It’s been a cranky sort of week, so I decide to write about something that will make me uncranky — although I’m not exactly sure when I’ll be able to post this article, since my internet service provider Optimum has been asleep at the wheel for three days now. Can…
Category: Sustainability
Purpose
HP Gets Specific About Nixing Single-Use Plastic
We’re wrapping up what I affectionately refer to as corporate social responsibility report season, during which I am deluged on an almost daily basis with lengthy digital documents packed with updates about corporate sustainability initiatives. I almost never write about these things, despite all the well-meaning pitches requesting this. Sorry…
Entrepreneurship
Danish Jewelry Maker Pandora Pledges Not to Buy Newly Mined Silver and Gold
Most of us probably don’t think of mining as an earth-friendly process, so addressing it is one of the most important — and specific — things that jewelry companies can do to reduce their carbon footprint. That’s the motivation behind Danish company Pandora’s pledge in early June to start using…
Purpose
HP Is Using Ocean-bound Plastics in its Latest Chromebook
Many, many, many big companies have made commitments to reducing the flow of plastics into the oceans. HP Inc. is now using materials have been recovered through its four-year-old initiative in Haiti in at least four different product line. It’s only a teeny-tiny bit, but still. The latest entry is…
Entrepreneurship
I Love This Logistics Startup’s COVID-19 Pivot
As we are all beginning to discover, the complicated science of logistics doesn’t always respond so well to unknown variables. The extreme household toilet paper shortage is only partially due to panic buying — the reality is that people really DO need more of the stuff, with everyone confined to…
Entrepreneurship
It’s time for tech companies to show their conscience
If my 30-something-years experience as a journalist holds true, this will be the week many U.S. tech companies emerge from the relative radio silence that has characterized their public response to economic upheaval being wreaked by coronavirus to talk about how they plan to help — not just with immediate…
No Amazon, Now Is Not the Time to Be Quiet About Climate Change
Last spring, a group of Amazonians — collectively known as Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) — earned national headlines with their very vocal and very public advocacy for meaningful climate action. Their employer, they argued, had a responsibility to be more agressive about reducing its footprint and to be…
I Knew This Podcast Powerhouse When He Was ‘Just’ a Marketing Powerhouse
Over the past six months, my long-time friend Christopher Lochhead — the same guy who convinced me I COULD write a book, resulting in the July 2018 release of our book about entrepreneurship, Niche Down — has become a totally-on-fire host of not one but TWO podcasts. They’re related, of…
Entrepreneurship
Catch Me On TV (DisrupTV, That Is)
Whenever I need a crash course in keeping a message succinct, Ray Wang (with Constellation Research) and Vala Afshar (avec Salesforce) drop in to give me a lesson — and to remind me that I tend to run off at the mouth sometimes! Here’s our latest segment for DisrupTV, in…
Energy
SolarCity Founders Charge Up African Energy Venture
This article is drawn from the Energy Weekly newsletter, running Thursdays. Subscribe here. The co-founders of SolarCity, Lyndon Rive and Peter Rive, are back on the grid. The brothers, who left their former solar energy services company in mid-2017 after it became part of the Tesla Energy division, were this week…