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...
I just came across a video by WWF called 'Let the clean economy begin'. It talks about the business opportunities that arise for companies that strive to be leaders in a low carbon economy. They also highlight the companies that have joined ‘Climate Savers’ , a programme by WWF that...
Travelling in the Metro today made me notice how many Parisians read books—rather than newspapers—on their way to work. Ballpark calculation: there were probably five books for every three newspapers in the train carriage. Quite the opposite from London, where the majority of commuters lose...
What has black cardboard on the inside, a silver foil-covered outer box and can boil 10 litres of water in two hours, using only the sun’s rays? Right, it’s a solar cooker and a special one at that. The Kyoto Box solar cooker by John Brohmer won the Climate Change Challenge which was sponsored by HP...
I just have seen the most recent announcement made by the European Commission to power up a green IT strategy in Europe. At HP, we have already been working on offering climate smart solutions for our customers. In 2008, together with WWF, we published a customer report to demonstrate how 1 billion tonnes...
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...
Climate change has been dominating the news for a long time now and it has to stay on the agenda for longer as an Allianz-commissioned WWF report illustrates: The report analyses the progress made by G8 countries in combating climate change and reducing CO2 emissions. The conclusion is quite sobering...
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...