Bank of Hawaii only isle firm on U.S. most-sustainable list
HONOLULU — Bank of Hawaii has been ranked fourth among U.S. financial institutions and 40th overall in the 2019 “100 Most Sustainable Companies list,” published Friday by Barron’s magazine.
Bank of Hawaii is the only company in Hawaii to be recognized, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Tuesday.
“It is an honor to be recognized as a Most Sustainable Company in the nation,” Bank of Hawaii chairman, president and CEO Peter Ho said in a statement. “As a company in the Pacific islands, we have a great responsibility to incorporate sustainable practices in everything we do. This acknowledgment is a reflection of the great job our employees are doing — from financing renewable energy projects, reducing paper through our digital transformation effort and increasing the use of photovoltaic solar panels on branches/locations to converting to energy-efficiency features and volunteering for community projects that directly impact the environment.”
To determine the ranking, Barron’s partnered with Calvert Research and Management and analyzed the 1,000 largest publicly held U.S. companies (by stock market value) and scored them on more than 200 key indicators and 28 issues on environmental, social and corporate governance factors. Calvert then sorted the data into five key categories: shareholders, employees, customers, planet and community. The shareholders category included items like board structure and accounting policies; employees: workplace diversity and labor relations; customers: business ethics and product safety; planet: greenhouse-gas emissions; and community: community engagement and human rights along the supply chain.
Wooley joins AARP Hawaii as director of advocacy
Jessica Wooley, who served in the state House of Representatives from 2008 to 2014 representing Windward Oahu, has been appointed AARP’s new advocacy director.
She had been the CEO of Aina Aloha Consulting, a legal, lobbying and advocacy firm since 2016. She is also a former director of the state Office of Environmental Quality Control and before her election was a deputy attorney general and worked as an attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii.
In her new role, Wooley will advocate at the county, state and federal level for legislation to improve the lives of people 50 and older.
Wooley received an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a master’s degree in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.