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A few months ago, WWF published a HP-supported white paper called ‘From Green IT to Greening with IT’. The paper is directed mainly at policy makers and aims to explore the role of IT in business and government strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It particularly looks...
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For the third consecutive year, our blog is participating in the Blog Action Day . The idea of the Blog Action Day is to encourage bloggers all over the world to post an entry on the same topic on the same day to raise awareness. The motto is: One day. One issue. Thousands of voices. After last year’s...
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Newsweek have just published their new Green Ranking list of the biggest companies in the U.S. I was very pleased to see that HP ranked #1 . As Daniel McGinn points out in his article, such rankings can be quite controversial. Not all companies report on their environmental performance. Either that or...
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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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Allow me to point you to a recent HP video profile story produced by ZDNet. The video summarises our green practices and technologies and includes interviews with Bonnie Nixon, our Director of Environmental Sustainability and Brian Brouillette, our Vice President of Solutions Infrastructure. The video...
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I have exciting news: our new Global Citizenship Report is now available and you can read it online. Within the report, you will find lots of information about our 2008 achievements in the areas of ethics and compliance; human rights and labour practices; environmental sustainability; and privacy and...
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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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At the end of last week I attended the European Academy in Society ( EABIS ) Annual Colloquium at Cranfield University where HP and Ashridge Business School jointly launched the Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award . The Award is an essay competition aimed at MBA and other postgraduate students across...
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Since Junior Achievement (JA) was started nearly 90 years ago student competitions have been core to the JA experience. They have provided hundreds of thousands of students the opportunity to deepen their JA classroom experience, test their skills and knowledge, measure themselves against others, get...
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My name is Catherine Martial and I am in charge of Direct Take Back activities (ie activities where HP is directly involved in the collection of used IT equipment) and the implementation of the EU WEEE directive at HP France. I would like to tell you about our latest recycling event which is also a best...
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As part of the European Commission campaign “ Sustainable Energy Europe ” the European Commission published a video on how to save the climate with your computer . Let me summarize the content of the video, particularly the parts in which HP played a role. Almost half of all households in Europe have...
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I joined HP in 1998 and I am the global program manager for supply chain energy: directing programs to create transparency of energy use in the supply chain and to work with our suppliers to reduce the overall carbon footprint. I am part of the Global Social and Environmental Responsibility (SER) Operations...