Results tagged “sustainability”
CONVERGENCE is 100% in Portland
posted by Lorie Wigle on November 20, 2009 at CSR@Intel
All the buzz about energy and climate makes for an interesting backdrop to the SuperComputing ‘09 conference that has converged on soggy Portland this week. Globally, according to Gartner, information and communications technologies are responsible for ~2% of global CO2...
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tagged: eco-technology, environment, green, HPC, Justin Rattner, SC09, SuperComputing, sustainability
Blog action day - the new opportunity for Intel in addressing climate change
posted by Suzanne Fallender on October 15, 2009 at CSR@Intel
Addressing climate change is not something new for us. But how we are now looking at the issue is. As a company, Intel has taken steps to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of our operations for many years now....
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tagged: #BAD09, #csr, #sustainability, Carbon Disclosure Project, carbon footprint, climate change, DESC, eco-technology, energy efficient performance, environment, Intel, smart2020
What does CSR success look like? Check out Intel's IT department...
posted by Suzanne Fallender on October 13, 2009 at CSR@Intel
Here’s a great example of what I mean when I talk about successes in Intel’s ongoing strategy to “embed CSR more deeply into the business.” Over the past year, Intel’s IT departmentr has embraced and taken ownership of driving sustainability...
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tagged: #csr, #sustainability, embedding CSR, intel_it, it_sustainability, mike breton
Sustainability and teen angst?
posted by Suzanne Fallender on October 07, 2009 at CSR@Intel
Dr. Sharon Nunes from IBM, opened her remarks on her panel at yesterday’s annual summit of the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF) in NYC, noting that in her career as an engineer, she rarely finds herself in a...
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tagged: #csr, #sustainability, #wnsfny09, DuPoint, IBM, Intel, Pfizer, Suzanne Fallender, TIAA-CREF, Walmart, WNSF
$100 million invested. 34 billion gallons saved. What's next?
posted by Suzanne Fallender on September 14, 2009 at CSR@Intel
Conserving natural resources - including water - is something that we’ve focused on Intel at for many years now. While we’ve achieved significant savings in water through investments in conservation activities over the past decade, we know we need to...
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tagged: #CSR, Intel, Manufacturing Business Technology, Roberto Michel, sustainability, water conservation
The sustainable company you keep
posted by Suzanne Fallender on September 04, 2009 at CSR@Intel
I used to be involved in rating companies on their corporate responsibility and sustainability performance for a living. Now I am one of the rated. Luckily, I’m at a company that gets rated very well across most of the major...
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tagged: #csr, #sustainability, DESC, DJSI, Dow Jones, EICC, fallender, sustainability indexes
No Intel Executives Were Harmed in the Making of this Video
posted by Suzanne Fallender on August 10, 2009 at CSR@Intel
One of the topics that keeps coming up in discussions with my counterparts in corporate responsibility departments at other companies is employee engagement around CSR and sustainability. As corporate responsibility matures within major global brands, one of the next big...
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tagged: #CSR, employee engagement, Intel, sustainability, Will Swope
How do you say "what can we make possible?" in Hebrew?
posted by Suzanne Fallender on July 07, 2009 at CSR@Intel
Many people continue to criticize CSR reports for being too long, detailed and boring for most stakeholders to read. When you combine that sentiment with the challenges of explaining your corporate responsibility performance in multiple languages and cultures and your...
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tagged: CSR Reporting, Intel, Israel, justmeans.com, localization, sustainability
Women Driving Change in Clean Tech
posted by Suzanne Fallender on May 22, 2009 at CSR@Intel
Yesterday, Intel hosted the first west coast summit of the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future at our offices in Santa Clara. The day brought together a mix of women (and a few brave men) from across the spectrum of...
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tagged: Clean Tech, Greenbiz, HP, Intel, sustainability, SVB Financial, The Climate Group, Triple Pundit, UPS, WNSF, Women's Network for a Sustainable Future
What can we make possible?
posted by Michael Jacobson on May 20, 2009 at CSR@Intel
Although I am now just two weeks into my new role as Intel’s Director of Corporate Responsibility, the topic of corporate responsibility is not something new to me. For over twelve years, I have had the privilege of managing Intel’s...
