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Take a Bow:
Corporate America
Makes Healthy Choices
By Annette Racond,
Staff Writer
world a better place for you – and for
future generations.
Companies nationwide are dispelling a common perception that
corporate America is driven by greed
and corruption. Many people have
come to believe that the “big players” don’t have a soft side and have
no interest in doing right by mankind
or the environment. Of course, there
may be some truth to this notion in
some instances, but the tide is turning
thanks to progressive companies like
Lexington-based Alltech, Louisvillebased Yum! and Long John Silver’s.
There has been considerable press
noting how companies like Google,
Apple, and Microsoft are leading the
pack on the corporate social responsibility front. Google has built an awesome green transportation system featuring biodiesel shuttles and the largest
corporate electric-vehicle charging
system nationwide. The company’s
on-campus, car-sharing program
includes the next generation of plug-in
vehicles. What’s more, Google rewards
self-powered commuters by donating
to their favorite charities based on how
often they bike or walk to work. My
guess is employees are putting in some
healthy mileage. Whenever possible,
the company relies on local, organic,
and sustainable food from farms and
fisheries within 200 miles of respective
offices. Don’t you wish you were on
the Google payroll?
On that note, we’re pleased to
report that Kentucky is making its own
splash with impressive, meaningful,
and green initiatives. Here are just a
few of the projects that local companies have launched to help make the
On a Winning Streak
Louisville, KY-based YUM!
Corporate Responsibility magazine
has named Yum! one of this year’s top
public companies for its commitment
to corporate social responsibility. Yum!
operates more than 40,000 restaurants
- KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell - in
128 countries. Those are some busy
kitchens! Better yet, Yum! is the only
restaurant company on the magazine’s
Corporate Responsibility 100 list.
Under the direction of its Chief
Sustainability Officer, the Global
Sustainability team is actively working to deliver on the corporation’s
global enterprise-wide goals for sustainability. These respectable goals
include designing and building new
company-owned restaurants to be
LEED certifiable by 2015; reducing
energy consumption in companyowned restaurants 15 percent by 2015;
reducing water consumption in company-owned restaurants 10 percent
by 2015; implementing supplier environmental audits by 2015; purchasing
paper-based packaging with fiber
from responsibly managed forest and
recycled sources; and working towards
implementing waste recovery projects
to reduce, recycle, and reuse waste in
company-owned restaurants.
What a Relief!
Lexington, KY-based Alltech
Lexington-based Alltech, which
helps farmers feed the world, raise
healthy animals, and protect the environment through nutritional innova-
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team that Haiti needed more than just
disaster relief. They needed sustainable economic growth, jobs, agriculture, and education. The Alltech
Sustainable Haiti Project began in
Ouanaminthe, Haiti with the goal of
helping to build a sustainable future
in one small part of Haiti. Alltech’s
efforts focused on education by working to improve and upgrade schools,
strengthen local Haitian enterprises by
launching a Haitian coffee and Haitian
rhum, and leading various economic
development projects throughout the
country.
The company also recently hosted
the 30th Annual Alltech International
Symposium in Lexington to allow
business people, farmers, technology gurus, marketing professionals,
entrepreneurs, journalists, and government officials, along with food and
feed industry experts to mingle and
exchange ideas.
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