste a Resource in the Wrong Place?

Feb 29, 2016 10:00 AM ET

Waste production is a serious problem for all American companies and industries. The largest 5,589 publically traded businesses in the United States sent 342 million metric tons of waste to landfills and incinerators in 2014. That is the equivalent of sending the weight of three Empire State Buildings to a landfill every day.

Environment

No, Coffee Pods Aren't Killing the Planet

Feb 29, 2016 10:00 AM ET

Drowsy German bureaucrats in Hamburg will soon have one less option for a mid-afternoon caffeine jolt, after the city banned single-serve coffee machines such as Nespresso from government buildings.

Environment

Equity and the Living Building Challenge

Feb 29, 2016 9:00 AM ET

An essential part of building living communities isn’t just designing housing units with a low environmental impact, but making those housing units affordable for the communities they’re in.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

HP Instant Ink Named as Intelligent Asset in Report from World Economic Forum & Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Feb 29, 2016 8:20 AM ET

Events, Media & Communications

Harry Pastuszek of PYXERA Global to Speak at Responsible Business Summit

Feb 29, 2016 4:00 AM ET

Harry Pastuszek, Vice President of Enterprise and Community Development at PYXERA Global will speak at the 2016 Responsible Business Summit this June 7 and 8.For an advanced look at the Summit, Ethical Corporation is hosting a free live webinar with Timberland’s Sustainability Director and Maersk's Head of Responsible Procurement. Tune in Tuesday, March 1 at 10 am ET / 3 pm GMT.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

The PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. Is Giving $1.2 Million to the Easter Seals Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services to Support Military Transition Assistance Programming

Feb 28, 2016 7:05 PM ET

The PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. is giving $1.2 million to the Easter Seals Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services to support military transition assistance programming.

Innovation & Technology

PwC Oscars Purpose Red Carpet

Feb 28, 2016 6:20 PM ET

PwC is adding a unique spin to the red carpet this year. We'll ask social entrepreneurs, educators, fashion designers and professional sports players not about what or who they are wearing, but about their purpose.

Education

Women Building Futures Partners with Transcanada to Attract More Women into the Construction Trades

Feb 27, 2016 10:30 AM ET

Women Building Futures partners with TransCanada to attract more women into the construction trades. TransCanada joins CLAC and Mammoet Canada Western as sponsors of the WBF Opportunities for Women in Construction Awareness Campaign (OFWIC).