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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/05/2010

by Tom Raftery on March 5, 2010 · 2 comments

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Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:

HP Named No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List
HP today was ranked No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s (formerly known as CRO Magazine) 11th annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List.
Climbing from fifth place in last year’s rankings, HP gained the [...]

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15 Green Predictions for 2010

by Tom Raftery on December 17, 2009 · 16 comments

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It is the end of the year – that time of year when everyone rolls out their X Predictions for 2010 post and, in that regard, GreenMonk is not going to be any different!
Well , maybe slightly different, some of the following predictions are more like hopes and aspirations on my part [...]

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June 1st GreenMonk Energy and Sustainability show

by Tom Raftery on June 1, 2009 · 3 comments

in GreenMonkTV, energy, sustainability, video

Had a great show today with plenty of links and feedback from viewers – here is the transcript from the show.
03:31 Tom Raftery: Can anyone see/hear me?
03:31 cgarvey: A/V all good
03:31 mikethebee: Vid and auio ok
03:32 mikethebee: my typing rubbish
03:33 Tom Raftery: http://environment.uk.msn.com/news/headlines/article.aspx?cp-documentid=147696467
03:35 Tom Raftery: http://planetark.org/ark/53151
03:37 Tom Raftery: http://www.coolerado.com/news/
03:38 Tom Raftery: http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/26/oil-giant-shell-on-trial-for-nigerian-environmentalist-saro-wiwas-execution/
03:39 Tom Raftery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro_Wiwa
03:40 [...]

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I see Google have published an article o…

by Tom Raftery on May 7, 2009 · 5 comments

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I see Google have published an article on their ambitions to achieve carbon neutrailty . It is not a bad piece (if you ignore the strong emphasis on offsets).
However, what is supremely disappointing is Google’s complete lack of any attempt at Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting. Most significant IT companies have a CSR site with [...]

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April 13th GreenMonk Energy and Sustainability show

by Tom Raftery on April 13, 2009 · 5 comments

in GreenMonkTV, video

Here is a recording of today’s GreenMonk Energy and Sustainability show complete with the chatstream below:

04:31 TomRaftery : About to kick off
04:32 TomRaftery : Can you see & hear me ok?
04:33 TomRaftery : Hello?
04:33 ustreamer-36203 : Hi Tom
04:33 ustreamer-36203 : Andrew Newton of APEsphere here
04:34 ustreamer-36203 : yep, all good
[...]

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SAP’s Environmental Health and Safety Management solution

by Tom Raftery on March 26, 2009 · 11 comments

in GreenMonkTV, sustainability

In the third part of my interview with SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Peter Graf, we discuss SAP’s Environmental Health and Safety Management solution.
Why is this important? Several reasons:
– employee health and safety,
– compliance with constantly changing EHS regulations (REACH, and WEEE for example),
– increasing importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and from [...]

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Corporate Social Responsibility – tech companies reviewed!

by Tom Raftery on January 27, 2009 · 4 comments

in Uncategorized, sustainability

Original photo by ATIS547
According to its Wikipedia definition, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
is a concept whereby organizations consider the interests of society by taking responsibility for the impact of their activities on customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, communities and other stakeholders, as well as the environment. This obligation is seen to extend beyond the statutory obligation [...]

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GreenMonk talks Sustainability with IBM’s Stan Litow

by Tom Raftery on December 2, 2008 · 0 comments

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[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/redmonk/StanLitowPodcast.mp3]
My guest on this podcast is Stan Litow. Stan is IBM’s VP for Corporate Affairs and Corporate Citizenship.
IBM recently issued their 2008 Corporate Responsibility Report. It is an extremely interesting, very comprehensive overview of IBM’s work in this space. You can download the entire report here (PDF warning!).
Having gone through the report, [...]

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Sustainability/Energy Agenda Accelerates

by monkchips on May 1, 2008 · 4 comments

in SAP, sustainability

People ask about greenwashing and vendor hypocrisy. I don’t see it like that. If resources are being applied to managing electricity demand, or addressing broader sustainability issues, that is all to the good. The space is heating up almost as fast as the planet.
Today IBM announced a swathe of services and tools, and is clearly [...]

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