“sustainability” Tag

06/05/2008: CSR for CFO’s

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: algore, cfo, csr, evanta, houston, intel, sustainability

05/30/2008: Paying a visit to my professional roots

Next week I’ll be up in Minneapolis to deliver a few presentations at the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s annual conference. I think I’ve mentioned in this blog before that my path to CSR/Sustainability went through the areas of environmental engineering...

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Tagged: aihce, csr, disasterrecovery, environmental, health, industrialhygiene, safety, sustainability

05/20/2008: With Leadership Comes Responsibility

I’ve always liked this saying, but what does it really mean for a company? I know what it means to me personally, but let’s try to translate that to a company with more than 85.000 employees in close to 50...

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Tagged: citizenship, corporateresponsibilityreport, csr, g3, greenpower, intel, intelteach, stangis, supplychain, sustainability, volunteerism, wellness

05/19/2008: It May be easy being Green, but speaking about it is NOT

I presented at a small conference on Corporate Sustainability in San Francisco earlier this month on the challenges of marketing and communicating “green”. The presentation was a lot of fun and the audience was very engaged—we all seemed to have...

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Tagged: bottlewater, csr, csrcommunications, green, greenwashing, sustainability

05/15/2008: It’s the little things, really

My boss’ boss sent us all an email. The content was important and I read it with interest, but what really caught my attention was this little graphic and tagline at the bottom:...

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Tagged: act, csr, graphic, green, intel, sustainability

04/24/2008: Two Questions

We don’t get too many comments to most of our posts, but I hope this one is a little different. I’m doing some personal “mapping” of the future and considering we have about 10K CSR stakeholders poking around this blog...

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Tagged: climatechange, csr, future, intel, opensource, sustainability

04/22/2008: Earth Day, Every Day.

How many Earth Day blogs will there be? For me, this intuitively seems one of the worst days to be blogging considering the sheer number of posts with “Earth Day” in the title. However, considering everything going on, I’d be...

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Tagged: csr, earthday, employee, intel, sustainability

04/16/2008: Can Sustainability, Green or CSR Survive a Recession?

I’ve seen this question quite a bit lately in all sorts of trade and business press. While I suppose it makes an interesting headline to some, the question makes absolutely no sense to me. It might be fair to ask...

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Tagged: csr, environmentalleader, ethicalcorp, green, greenbiz, intel, recession, sun, sustainability

04/10/2008: Making a Conference Attendance “Stick”

This year’s Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (BCCCC) Conference just wrapped up this week. It was held in Boston this year, but they try to jump coasts each year. Next year it’s in San Francisco....

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Tagged: amrresearch, bcccc, ceres, cisco, csr, intel, madetostick, microsoft, scientificamerican, sustainability

04/02/2008: The 2nd Generation Classmate PC - Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai

Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF) is an event that is held a couple of times a year in different geographies. These are big events with thousands of industry partners and lots of press. We make several product announcements over the course...

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Tagged: classmatepc, cmpc, csr, idf, idf2008, intel, stangis, sustainability, worldahead

03/21/2008: The Role of the Supply Chain In CSR

I made my way to San Francisco Wednesday evening to attend Intel’s materials Supplier Day. I’ve been hearing about Supplier Day for more than 10 years in my career at Intel. I’ve even been writing about it for several years...

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Tagged: andybryant, csr, intel, supplychain, sustainability, thecro

03/12/2008: STS, SSP, CSR, SE, IQ, SAT, DC

Is this some kind of new code to crack? No, these are just a few of the acronyms that come to mind as I return from the Intel Science Talent Search (STS) held in Washington D.C. Tuesday night....

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Tagged: csr, fuelcells, intel, socialentrepreneurship, ssp, sts, sustainability

03/09/2008: Meeting with Today’s Leaders as well as some of Tomorrow’s

I don’t always do as much as I’d like to do on the subjects of Sustainability or CSR in my (current) home state of Arizona, but this week was different....

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Tagged: azbas, csr, dial, ecoedge, hbr, intel, stangis, sustainability, thebiosphererules, thunderbird, unruh, usbcsd

02/22/2008: Technology with the Environment in Mind

This is the title of our most recent Intel Technology Journal, a quarterly online publication that discusses R&D and technology trends at Intel. The February issue highlights a few of our environmental initiatives from products and manufacturing to an interesting...

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Tagged: environment, environmental, intel, sustainability, sustainable, technology

02/05/2008: Innovation, National Competitiveness and Values-based Business

While out running errands one evening this week, I had the radio on – as usual. It’s either set between the local talk station and NPR. I might have been in my car for a total of 10 min, but...

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Tagged: americatheprincipled, bancoreal, cemex, csr, diageo, intel, lisamullins, rosabethmosskanter, sustainability, theworld, uscompetitiveness

01/23/2008: Davos Brings out New Sustainability Rankings and Ratings

Each year about this time a couple of new sustainability ratings get a refresh. For the fourth year in a row, Corporate Knights has announced the 100 most sustainable corporations in the world in conjunction with the World Economic Forum...

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Tagged: corporateknights, davos, global100, innovest, intel, sustainability, sustainableassetmanagement, wef

12/24/2007: A Few End-Of-The-Year CSR Predictions

Two things seem to be the staple of stories this time of year. Either a best/worst countdown of the last year, or a set of predictions for the new year. CSR is all about the latter, so I think we...

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Tagged: csr, g3, green, infoworld, intel, newyear, predictions, sustainability

11/11/2007: Sustainability Grab Bag…From Salmon Farming to Sunflowers

So, what do the Tech Awards, Net Impact, socially responsible investors, Fab 32, Penryn, and sunflowers have in common? Not much other than the fact that you find them all in this short blog post and they are all part...

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Tagged: 45nm, fundacionterram, netimpact, penryn, sriintherockies, sustainability, thetechawards

10/24/2007: What do seat belts have to do with sustainability?

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...

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Tagged: future, model, seatbelts, sustainability

10/06/2007: CSR Down Under

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...

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Tagged: australia, boardroom, clusters, csr, portland, sustainability, sydney

09/07/2007: The Latest Global Sustainability Index

It’s not often that a sound business and sustainability/CSR strategy turns into something that 90,000 people can be personally proud of. Today is one of those times. The annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) were published this week for 2007/2008....

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Tagged: csr, dowjones, intel, investment, sectorleader, sri, sustainability

06/14/2007: Welcome to CSR@Intel

I’ve thought about a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) blog for a few years now. I still remember sitting in the launch meeting for the Global Reporting Initiative in 1997 in London….wondering if this CSR/Sustainability concept was just common sense or...

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Tagged: corporatesocialresponsibility, csr, ehs, globalreportinginitiative, gri, intel, socialresponsibility, sri, stakeholder, stangis, sustainability