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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 place went to Jonathan Alexander from the University...
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Around this time of the year, many companies are looking for the by now famous CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) report. And the 2009 report is on-line. But that's not the only information available. For the first time CDP has also issued their first Supply Chain Report with as subtitle: "Managing...
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On Monday, Newsweek released their inaugural Green Rankings , and interestingly, HP finished at the top. In an article, titled " The Greenest Big Companies in America " they explain they decided to publicize this list to recognize the efforts of companies, and how they ranked companies in industries...
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Filed under: Experience, Green, Carbon, Carbon Footprint, Sustainability, CO2, DFE, Environment, Innovation, Carbon offsets, Award
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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 report . The study is based on a questionnaire...
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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 energy, green transport and energy-efficient...
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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, CSR Stakeholder Programmes, HP EMEA
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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 off at the end of the day.* So, even if you already...
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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 a real wealth of information from different HP businesses...
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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 examples, Ellen Fanning, author, shows how it...
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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 Pamlin, Global Policy Advisor at WWF, says that...
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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-version. Click here for our Global Citizenship Report...
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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 of a company and that sustainability is embedded...
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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 curious to find out which different size companies...
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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 in the Information and Communications Technology...
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A couple days ago I received a quick note from one of my colleagues concerning an activity initiated by the UK government, the " Greening Government ICT: Efficient, Sustainable, Responsible ". In this initiative, they aim at making energy consumption of their ICT systems carbon neutral by 2010...