Rafael Nunez Aponte: Timberland’s Corporate Social Responsibility in Every Aspect

Timberland's 2013 CSR Report Highlights Continued Environmental, Community Impacts

As many companies and brands we have shown before, Timberland has a great variety of activities and actions taken in order to benefit society and environment. All that can be verified in their different areas of responsible work: services, products, factories and climate. See more below.

Timberland’s commitment to sustainability was born nearly 40 years ago, and it continues today with the same effort, but with new and more initiatives and ideas. This is a core belief that business can create positive impact in the world.

Products and commitment:

Timberland's work in Haiti

According to Emily Alati, director of materials development for Timberland, the company tries to put the most environmentally responsible materials possible during the creation of their products. They have created material options to substitute for virgin raw materials where possible to meet this goal.

Factories and workers:

As part of Timberland’s Sustainable Living Environment (SLE) program, the supplier sustainability team of Timberland use important periods of time in interacting and giving prominence to factory workers and managers to understand if they are able to meet basic needs and if factory employment is helping to improve their lives.

Service:

Timberland's volunteerism

Engaging Communities. Once a modest family business, Timberland has grown into an important big company; and they owe a lot of success to the people and places around the world where they set up a shop. That is why engaging citizens, employees, and consumers through community service have always been a priority for this company.

Three Celebrities with Social Commitment

Not only companies or brands have the possibility of doing something good for the communities, animals, the Planet, etc. Charity campaigns are also in the hands of some of the most known celebrities. Here are 3 charities or foundations created or cofounded by celebrities, both big-name superstars and young entertainers paving their own way. You can also feel free to share any nonprofit organizations you personally like supporting!

Leonardo Dicaprio

Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation – Leonardo Dicaprio

This organization is dedicated to protect Earth’s last wild places and fostering a harmonious relationship between the people and the nature. Since 1998, the Foundation has been working on pressing environmental and humanitarian issues through grant making, campaigning and media projects. They focus on wildlife and habitat preservation, healthy oceans, water access, climate change, among others.

Born This Way Foundation

Born This Way Foundation – Cofounder Lady Gaga with Cynthia Germanotta

Leaded by Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta, the Foundation was founded in 2011 to encourage a more accepting society, where differences are always welcome and individuality can be celebrated. The Foundation is dedicated to create a safe community that helps connect young people with their skills. All this with the aim of giving opportunities they need to build a kinder, braver world.

The ONE Campaign – Cofounded by Bono

ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organization that counts with more than 3 million people taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, since the facts show extreme poverty has already been cut in half and can be virtually eliminated by 2030, but only if the society acts with urgency now.

Rafael Eladio Nunez Aponte: Basic Approaches of Toyota for a Green World

Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In March 2014 the multinational corporation consisted of 338,875 employees worldwide.

A Green Planet

Since its foundation, Toyota has been using its Guiding Principles to produce reliable vehicles and sustainable development of society by employing innovative and high quality products and services.

The Sixth Toyota Environmental Action Plan

Toyota

In formulating the plan, Toyota categorized the environmental activities according to the three priority themes of the Fifth Plan:This plan includes the activities to be implemented in FY2016–2020 in order to meet the six challenges in the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 are outlined in the Sixth Toyota Environmental Action Plan.

• Contribution to a low-carbon society,
• contribution to a recycling-based society,
• and environmental protection and contribution to a harmony with nature society.

Basic Approach to a Low Carbon Society

Improvement of the society

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest Fifth Assessment Report in installments between September 2013 and April 2014, covering scientific assessments, climate change-related impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, and measures to mitigate climate change.

Toyota is taking action to reduce further global warming as a top priority management issue, and is working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at all stages of the vehicle lifecycle, including development, design, production, logistics, and sales, as well as in all of Toyota’s business areas.