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Winners of 2009 Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award announced

You might have seen my earlier blog entries about our support for the Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award and the video produced by WWF to support the award. Today, I am pleased to share with you the names of the winners of the essay competition! First...

Published 11-04-2009 3:41 PM by ulrikehaug

Filed under: social investment, CSR, Sustainability, Ashridge sustainable innovation award

Sustainable procurement: 80 % of respondents invest and the trend is increasing

As one of HP’s supply chain auditors, I always look for news and best practices relating to responsible supply chain management and procurement. This summer HEC Paris and EcoVadis published an interesting study: The Sustainable Procurement Benchmark...

Published 09-17-2009 10:24 AM by vp9a83272

Filed under: supply chain, Sustainability, HEC Paris, procurement, EcoVadis

New WWF study: Go where the jobs are. Go green

In economic hard times reports about layoffs and wage-cutting dominate the news agenda. A new WWF study, however, provides much more positive news and shows real opportunities. The report actually discusses how ’green industries’ such as renewable...

Published 07-16-2009 5:42 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: environment, Sustainability, WWF, Green IT, CO2

Video about HP’s power to change campaign

For those of you interested in HP’s power to change campaign , here is a video that illustrates the main essence of our Power to Change campaign. Thought you might enjoy this. We definitely need more ‘Dougs’ in the office! Ulrike Haug...

Published 07-07-2009 5:47 PM by ulrikehaug

Filed under: environment, Sustainability, energy efficiency, power to change

Turn off idle computers and join HP’s Power to Change campaign

HP has just launched a campaign called Power To Change which encourages users to turn off computers when they’re not in use. Not a big deal, you think? I was surprised to read that, in the US alone, only 36 per cent of business computers are turned...

Published 06-12-2009 8:21 AM by ulrikehaug

Filed under: environment, Sustainability, energy efficiency, Green IT, power to change

HP announces company-wide environment goals and additions to Eco-Solutions programme

I just briefly wanted to highlight an announcement that HP released today. It provides news from across the company, highlighting new environmental goals as well as new products and services in the HP Eco Solutions programme. The announcement includes...

Published 06-03-2009 5:18 PM by ulrikehaug

Filed under: environment, CSR, Sustainability, energy efficiency, Eco-Solutions

Computerweek showcases Top Green IT users and vendors

Being green has been top of the agenda for some time now and it is here to stay. Computerworld magazine recently published its annual list of Top Green IT Organisations . The article honours Top Green IT Users as well as Top Green IT vendors. Citing many...

Published 05-22-2009 3:49 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: environment, Sustainability, energy efficiency, Green IT

WWF movie on Sustainable Innovation supports Ashridge Award

WWF has just published a great video to support the Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award . The video aims get students participating in the essay award to think differently about satisfying our needs in tomorrow’s low-carbon economy. In his blog , Dennis...

Published 03-23-2009 5:06 PM by ulrikehaug

Filed under: Sustainability, climate change, WWF, Award, Innovation

CSR reports and their content

At the beginning of this month a study about CSR reports caught my attention, most especially because we are currently in the final stages of finalising our Global Citizenship Report. This will be launched on March 31 both online and in a condensed PDF...

Published 03-13-2009 3:46 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: CSR, Sustainability, report

SAP goes green

I have just seen a pretty exciting announcement from SAP , saying that they have recently hired a Chief Sustainability Officer to strengthen their green company strategy. Of course it is essential that a sustainability strategy is supported from the top...

Published 03-12-2009 7:00 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: environment, CSR, Sustainability, green

JustMeans and the Financial Times announce The Social Innovation Award Winners

Last week JustMeans and the Financial Times announced the winners of The Social Innovation Award , which was sponsored by HP. I was very excited to hear about HP sponsoring this award. When I first heard about it from my colleagues in the U.S., I was...

Published 03-09-2009 7:29 PM by ulrikehaug

Filed under: CSR, Sustainability, Awards

Join a live webcast with WWF and Gartner on Low Carbon and Environmental Sustainability Leadership

I would like to provide you with details of an up-and-coming live webcast with Dennis Pamlin of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Simon Mingay of Gartner Research. They will be discussing the results of research on Low Carbon and Environmental Sustainability...

Published 02-19-2009 5:00 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: environment, Sustainability, energy efficiency, WWF, carbon footprint

Climate Futures report – scenarios for a climate-changed world

Last week, HP Labs and Forum for the Future, a renowned UK-based sustainable development organisation, announced a report called ‘Climate Futures’ . Unlike many other reports on climate change that we’ve seen recently, this report doesn’t focus on narrowly...

Published 10-20-2008 3:41 PM by ulrikehaug

Filed under: Sustainability, climate change, global warming, Future

Sustainable from bottom up

There are many best practices out there which demonstrate that company activities are most successful if they are actively supported by its employees. This is definitely true for HP´s sustainability employee networks at 20 major HP sites around the world...

Published 07-17-2008 9:29 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: environment, Sustainability

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