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tagged: citizenship, Corporate Responsibility Report, CSR, G3, Green Power, Intel, Intel Foundation, Intel Teach, sustainability, Volunteerism
Can sustainability, green or CSR survive a recession? Take 2
posted by Manisha P Shah on March 26, 2009 at CSR@Intel
The bad news…since Dave Stangis, former Director of CSR at Intel, posed this question almost a year ago, the economic environment has become much worse. The good news… Dave’s premise then was that CSR, Sustainability and Green aren’t supplements to...
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tagged: CSR, Green, Recession, Sustainability
Days Two and Three at Davos
posted by Will Swope on January 30, 2009 at CSR@Intel
Day Two (Thursday) - What a day. Bright sunlight. No wind. So, I made the right decision and concluded that anyone who didn’t go skiing yesterday doesn’t have a life. It was fantastic. Davos has the reputation for this sport...
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tagged: sustainability, WEF, World Economic Forum
My Biggest Disappointment at CES, Yet Again, Came in 500ml Packages
posted by Daniel Snyder on January 16, 2009 at CSR@Intel
And now ladies and gentlemen, something completely different from the self-congratulatory, back-slapping, post-CES euphoria flooding the airwaves. Oh yes, there was amazing technology, amazing innovation and a sense of hubris in light of the economy and hard times all...
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tagged: CES 2008, classmate pc, Core i7, green, Intel, sustainability
What does climate change have to do with corporate governance?
posted by Suzanne Fallender on December 11, 2008 at CSR@Intel
It used to be that conversations about corporate governance and environmental management happened in separate circles. The governance folks focused their energy on lamenting egregious pay packages and accounting scandals, leaving the more touchy-feely environmental topics to others. But over...
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tagged: CERES, climate change, corporate governance, csr, Intel, RiskMetrics, sustainability
What do cheetahs and technology have in common?
posted by Christine Dotts on November 18, 2008 at CSR@Intel
Did you know that in Namibia, Africa - 25 million acres of land are choked by invasive thorn bushes, which then make agriculture impossible and alter the water cycle thereby threatening life for humans and animals, like the cheetah? And...
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tagged: Arcadia Biosciences, Cheetah Conservation Fund, corporate social responsibility, Craig Barrett, environment, Gordon Moore, Grameen, Muhammad Yunus, Practical Action, San Jose Tech Museum, Sunlabob, sustainability, technology, The Tech Awards, The Tech Museum
Can we have Sustainability without Sacrifice?
posted by Gary Niekerk on November 10, 2008 at CSR@Intel
I attend the annual BSR Conference in NYC last week. It was a very inspiring week and I met a lot of people and had some great conversations. During the night of the election, I walked over to the Rockefeller...
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tagged: BSR Conference, Consumption, CSR, election, GE, sustainability
We're not stopping here: EPA Green Power Leadership and great work
posted by Will Swope on October 28, 2008 at CSR@Intel
Last night Intel was proud to receive the Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We were given the award as a result of our multi-year commitment to purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours of...
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tagged: carbon reduction, CSR, energy savings, EPA, Global eSustainability Initiative, Green Power, Intel Core, renewable energy, Smart 2020, solar, sustainability
Carbon Negative?
posted by Gary Niekerk on September 22, 2008 at CSR@Intel
I spoke last week on a panel session on, “Aligning Carbon Footprint Marketing Messages & Communications With Business Strategy”. It was a fun and engaging discussion as we talked about the inherent challenges in making statements such as “Carbon Neutral”...
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tagged: carbon footprint, carbon negative, carbon neutral, CSR, sustainability
A Decade of Sustainability Leadership
posted by Gary Niekerk on September 04, 2008 at CSR@Intel
I don’t like to be “promotional” in my blog, but today Intel and our employees have something to cheer about. Today we learned that Intel Corporation was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) for the 10th straight year....
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tagged: DJSI, dow jones sustainability index, Leadership, sustainability
CSR for CFO's
posted by Dave Stangis on June 05, 2008 at CSR@Intel
It’s been pretty clear to me that the concept of CSR as a business innovation tool and differentiator among companies is important to more c-suite executives than just the CEO. I’ve had some conversations over the past year with everyone...
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tagged: Al Gore, CFO, CSR, Evanta, Houston, Intel, sustainability
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