Tag: sustainability

• Taking Smart and Green to a New Level Meeting LEED green building standards is no small task, but, in 2015, we drew a line in the sand that all new Intel buildings would meet a minimum LEED Gold certification. But when planning began for SRR3, which would be located on our existing Intel campus in India, we raised the bar and had Platinum in our sights. Once we...
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• Our Commitment to Restore 100% of our Water Use It goes without saying that water is a critical natural resource. It’s also an essential element of our semiconductor manufacturing process. As such, we have focused on sustainable water management for close to two decades, and just last year, we conserved 4.6 billion gallons of water – enough to fill almost 7000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Since 1998, Intel has invested...
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• Building a Better World is Our Business: Intel’s 2016 CSR Report Today, we released Intel’s 2016 Corporate Responsibility Report, a comprehensive review of our approach to corporate responsibility and  performance in key areas including environmental sustainability, supply chain responsibility, diversity and inclusion, and social impact. As you’ll see in the report, we made some important progress last year. Some of the highlights: Environmental Sustainability: For the ninth year running, Intel is America’s largest...
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• Reducing, Reusing, Recycling Water at Intel In celebration of Earth Month, we are highlighting employees who are champions of sustainability and help make every day Earth Day at Intel. We have a long-standing commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility that is made possible by harnessing the power of people and technology. Very few ambitious ideas come to life without the immense time and energy of dedicated...
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• Helping Employees to Make Sustainable Choices In celebration of Earth Month, we are highlighting employees who are champions of sustainability and help make every day Earth Day at Intel. We have a long-standing commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility that is made possible by harnessing the power of people and technology. At Intel, Earth Day Every Day is part of our DNA. We empower our employees...
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• Making Earth Day Every Day Earth day is just around the corner and as I reflect on my past 21 years at Intel, one thing has remained constant: a focus on the environment is in our DNA. I remember a quote in our inaugural Environmental, Health, and Safety Report in January 1995 by Gordon Moore, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel “We need to continually...
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• Smart, Green and Connected: Digital Efficiency Smart, Green and Connected Everywhere we look these days we see smart devices, on your wrist, in your home and your car to name a few. Smart technologies fuel innovation, by connecting the “things” that were never connected before, providing to new data insights that translate to increased productivity and improved resource management.  The number of Internet of Things (IoT)...
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• Climate Change – It’s Time for Action November marks the 20th anniversary of my tenure with Intel. As I look back it’s amazing and humbling to realize how quickly time moves on both in our personal and professional lives. My first job at Intel was to build air emissions models for our newest technology – Intel’s state-of-the-art Pentium® products. A key driver behind the effort was to...
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• A Simple Idea – Agriculture, Water and the Internet of Things I live in one of the most arid regions in the world – the Southwestern United States. Our region is in a record drought, and water scarcity is top of mind for people living here in Arizona. Because I work on sustainability issues at Intel, I know the largest user of water in our region is the agriculture sector, and...
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• 10 Tips for a Sustainability Intrapreneur This blog was posted on behalf of Gopi Krishnan, a Systems Engineer in the Internet of Things Group at Intel.   He is passionate about resource conservation and considers himself a sustainability “intrapreneur” by engaging and collaborating with other employees to drive grass roots sustainability focused projects within the company. He holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder....
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