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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…