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Cox Conserves

For more than a decade, our sustainability program has been instrumental in driving meaningful progress toward environmental change. With $165 million invested in more than 500 sustainability and conservation projects, we’re good stewards of our planet by inspiring positive change.

Driving positive environmental change — inside our company and within the communities we serve — is one of the most important things we do.

Volunteers from Cox working on water clean up
View of beautifully landscaped campus with lots of greenery, seating, and pond water feature

Cox Conserves, our national sustainability program, was launched in 2007 by Jim Kennedy, chairman emeritus and chairman of the James M. Cox Foundation. Since then, we’ve made meaningful progress in our journey to become a more sustainable company through our operations, partnerships and grants to nonprofits.

Focus areas

Cox Conserves’ primary focus areas include energy conservation; water conservation; waste diversion and recycling; protecting and restoring land; and community engagement.

Cox Conserves goals

Our ambition is to be good stewards of the planet by inspiring positive environmental change. Recognizing the interconnectedness of water scarcity, waste, biodiversity loss and climate change, we are prioritizing these four areas to turn our ambition into measurable action.

Table reviewing the long-term ambition (2025) and targets to get there (2024) for carbon and climate, water, circularity and waste, and habitat and species focus areas.

How we do it

The path to reaching these goals begins with the simple philosophy that actions, not words, define our success. We are committed to measuring our performance in order to continuously improve the management and impact of environmental practices

See our progress in protecting the planet
Cox employee placing items in recycling containers