posted by Dave Stangis on October 30, 2007
Companies get involved in a lot of CSR efforts. Some seem to get an unfair amount of attention and others go on almost invisibly. I’m sure that’s the case for many companies – but there is one event that Intel has been involved with now for 7 years that is truly inspiring. Most “award” programs under-shoot my expectations by a large margin, but the laureates celebrated at the Tech Museum Awards each November, never cease to amaze me.
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tagged: Accenture, Applied Materials, CSR, environment, Microsoft, SanDisk, Swanson Foundation, Tech Awards, Tech Museum, triple-bottom-line
posted by Perry Gruber on October 26, 2007
While wildfires raging in California riveted attention spans this week, a small, fortunately-timed Intel technology donation is quietly, and quite unexpectedly, doing its part to help emergency and humanitarian response teams save lives and property.
Now, I don’ t want to make our contribution sound any bigger than it actually is. After all, we made the donation with other purposes in mind. But according to one intensely thankful Eric Frost, Director of San Diego State University’s Visualization Center (Viz Center), Intel’s contribution is making a difference. In Frost’s words: “Without [the donation], we would have been really struggling generally. The reality of having machines like this is really impressive. The speed and capability these machines deliver to immediately respond and integrate [information] so well is so important.”
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tagged: California, donations, SDSU, wild fires
posted by Dave Stangis on October 25, 2007
I live in Arizona. I’ve been here for more than 14 years – and I love it here. Home, on the other hand, will always be Michigan. Detroit, to be more specific. Everybody in Detroit seemed to work in one way or another for the automotive industry. I had relatives at Ford, at auto suppliers, even steel plants. I actually started down this Eco/CSR path at Ford myself. No matter how bleak the industry got with foreign competition and rust-belt headlines day after day, people were proud to live there and work in that industry.
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tagged: 45nm, Chandler, CSR, Fab 32, globalization, Intel, LEED, U.S. Competitiveness
posted by Gary Niekerk on October 24, 2007
I was driving with my wife recently and she got very upset when she saw a car next to us with small children inside who were not locked into their child seats or seat belts. It caused me to reflect on how far we have come with automobile safety and cultural norms on safety; and how this could be an analogy for the sustainability movement.
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tagged: future, model, seatbelts, sustainability
posted by Perry Gruber on October 22, 2007
It’s a matter of perspective if you ask me. This question arose two weeks ago at the conference I blogged about earlier. The moderator was asking us paneliststo define the term “Digital Divide.” Of the three of us, the NGO representative did provide a definition, but the two private industry folks (me and my colleague from Microsoft) instead chose to describe our perspectives in terms of “Digital Inclusion.”
Not long ago, when Intel switched from “Divide” to “Inclusion,” I couldn’t help roll my eyes. But, now I see the light….
posted by Perry Gruber on October 18, 2007
Farron Levy, Founder & CEO of True Impact, a consultancy that helps companies measure the social and business value of their operating practices, offered good advice this week about making the business case for CSR. Here’s what he had to say direct from his e-newsletter:
posted by Todd Brady on October 15, 2007
‘Tis the Season
It’s that time of year around Intel - plan time. It’s time to set budgets and priorities for the upcoming year. Although I’d like to say that it brings back fond memories of childhood and Christmas wish lists, the reality is something more akin to finding out mom and dad are Santa Claus and that top of the line bicycle or motorized toy airplane is not quite within budget.
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tagged: Blog Action Day
posted by Perry Gruber on October 12, 2007
Ok, I said I was going to post this yesterday after attending the TCI’s Global Competitiveness Conference, but my schedule didn’t allow me to bang out the thing, so please forgive that I didn’t do what I said I’d do. That said, yesterday’s conference was a lively mix of networking opportunities, idea sharing and some tough questions about addressing the digital divide, or, as we like to call it here at Intel “digital inclusion.” Opinions among my fellow panelists were not as diverse as I first expected ….but on second thought, that shouldn’t have surprised me. By now, the issue is mature enough that we can agree on its constituent parts
In this post I’m going to go on about the interesting guys I had the pleasure of serving with during the panel and the lively dialogue we shared with those who attended.
posted by Revital Bitan on October 11, 2007
The Blog Action Day is a praiseworthy voluntary blogospheric effort, designated to draw the attention of the world for one day to one important subject – the environment.
During this web event, which will take place on October 15th, thousands of bloggers from all around the world will publish a blog post dedicated to an environmental Issue and create a discussion “towards a better future” as the organizers hope.
We have decided to actively join this important initiative. Please join too.
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tagged: Blog Action Day
posted by Perry Gruber on October 10, 2007
This week (tomorrow in fact) I’ll be participating in a talk-show formatted panel discussion with an old friend, Rey Ramsey. I met Rey in his second year of founding the hugely successful One Economy Corporation, a U.S. based NGO that has grown from four people working in a basement, to more than 40 people operating internationally, in just seven years. In addition to its phenomenal growth, the organization has been equally successful innovating new and creative ways to use ICT to combat the digital divide.
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tagged: CSR, digital divide, digital inclusion, one economy, World Ahead
posted by Dave Stangis on October 06, 2007
I’m writing this somewhere over the Pacific on my way home from a VERY short trip to Sydney, Australia. It took me 40 years to actually get to Australia for the first time, but now, I’ve been there twice in the last 2 years as the country and its companies have taken a very active approach to CSR and Sustainability.
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tagged: Australia, Boardroom, Clusters, CSR, Portland, sustainability, Sydney
posted by Perry Gruber on October 02, 2007
For readers not from the U.S., COPS is on the opposite end of spectrum from, let’s say, Masterpiece Theater - it’s not the most educational bit of TV out there. But I digress…
There was an elderly woman in Miami who, driving her white Brougham Cadillac, hit a young woman who had stopped in the street to pick up a shoe she had dropped (you couldn’t dream up a better TV!). The elderly woman - probably in reaction to mowing down a fellow human being - fled the scene, leaving the young woman suffering from what EMTs described as “some major injuries…”
posted by Revital Bitan on October 01, 2007
Last week I participated in a CSR Europe Laboratory. The idea behind these labs is to bring together business people, stakeholders, and representatives of the European Union to share experiences and explore joint operational projects. The laboratory I participated in deals with Mainstreaming Diversity. Led by L’Oréal Paris, its aim is to facilitate the sharing of best practices amongst companies with regard to diversity challenges. Upon completion, policy recommendations will be submitted to the EU. The meeting focused on work life balance. Around 10 companies participated and shared their best case studies pertaining to this topic. I presented them the various Work Life Balance programs Intel offers its employees around the world.
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tagged: CSR, CSR Europe Laboratory, telecommuting, work life balance
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