Sentences with phrase «environmental commitment grew»

Starting with a focus on food and agriculture, the company's environmental commitment grew into a larger business model that encompasses Five Aspirations, or bottom lines: Sustaining Business, Brands, People, Community and the Planet.

Not exact matches

The 2015 Nielson Global Sustainability Report found that retail brands with a commitment to sustainability, environmental concerns and social responsibility experienced 4 - percent growth, while companies that did not grew only 1 percent.

Highlights of these 2025 goals include McCormick's commitments to: — Source 100 percent of branded iconic ingredients sustainably; — Improve the livelihoods of 90 percent of smallholder farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; — Champion equality for women and people of color in leadership, and empower women farmers across the company's supply chain; and — Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering its carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

But the changes — heavy traffic, loss of nearby stockyards, smog and dust from drilling, growing waste ponds and pits and the pressures on the schools from temporary worker families — have strengthened their environmental commitment.

The findings, published this week in the journal Environmental Research Letters, are the first to quantify how quickly this global commitment to climate pollution is growing.

Not only do they lead the industry in environmental stewardship and commitment to organic agriculture, MRH also adheres to strict principles and protocols that ensure fair treatment and compensation for the workers and the farmers who grow their herbs.

«The new marketing campaign for the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell is the next step in our effort to advance fuel cell vehicles to the mainstream market,» said Steve Center, vice president of the Environmental Business Development Office at American Honda Motor Co., Inc. «This fully integrated marketing campaign also demonstrates our commitment to growing electrified vehicles into a volume pillar for the Honda brand.»

Over the past three years, the EPA's corporate partners have increased their voluntary green power commitments by more than 30 percent, while the list of Fortune 500 members grew by 20 percent, totaling 61 companies that buy more than 7 billion kilowatt - hours (kWh) of green power, the equivalent environmental impact of avoiding the annual carbon - dioxide emissions from electricity use of nearly 644,000 average American homes.

The report, «Taking on Big Challenges,» details the progress of Ecomagination (first covered here, with subsequent updates about cheap hydrogen production and nuclear power), GE's commitment to imagine and build innovative technologies that help customers address their environmental and financial needs and help GE grow, and it appears to be a success on all fronts.

With the organic pizza chain's announcement in August that new properties would meet the Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) certification standards, the company joined the growing ranks of firms making big environmental commitments where their real estate operations are concerned.