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Posted onAugust 18, 2020August 18, 2020Purpose

What’s the Environmental Impact of that Gadget? Logitech Will Tell You

by Heather Clancy

Let me be transparent about something. I can’t remember a busier summer for announcements related to corporate sustainability initiatives. I’m not complaining, I’m encouraged. That is why it has taken me more than two months to process what I’d like to say about an intriguing…

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Posted onAugust 1, 2020Purpose

HP Gets Specific About Nixing Single-Use Plastic

by Heather Clancy

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…

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Posted onMay 17, 2020May 19, 2020Purpose

HP Is Using Ocean-bound Plastics in its Latest Chromebook

by Heather Clancy

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…

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Posted onApril 11, 2020May 20, 2020Technology

The Apple+Google Deal Is Both Amazing and Terrifying

by Heather Clancy

As of yesterday, there were 55 “presumptive positive” cases of COVID-19 in my small Northern New Jersey town. I don’t know who my ailing neighbors are, and that gives me some comfort that I haven’t been exposed to the virus — because if I had…

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Posted onApril 5, 2020April 5, 2020Entrepreneurship

I Love This Logistics Startup’s COVID-19 Pivot

by Heather Clancy

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…

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Posted onMarch 29, 2020March 29, 2020Purpose

Yes, there’s an app for that: Apple releases COVID-19 resource

by Heather Clancy

Greetings from Bergen County in New Jersey, where my socially-isolated spirits have been raised by my afternoon session in the garden. I just spent some time perusing the news for positive news related to the coronavirus crisis, and came across this update from Apple: it…

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Posted onMarch 22, 2020May 20, 2020Entrepreneurship

It’s time for tech companies to show their conscience

by Heather Clancy

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…

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Posted onJanuary 5, 2020May 23, 2020Sustainability

No Amazon, Now Is Not the Time to Be Quiet About Climate Change

by Heather Clancy

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…

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Posted onAugust 16, 2019August 16, 2019Entrepreneurship

Catch Me On TV (DisrupTV, That Is)

by Heather Clancy

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…

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Posted onFebruary 11, 2019May 20, 2020Energy

SolarCity Founders Charge Up African Energy Venture

by Heather Clancy

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…

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Heather Clancy is an award-winning journalist specializing in transformative technology and climate tech. As editorial director for GreenBiz.com, she chronicles the role of technology in decarbonization and business innovation meant to catalyze a low-carbon economy. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times.

She co-authored the Amazon best-seller for entrepreneurs, Niche Down, How to Become Legendary By Being Different.

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